Process
How we actually work.
Most process pages describe an intention. This is what ours looks like in practice, week by week, with the dates we actually commit to.
Seven steps
From first call to handoff.
We scope a launch site at four to six weeks from kickoff, and a redesign at four to ten, because the first fortnight of a redesign goes on working out what the existing site is doing. Those are the numbers that go in the agreement rather than an average of past jobs. Ecommerce varies with the catalogue. Stewardship, if you want it, is ongoing.
Discovery
Week 1We start with a conversation. One call, no form, no agenda, no pitch. We talk about the business, the audience, what success looks like, and whether we're actually the right fit. If we're, we scope the work together. If we aren't, we'll say so, and suggest who might be better.
Most agencies spend the first call selling. We spend it listening. By the end, you should have a clearer picture of what you need, regardless of whether that picture includes us.
Architecture
Week 1Before Figma opens, we map structure. Information hierarchy, content decisions, key user flows. We decide what lives on each page, what the site needs to communicate in what order, and where the structure can break down under real use.
Getting architecture right means we never design ourselves into a corner. A page that looks beautiful but buries the most important information is a failure regardless of how good the visuals are.
Design
Weeks 2–3We work in the browser early and often. No static mockup predicts how something moves, loads, or reads on a phone at midnight. We prototype in code alongside Figma, make decisions about type and spacing with real content, and keep changing it with you as we go, rather than at the end of a long silence.
You're in the work while it happens, so the design arrives in pieces you have already seen. Fewer surprises, and better decisions made faster.
Development
Weeks 3–5Whoever designed it builds it, so nothing has to be explained twice or guessed at once. When something turns out to be harder to build than it looked, the person deciding what to do about it's the person who drew it, and the answer is usually to redraw that one thing rather than to ship a compromise nobody chose.
Production code from day one, so nothing has to be cleaned up later. Speed, accessibility, and a structure a screen reader can follow are built in as the work goes, because adding any of the three afterwards costs more than doing it once.
Review + Refinement
Weeks 4–5We don't present a final site and wait for notes. You have been in it throughout. By final review there should be no surprises left, only decisions about small details. We run a structured cross-browser, cross-device pass and fix everything before anything is called done.
This includes Lighthouse audits, Core Web Vitals verification, accessibility checks, and a full link and form test. If anything is below target, it gets fixed before launch.
Launch
Week 6Going live, pointing the domain name at it, sending every old address to the right new page, and checking the speed again at the end. We run Google's own audit on every page. We don't launch a site that takes more than two and a half seconds to appear, or one whose layout jumps about while it loads.
Launch is where the work starts being tested by people who weren't in the room while it was made. We stay close for the first two weeks.
Handoff
Post-launchYou own everything. The code, the images, the accounts, and written instructions for all of it. We walk you through the CMS if there's one, answer questions, and make sure you can run the site without us. If you want ongoing support, stewardship is available. If you don't, you're genuinely ready to go.
The handoff is designed to make us unnecessary, and we would rather you never needed to test that.
Next step
The process starts with one email.
Tell us what you're working on, where you have got to, and roughly when it needs to be live. You get a straight answer about whether the calendar and the job line up, and a name to try instead if they don't.
Taking on work now. Each project starts when the one before it ends, which is why the dates we give you hold. Calendar checked .