Strip the gradients, the cards, the icons. If the type alone can’t carry the page, no amount of decoration will save it.
Most interfaces are text. Not "mostly text" — text, interrupted occasionally by an image. Which means most interface design is typography, whether the designer admits it or not. The squint test Squint at your page until you can’t read it. Can you still tell what matters most? Hierarchy should survive blur — through size, weight, and space, not color-coding and boxes. If everything is medium-sized and medium-bold, you haven’t designed the page; you’ve typed on it. Scale is cheap drama The least expensive way to make a page feel designed is to let the type get big — genuinely big, 4-to-8x body size for the thing that matters — and then hold everything else back. Contrast in scale reads as confidence. Twelve competing font sizes read as panic.