Luxury web design mistakes we continued to see in 2022

In 1997, the internet became mainstream. Thirteen years later, in 2010, significant technologies such as the iPad and HTML5 were released. So 2010 was approximately half of the world wide web’s lifetime ago.

In that time, a wealth of data and trend information has been collected to better inform our design decisions for luxury brands.

However, many luxury brands still make the same mistakes from the Web 2.0 revolution. Errors that we’ve known for years impact not only website usability but impact overall brand performance.

Why? There is a wealth of knowledge out there now, which means luxury web design is no longer a guessing game. It’s no longer based on the opinions of a boardroom. Instead, it’s scientific, factual and – almost always – objectively correct.

If you’re a luxury brand looking to refresh your website in 2023, these are the top mistakes you should avoid.

Put bluntly; your site could be more memorable, unique, and exciting. If your website needs to improve in these areas, then your brand, product, and business probably do too. But, unfortunately, you’re just another brand competing in an increasingly crowded market.

That’s the problem – these things were ok in 2010, as no one knew better. There needed to be more research to understand what did and didn’t work. But 13 years later, why would you make a mistake that we now know can damage both your brand and your online conversion?

You need to dive deeper to understand the impact. Attention to detail, for example, could be some sloppy alignment, but it could also be poor loading. This can cause your layout to shift as the page loads – just as a user gets ready to ‘click’, the links are just 100 pixels lower.

There’s also a paradox here. A luxury website should be unique and stand above its competitors. But we also need to follow the principle of Jakobs Law. That is, people spend more time on other websites than on yours, so people expect your website to work the same as everyone else’s.

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