Case Study
Custom Theme & Checkout Experience
Hyvä-grade performance with a design system that keeps brand, accessibility, and Core Web Vitals in lockstep across seasonal drops.
Metric: 95+ PageSpeed, mobile-first
HyväTailwindAlpine.jsRedisCheckout UX
What we were solving
Legacy theme debt slowed releases and hurt mobile conversion. The brand needed a fast, accessible checkout and a design system that could refresh without rewrites.
Approach
We rebuilt with Hyvä and a token-driven design system so UX, speed, and accessibility stay aligned. Every component shipped with performance budgets and analytics hooks.
- Atomic components mapped to design tokens for rapid seasonal updates.
- Performance gates for LCP/CLS on every PR; strict image and font loading budgets.
- Checkout UX experiments with A/B-friendly toggles and analytics events pre-wired.
- Accessibility baked in: ARIA, focus states, color contrast, and keyboard flows.
Results & lessons
Reduced mobile drop-off, improved checkout completion, and delivered a theme ready for continuous deployment without sacrificing UX or speed. Schema, alt text, and heading hierarchy kept SEO healthy while performance stayed green.
- Token-driven UI library for product cards, PDP modules, and checkout steps.
- Lean markup, defer/async scripts, and optimized hydration for Hyvä.
- Schema-ready blocks for PDP, breadcrumbs, and FAQs; internal linking patterns.
- Keyboard-first flows with visible focus and reduced-motion options.