Marketing for engineers

Use this when designing brochure, pricing, and subscription signup pages for Dev-Centr (and sibling) products. Parent vocabulary: Web apps (marketing Band A is lighter than the logged-in app).

Philosophy

Market to engineers, not to an imagined lowest-common-denominator audience. Less salesmanship, more specification. Real decisions, real thinking, not hype.

Pricing and signup surfaces

  • Old-school matter-of-fact styling.

  • No sensory attentional hooks (bright saturated “urgency” colors).

  • Low stimulation. Neutral tones; low-contrast deltas between adjacent boundaries and elements (overall tonal range may still be high).

  • Details-focused copy and layout. Concrete explanations; diagrams when they clarify a real choice.

  • No emojis—or cast them into the neutral range with filters if unavoidable.

  • Limited curves. Slight curves are fine for orientation; lines support detailed comparison.

  • Rounded edges where the user must choose between large concepts; prefer sharper structure for fine-grained options.

Perceptual stance

Approximate the user’s perceptual process from cognitive and UX research: orientation first (curves, grouping), then detailed evaluation (lines, tables, specs). Do not invert that with hype chrome on the decision surface.