Salt & Stone
Branding & web · Nordics · 2024

Salt & Stone

The photography was beautiful and nothing sold. We turned the gallery into a shop in three weeks and conversion went up four times on the same catalogue.

Client
Salt & Stone
Market
Denmark
Engagement
Branding & web
Fee
€1,750
Duration
3 weeks
Shipped
November 2024
01

The problem

Salt & Stone made the best stoneware in Jutland and sold almost none of it online. The site was a full-bleed gallery: enormous photographs, no prices, a shop link in the footer.

Visitors treated it as a portfolio because it was built like one. Average time on site was high, which everybody read as a good sign. It was people looking, not buying.

02

The decision

We put the price on the photograph. That was the argument for a week — the founder felt it cheapened the work, and it is the single change that moved the number.

The rest was subtraction: one product grid instead of five collections, stock shown honestly, and a checkout that stopped asking for an account before it asked for money.

PositioningIdentityE-commerce designFront-end build
03

What changed on screen

01 · Product grid
Product grid — price, stock and glaze on the card. No hover-to-reveal, no lightbox.
02 · Product page
Product page — one photograph, one paragraph, one button. The kiln notes moved below the fold.
03 · Checkout
Checkout — guest by default; the account offer moved to the confirmation screen.
04 · Identity
Identity — a wordmark that survives being stamped into wet clay at 8mm.
04

Result

Measured 120 days post-launch vs. the 120 days before
Conversion rate
Same catalogue, same photography, same traffic.
3
Weeks
Positioning to launched shop.
−34%
Checkout drop-off
After guest checkout became the default.
+61%
Average order value
Sets outsold single pieces once prices were visible.
“Putting the price on the picture felt like a betrayal for about a week. Then it paid for the whole project.”
Founder, Salt & Stone · Aarhus
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