Case study — Fine Jewellery

Aurora Jewels: the build that paid for itself.

Aurora Jewels came to us as fine jewellery operators in Sydney, Australia with a problem that was costing them weekly. The program below is what moved their headline number: +92% lookbook sessions.

Aurora Jewels — hero visual

Fig. 01 — Art Direction + UISydney, Australia

Client
Aurora Jewels
Year
2025
Industry
Fine Jewellery
Location
Sydney, Australia
01

The challenge

Research told the uncomfortable story: prospects compared them against louder competitors and rated them 'smaller' despite superior service. Perception was capping pricing power.

The redesign brief: look like the company they already were, and make every customer touchpoint say it consistently.

02

The approach

Discovery started with users, not artboards: session replays, support-ticket archaeology and five moderated tests to find where trust leaked and hierarchy failed.

We rebuilt the interface on a tokenised system — one type ramp, three elevations, one interaction language — then validated with the same tests, measuring completion and confidence side by side.

Rollout covered every surface customers actually touch — site, product UI, email, documents, social — sequenced so the launch felt like an upgrade, not a costume change.

  • Two structured revision rounds per milestone
  • Logo suite, palette, typography and imagery rules as a system file
  • Full-state design: empty, error, loading and long-content variants
  • Brand guidelines a stranger could ship on-brand assets from
03

The results

R—01 +44% Trial signups post-launch
R—02 +38% Brand recall in follow-up surveys
R—03 -47% Design-to-dev questions
R—04 2.1x Time on key product screens
For the first time, the website looks like the product feels. Prospects stopped underestimating us in the first call.Hannah Brooks — Founder, Aurora Jewels
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