Hooking international anglers with a sharper online shopMustad Fishing

Industry

Sporting goods & outdoor lifestyle

Timeline

3 weeks

Impact

+74% uplift in average cart value

One fishing giant, three brands, and a messy UX net

Mustad is one of the biggest names in fishing gear — with a legacy stretching back over a century and a product catalog deep enough to make any angler drool. But their website? Let’s just say it wasn’t quite the catch they’d hoped for.

They came to us with a problem:

  • Three brands (Mustad, TUF-Line, LIVETARGET)
  • One scattered design system
  • Inconsistent user experience across products, regions, and devices
  • And a growing list of UX and UI bugs that were scaring off serious customers

Mustad needed a consistent yet distinctive design setup across all their fishing brands — one that worked on desktop and mobile, looked premium, and didn’t make users rage-click their way out of the store.

“We like the feeling of the site... but it’s just not working”

That’s the polite version of what we heard on the kickoff call.

From bloated menus to broken filters, the team knew the user experience wasn’t helping sales.

Customers couldn’t find what they wanted.
Navigation was clunky.
And don’t even ask about the mobile multibrand menu — unless you enjoy endless dropdowns.

The product pages were all over the place. One product had a zoomable gallery. Another had none. Some showed lifestyle shots, others technical specs. The cart felt like an afterthought.

There were wishlist buttons, but they looked like they’d been fished out of 2008.
There were product reviews… somewhere.
And regional switching? Good luck.

But Mustad didn’t just want a prettier site. They needed structure. Logic. A system that could support future growth without another messy rebuild.

Our solution

One design skeleton. Three distinct experiences.

We rolled up our sleeves, grabbed the rods (metaphorically), and got to work.

Here’s what we did — and why it worked:

We created one shared design system
A consistent foundation across all three brands — Mustad, TUF-Line, and LIVETARGET. Same structure, different personalities. Think Netflix profiles for fishing brands.
Each brand got its own:

  • Icon style
  • Typography and color palette
  • Visual tone

But the underlying UX logic? Identical. So when customers moved between brands, it felt natural — not like three different websites duct-taped together.

We redesigned 9 key layouts

Desktop and mobile. From the homepage down to the FAQ and account screens.
That included:

  1. Homepage
  2. Product collection page
  3. Product detail
  4. Blog/article overview
  5. Blog detail
  6. Profile dashboard
  7. Order history
  8. Marketing settings
  9. FAQ

We added real usability features:

  • Circle swatches to select product variants (especially for Hair Jigs)
  • Wishlist buttons with a ‘like’ feel, not a B2B relic
  • Filter sections that don’t make you cry
  • A product image system that separates lifestyle from technical shots — finally
  • And a review module that doesn’t feel like it was borrowed from a Word doc
We optimized for mobile first

No more fullscreen pop-up menus. No clunky regional switching. Just a fast, frictionless shopping experience for users on the go.

We handed off dev-ready Adobe XD files

No fluff. No mystery layers. Pixel-perfect designs, annotated, ready to build. We worked within their tech setup — they didn’t need us for development, but we made sure the designs wouldn’t cause pain during implementation.

Result: A multibrand platform that actually works like one

The new Mustad site (and its sibling brands) now do what they’re supposed to:
Sell gear, not confuse users.

The brand feels modern without losing its legacy.
Product pages make sense.
The design is no longer fighting the customer journey.

Their team approved the final delivery without major revisions — and they’ve since come back to us with more work.

Want your site to stop working against you?

Let’s be blunt: if your eCommerce design feels hacked together, your users know it — and your sales show it.

We’ll tell you what’s holding your store back — in plain language.
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