Ever wondered what works for your store?
Have you copied a competitor or followed the advice of someone else, only to watch your conversion rate drop?
Ever wondered whether to re-theme or stick with what you have?
Not sure of what metrics to measure on your store?
Or have you watched your customers rage-click on your store, but been unsure of the solution?
And finally, have you watched your profit slowly, steadily nosedive, and not known what to do about it?
You’re not alone.
Changing your store is risky. It’s hard to understand “what works” at any given time. You don’t know what to change, you don’t know what to change it to, and you don’t know what order to do anything in. Everyone wants the comfort of confidence, but nobody seems to know how to find it.
But what if clarity were possible? What if you could find out “what works” for your store – before everyone else did? What if you could understand what your customers were thinking – and use that knowledge to grow your business?
What would it be like to act with intention & confidence?
Profitable clarity is possible.
I think it’s possible for stores to have clarity in their decision-making, primarily because the whole point of my job is to provide that for other people. I’ve helped people understand & respond to their customers’ needs for 17 years. When my consultancy first started solving expensive problems for online stores, I was surprised at two things.
First, there was an extremely high amount of opportunity. It was easy to figure out what was going wrong. It was easy to research what to do. It was easy to run experiments that got statistically significant results. We improved things quickly & profitably, when we were given a chance to show off what we do.
Second, though, and far more importantly, there wasn’t a high level of sophistication around the tech parts of the industry. People could make great products and promote the value, sure, but they didn’t view their online stores as the tech companies that they were. People didn’t understand code well. People didn’t know how to critique new design effectively.
In the process, we wrote an evergreen, influential book, Value-Based Design, that teaches people how to focus their design practices on the generation of outsize economic value. But we also found that there were issues specific to stores that were going overlooked, and both store owners & other design practitioners might need more help understanding what to do first.
So, we solved this the only way we know how: by writing another book. Introducing Store Design, the only way to learn a durable, evergreen design process in contemporary ecommerce.
Store design is provably valuable.
Design is both understood as economically important and widely illegible within ecommerce. This book seeks to demystify a practice that people often misinterpret as simply visual treatments or watered-down “UX”. In it, you’ll learn what design really is, how it can be practiced, and how to measure its impact. In doing so, you’ll understand how to discover what’s leaking revenue, prioritize what to do first, and act on it. If you follow what we teach you, expect to start generating profit within a couple of months.
We’re not the sort of business that talks about design from a lofty perch. As a practicing consultancy, Store Design is informed by years of hands-on experience getting results for businesses of all sizes.The culmination of a series of sold-out zines on proven profitable design techniques, Store Design teaches practitioners & store owners alike a new way of thinking about your store: from the perspective of your customers.
Your author.
I’m Nick Disabato, a designer and writer from Chicago. I’m the author of Cadence & Slang and Value-Based Design. Over the past 17 years, I’ve worked for great clients like The Wirecutter, Gravitytank, Planet of the Vapes, New Music USA, Evolve Skateboards, and Chicago Magazine. I look like that drawing to the right, there. You can read a longer bio if you’re still curious.
Praise for our previous books.
We’ve been creating useful, evergreen tools for the tech industry for 14 years. People seem to like them.
For example, Kurt Elster, CEO of Ethercycle:
After working in web design for a decade, I still found myself having “ah-ha” moments while reading Nick’s book. Reading and internalizing Value-Based Design could very well be the difference between being a good designer and a great designer.
NextGrid’s Doug Williams:
Cadence & Slang is beautiful & insightful… a must read for anyone that designs interfaces for humans.
Test Triggers’ Josh Frank:
When you’re responsible for an ecommerce business’s success, it can be easy to slip into executing tactics and “growth hacks” looking for the next big thing. The practical and systematic approach outlined in Value-Based Design is the antidote we all need. Nick’s experience and no-fluff writing style make this an oft-visited resource for me. This book should come packaged with a bulk pack of highlighters.
Help us help you.
Store Design should be out by the end of 2023, and while we have blown a publishing deadline precisely never, this will be our first publishing rodeo post-Bad Times®, so we beg your patience in case the deadline slips.
Store Design is exclusively a print book – and like all of our books, it will be worth the paper it’s printed on. Once it sells out, it sells out.
And that’s it! Thanks for reading, and I hope you have an awesome day.
— Nick Disabato
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