The Geometry of Emotions

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📐 The Conversion Geometry of Emotion: How to Design PDPs That Guide, Not Overwhelm

Let’s get real—most product pages are just digital laundry lists. They cram in every detail a customer might want to know, then cross fingers and hope for a sale.

But the best brands?

They don’t just design product pages. They orchestrate emotional journeys.

Because people don’t scroll for specs. They scroll for certainty. And great pages deliver it—one section at a time.

🚀 The 5-Stage Emotional Scroll Framework

This is how top-performing PDPs quietly walk customers from doubt to desire:

Think of it like writing a short film. Every scroll is a new scene. You’re not laying out facts. You’re building conviction.

🕵️‍♀️ Who’s Doing It Right? A Teardown That Hits Different

Take a look at Feals (CBD brand). Their PDPs feel… calm. Intentional. In control.

• First glance: You get the basics—headline, Solution, stars, clean CTA.
• Scroll once: Boom. More Validation, with USPs 
• Scroll again: Dozens of Even more validation with publications, and benefits with faces and tiny ambient animations.
• Deeper down: Reviews, and FAQs. You’re reassured without even realizing it.

They’re not shouting. They’re guiding. That’s the difference.

Now contrast that with Amazon, which we all use, but don’t trust emotionally.

You get hit with reviews, specs, warnings, Q&As, and unrelated products—all at once. It’s not designed to lead you. It’s designed to contain everything, and hope you’ll do the sorting.

📉 Find Your Leaks with the “ESDR” Metric

Want a practical way to diagnose your own page?

Try this:

Emotional Scroll Drop-off Rate (ESDR) = % of users bouncing at a certain scroll depth, mapped to the emotion they should feel there.

Example: If users leave during “Trust,” your social proof isn’t pulling weight. If they bounce right after “Tease,” your CTA may be too aggressive—or too early. Track ESDR to spot where your page starts feeling wrong, not just performing wrong.

🎯 The Takeaway

Conversion isn’t a data problem. It’s a design sequence problem. Shoppers want a page that feels like someone thought it through—start to finish. So stop stacking content based on what you think is important. Start designing based on what they need to feel.

And remember: Great PDPs don’t push people to act. They make people feel like they have already decided.

Partnership with Poplar

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That’s where Poplar comes into play.  

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• Lemonade –  Leveraged customer data to power direct mail personalization, resulting in a 46% increase in conversions.
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