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Aggressive websites overpromise and underperform. Calm ones win the meeting.

Ines Bello

Design Director

The quiet website converts

Every extra badge, ribbon and gradient on a homepage is a request for attention the visitor did not choose to grant.

What quiet actually means

Quiet is not empty. Quiet is edited. It is the confidence to remove the thing that only exists because someone once said "we should probably say something about this too."

A homepage is a promise you can keep in 30 seconds. Everything else is a footnote.

The B2B sites that convert the best in 2026 read like a well-argued essay. Not because essays are trendy — because they respect the reader.

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Ines Bello

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Ines Bello

Design Director

Editorial obsessive. Awwwards jury 2024.

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