Services / Web design
Web design, from wireframe to live site
We’re a web design agency that handles the whole site: structure and content strategy, the interface, the build and the CMS your team will run it from. Marketing sites, corporate sites and ecommerce, for startups and global brands.
Your website is where most people meet your brand first, so we build it to explain what you do quickly, make the next step obvious, and load fast enough that nobody waits to find out.
Designed and built in one place.
Designers and developers sit on one team here, so nothing gets lost between the design file and the build. We work on the stack that fits the project: Next.js for custom sites, a headless CMS such as Payload or Sanity so your team can edit without a developer, and Shopify for ecommerce.
Every project is a fixed fee for an agreed scope. A focused site launches in three to four weeks; larger builds with custom functionality, several languages or a content programme run to twelve, and the pace is mostly set by how quickly content and decisions arrive, so we say up front what we need from you and when. At handover you own the code, the content and the accounts, with us on hand for whatever comes next.
What We Deliver
Web Design & Art Direction
Distinctive, on brand design that makes your site feel considered and unmistakably yours. Every layout, type choice and interaction is shaped to express the brand, and the design system behind it means pages added a year later still look like they belong.
Build and Stack
Clean, scalable code on the platform that fits the project, whether that is a custom Next.js build, a headless CMS or Shopify for ecommerce. Performance, accessibility and the technical SEO basics are built in from the first commit rather than patched on before launch, so the site is fast on day one and stays fast as it grows.
UI & UX Design
Clear, intuitive interfaces designed around how people actually use them. We map the flows, structure and screens before any visual design begins, so the site feels obvious to move through on a phone as much as on a desktop.
Website Redesign
Most of our website projects start with a site that already exists. We audit what works, keep the content worth keeping, and plan the new structure around what the analytics say people actually do. Content migration, redirects and tracking are part of the job, so you keep your rankings through the switch instead of starting from zero.
Launch & Support
We ship it, hand it over and make it easy for your team to run: a CMS set up around how you work, the repository for your developers, a walkthrough, and support when you need it after go live. A few weeks in we come back to the numbers and tune what the real traffic shows.
How We Design & Build
A website is agreed in stages, not revealed at the end. Each of the four steps below ends with something you can open, click through and sign off, so by the time the site goes live there is nothing in it you have not already seen.
Discovery & Strategy
We start with what the site has to do and for whom: your goals, the analytics of the current site if there is one, the content you have and the content you are missing. Out of that comes a sitemap, a content plan and a brief we both sign off before any design begins.
Wireframe & Prototyping
Wireframes first, so the structure is agreed before anyone argues about colour. Then the design system and the key page types, assembled into a clickable prototype you can walk through on your own phone. You approve a site you have already used, not a set of static screens.
Development & Build
The approved design is built page type by page type, with content going in as we go so you see the real site take shape, not a template with placeholder text. Every build is tested across devices and browsers and checked for speed and accessibility before it goes near a live domain.
Launch & Optimisation
We handle the switch: redirects from the old URLs, analytics and Search Console, domain and hosting, and a walkthrough of the CMS for your team. A few weeks after launch we review what the traffic is actually doing and tune the pages that matter most.
What happens after launch
A website is finished on launch day and then changes every week after it. We build each one as a system the client can run, and for the clients whose sites keep growing, we stay on as the team that grows them.
AI and tech startups
The product moves faster than any site, so the site has to keep up. Marketing edits in the CMS, your developers get the repository, and we stay on for launches and the next redesign. Nesa, Miso Labs.
Web3 and blockchain
A protocol site lives through launches, upgrades and market cycles. We build it as a stable front door, hand over the code and repository, and keep extending it with your team. Nesa, Talus, IBC, WeChange.
Luxury and hospitality
These sites change by season: a new collection, a new shoot, a new rate card. Layouts that stay elegant whatever goes in them, and our design team when a season needs more. AGNESTOTH, ACOE, Billionaires Row.
International schools
Edited by the marketing and communications team every week. The CMS handles the everyday; on retainer, we evolve the site itself as admissions, events and integrations demand. AISB, ISB, AISZ.
Industry and enterprise
Corporate sites grow sideways: a new language, a product line, a customer portal. We build the foundation so each is an extension, not a rebuild, and keep building them. Pannon Turfgrass, website to B2B ordering platform.
The whole Designatives team are a level above tier 1, they don’t just possess design talent or keen brand awareness, but are a team uniquely complete in their level of ambitious creativity and remarkable ability to pull it off.
FAQs
Tell us about your website
A short note is enough: what the site needs to do and when you need it live. We reply within one working day with next steps, or you can book a discovery call straight away.