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Guest Spotlight: Craig Kistler

Craig Kistler
Signet Jewelers | Exec

About Craig Kistler

Craig Kistler is VP of Experience Design, Personalization, and Experimentation at Signet Jewelers, where he leads optimization across the retailer's e-commerce brands. A longtime CRO leader, he's known for the 'View All' page test that made more money by showing customers less, and focuses on choice architecture, friction, and conversion.

Notable Quotes

"I can guarantee you 100% conversion rate, and I guarantee you'll be out of business in a week because I'm gonna make everything free."

"The myth of three clicks and all this stuff goes out the window as long as that click is adding value."

"Our north star metric isn't conversion, it's revenue. So I'm looking at revenue per visitor."

"To me, engagement season is much like birthdays. It's happening every single day."

"We're doing more complex and more, what I would say, value-driven experiments as opposed to just the best practice of this button color versus that button color."

Craig Kistler
Signet Jewelers | VP, Experience Design, Personalization & Experimentation

Signet Jeweler's "View All" page made more money by showing less

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Takeaways

All Takeaways

Friction can increase revenue. Blocking the "view all" grid and forcing a style choice sent shoppers deeper and lifted conversion and revenue, because the extra click added value.

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Tie every result to dollars. Translating experiment outcomes into revenue is how Craig keeps financing, warranty, and chat stakeholders aligned and gets executives to act.

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Fewer, bigger experiments beat high volume. Signet went from 40–50 tests a quarter to 15–25 because complex, value-driven tests produce reusable insights that small tweaks don't.

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Revenue per visitor is the honest north star. Conversion rate can be gamed to 100% by making everything free or cutting bounce-heavy traffic; revenue per visitor can't.

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The three-click rule is conditional. Clicks only hurt when they're empty; a click that narrows thousands of options to dozens is a feature, not a cost.

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