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Growth7 min readACT Agency Editorial

The startup website redesign checklist

What to clarify before design starts—from audience and messaging to conversion paths and launch readiness.

Practical thinking for ambitious teams

Redesigning a website is easiest when the team agrees on the business problem before debating colours, layouts or animation.

The short version

What to clarify before design starts—from audience and messaging to conversion paths and launch readiness.

01

Clarify the audience

Name the primary buyer, the situation that brings them to the site and the doubts they need resolved. If every audience is equally important, the message usually becomes generic.

02

Audit the current journey

Review which pages attract visits, where users leave and which enquiries are actually valuable. Keep what works. A redesign should improve the journey, not erase useful signals for the sake of novelty.

03

Prepare for launch

Assign content owners, collect real proof, confirm analytics, test forms, redirect old URLs and review the site on real phones. A beautiful design only becomes valuable when the operational details are ready.

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