Design and build are two different skills and two different risks. Ordered together, they get one price and one sign-off, so at the design stage there is nothing distinct to approve.
Moving a section in a wireframe takes minutes. The same change after launch is a developer's job, testing, and the risk that something nearby stops working.
In a flat quote for the whole job, design is often a by-product of build. A separate stage has its own scope, its own deadline and its own sign-off, so you see what you get.
Then you need a design, not a second contractor. We hand over wireframes, graphic design and a prototype in a form your team can build from without us.
A design can be ordered before the technology is chosen. Choosing it first narrows the layout to what that platform can do, before anyone has asked what the site actually needs to do.
The design stage on its own takes three to eight weeks, depending on the number of views. Each stage ends with something you approve, so the deadline is shared, not just ours.
1 week
We settle the site's goals, customer paths and the list of views to design. The quote comes from that list, so you know it before the first line is drawn.
1-3 weeks
Layout and hierarchy with no colour, approved view by view. Your role is one decision per view: what goes higher up and what this screen does not need.
2-4 weeks
Colours, typography and reusable components, for phone and desktop. We also design the screens that never make it into a presentation because they do not look good, and yet happen every day.
a few days
A clickable prototype and the full set of files for a developer. If we build it, the same set moves straight into work with no extra hand-over; if someone else does, you get it in the same form.
A site design gets judged twice: once at the wireframe stage, and again a year in, once it is clear whether it sells. These ratings come from companies that went through both moments with us.
weighted average of 224 reviews across three platforms. Clients gave them, and each site below links to the profile with the full text of every review.
Read the reviewsWe design with knowledge of what the platform will do with the finished layout, and where the traffic that hits it comes from.
The top tier of the agency programme. We design a store knowing the default behaviour of the listing, filters and cart, so the wireframe never ends up with a screen whose build costs more than the whole graphic design stage.
We run the campaigns that drive traffic to the sites we design ourselves. So we know where paid traffic stalls, and what raises the cost of acquiring a customer, before the design ever reaches build.
Traffic from social media arrives on a phone and with half the attention. In the mobile design we shorten the path to the cart instead of adding more sections, and we know that from campaign data, not assumptions.
We quote the design stage on its own against the number of views and their states. The figures next to the build variants are entry prices; full packages sit in each category's own pricing.
We design sites and stores without building them too: wireframes, graphic design, a prototype and the full set of files for a developer. Build is run by your own team or a contractor of your choice. The quote comes from the list of views drawn up at the workshop and covers all four stages.
Design and build of a company or service site in one order and with one final deadline. The entry price covers a landing page; a site with a fully custom design starts higher and is described by the websites category.
A fully custom graphic design and store build in one order. On top of the design, this adds the listing, product page, cart and checkout. A PrestaShop store with its own design is quoted individually, and full packages are described by the stores category.
The call is led by a new business specialist. When we get into the details of an account, the specialist for that channel joins in. We reply within one business day.
Before the meeting we review your website, your visibility and what your campaigns show from the outside. We will not open with “so, what does your company do?”.
The reply comes from the same new business specialist who will run the call. No qualification form and no call from an unknown number.
We go through your numbers and your questions. If it turns out we are not the right fit, we will tell you straight away.
