The wrong layer

When something feels off, it's tempting to reach for a new colour. It's almost never the colour.

The fastest way to make a page feel "designed" is to fix what's actually wrong: the order of the content, the way it groups, the rhythm between blocks. Style can polish a structure that already works. It cannot save one that doesn't.

Try this before you redesign

Strip the page to plain HTML. No fonts, no spacing tricks, no colours. If the page still leads you through it in the right order, the structure is sound and the rest is mostly taste. If it feels lost, no amount of styling will rescue it.

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Three small habits

First, write the page as a single column of content before opening the design tool. Second, group only what genuinely belongs together. Third, give the most important thing the most space — not the most decoration.

None of this is new. It just keeps being true.