Notes on making the web.

Essays on design, performance, eCommerce and the craft of building things that last. Written by the people who do the work.

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DESIGN · NOV 18, 2026 · 6 MIN

How we choose typography for a project.

Type sets the temperature of a brand. Here's our practical workflow — pairings, sizes, contrast — without the precious-ness.

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DEVELOPMENT · NOV 04, 2026 · 9 MIN

The Core Web Vitals checklist we actually use.

What we measure, what we ignore, and the five fixes that move LCP and CLS the most for the least effort.

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+184% YEAR-OVER-YEAR Organic traffic, 12 mo.
ECOMMERCE · OCT 21, 2026 · 11 MIN

Five product-page patterns that lift conversion.

Drawn from 40 store launches. Boring fundamentals, well executed, beat clever ideas every single time.

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SEO · OCT 07, 2026 · 7 MIN

Local SEO is mostly just doing the basics.

Citations, schema, location pages, reviews. We unpack what to actually do — in what order — for a small Australian business.

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DESIGN · SEP 22, 2026 · 5 MIN

Building a design system in a single afternoon.

You don't need 200 components. You need three font sizes, four colours and a spacing scale. Here's the template we start from.

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26 YEARS · 200+ PROJECTS "We don't redesign websites. We rebuild relationships." — SAGAR · FOUNDER
STUDIO · SEP 02, 2026 · 4 MIN

What 26 years has taught us about clients.

The relationships outlast the projects. A short reflection on what we've learned about working well with people, over a long time.

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ECOMMERCE · AUG 18, 2026 · 8 MIN

The cart abandonment problem nobody talks about.

It's not the form. It's not the shipping cost. It's the moment at the top of the page where trust is either established or lost.

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WordPress, but fast. $ wp cli optimise › removing emoji.js › deferring jQuery › inlining critical CSS › preloading webfonts › converting to webp → LCP 4.2s → 1.1s
DEVELOPMENT · AUG 02, 2026 · 12 MIN

How we cut WordPress LCP from 4.2s to 1.1s.

A walk-through of the actual changes we made on a real client project — what worked, what didn't, what we'd do again.

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DESIGN · JUL 18, 2026 · 6 MIN

Stop arguing about border-radius.

How a single design token quietly carries half your brand voice — and why we set ours once and never touch it.

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