Website design

Whether you’re looking for a design for a small business website, an email campaign, an online store, a web application or something else, Harmonic Northwest has you covered.

We utilize both in-house staff and external partners to craft modern, elegant website designs for our clients. Our development team is actively involved in the design process to ensure that our websites are set up to excel in search engine optimization, accessibility and usability while staying on budget and on time.

Bringing development expertise to the design process

Here at Harmonic Northwest, our developers are more than just code wranglers—we are design-first thinkers. That means that when we’re doing development work we’re not just focusing on the minutia of writing solid and maintainable code, but we’re always keeping the end user in mind and thinking about how we can better serve them. We stay true to the design concepts even when creating new pages and filling in gaps with interstitial experiences not explicitly called out in comps.

Many of our developers have been professional designers at one point or another in our careers, and we think that shows.

We make a practice of embedding our development team into the design process to ensure that development-centric concerns are addressed every step of the way. We can look at napkin sketches, preliminary sitemaps, braindump wireframes and all other manner of conceptual designs to give valuable real-time feedback that guides the design process toward meeting business objectives.

Design for search engine optimization

Our team ensures that designs are created with SEO in mind. That means making sure content is structured for semantical correctness, pages are accessible via menus, opportunities for intra-site linking are utilized, important selling points are broken out to individual pages and more.

Design for accessibility

Early in the design process our team can call out issues that would impede a website from achieving WCAG compliance. This might mean identifying issues with color contrast, font sizes, information presented in imagery and video, headings, interactive components, breadcrumbs, web forms, etc.

Design for affordability

Some design elements are harder to code than others. By embedding ourselves in the design process from the very beginning, our development team is able to call out parts of the design that will be difficult to build and therefore more expensive. Often times these difficult elements can be easily swapped out with different components and third-party widgets that are easier to implement. These kinds of changes can save a project thousands of dollars without necessarily sacrificing anything in terms of usability or elegance.