Web design / Austin, TX
The bar is higher here
Austin is a hard town to look ordinary in. A coffee shop on South Congress competes for attention with places that hired serious designers years ago, and a seed-stage company gets compared, fairly or not, with the polished sites of the big tech employers up the road. People here notice when a site was thrown together over a weekend.
That isn’t a reason to overspend. It’s a reason to be deliberate about what a visitor sees in the first few seconds on a phone: what you do, and where to call or book. Get those right and most of the work is done; get them wrong and a beautiful typeface won’t save the page.
Founders, and everyone who works near them
Plenty of Austin founders reach the website stage with a product and no story yet. If that’s you, the site’s job is narrow. It has to explain the thing in one sentence a stranger understands, then ask for a single action, whether that’s joining a waitlist or booking a demo. We build those sites so anyone on staff can rewrite the headline on a Tuesday afternoon without filing a ticket with anyone. Our notes on startup web design go into more detail.
But Austin isn’t only software. The roofers in Pflugerville, the dentists in Cedar Park and the barbecue spots that pull people down to Lockhart have a different problem: they need to show up when someone searches with one thumb, and the page has to load before that person loses patience.
A metro that keeps spreading out
The Austin metro holds about 2.55 million people across Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties, according to the Census Bureau’s 2024 estimates, and much of the growth has landed in the suburbs. Round Rock, Georgetown and Leander have filled in to the north; Kyle and San Marcos have done the same to the south.
That matters for search more than most owners expect. Someone in Georgetown rarely types “Austin” into Google. They type “Georgetown”, or nothing at all, and let the phone’s location do the work. If you serve those towns, your site should say so in plain words on the pages that count, not in a list of suburbs buried in the footer. Part of our job is helping you decide which places deserve a page of their own and which only need a mention.
What we’d build with you
Most Austin projects begin as web design and grow from there. A newer company usually needs a brand identity at the same time, because a logo picked in a hurry tends to fight the site built around it. An established business with a tired site often gets more from a website redesign than from starting over, and anyone who sells to locals should read our page on SEO before deciding the site is finished.
We also make 3D and motion work, which suits product launches and the kind of announcement that has to look good on a conference screen during SXSW week and on a phone the morning after.
How an Austin project runs
We don’t have an Austin office, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Projects run over video calls and shared review links, scheduled on Central Time so nobody sits through a design review at 7 a.m. You’ll watch the site take shape as we go rather than waiting for one big reveal, and the last call before launch is a lesson in editing it yourselves.
Questions Austin owners ask
Can you build pages for the suburbs too?
Yes, and for some businesses it’s the most useful thing we do. A contractor working across Williamson County might need separate pages for Round Rock and Georgetown, each written for the people who live there, instead of one page trying to rank everywhere at once.
We’re launching around SXSW. Is there enough time?
That depends on how much is already decided. A focused launch site with the copy in hand can come together in a few weeks, while a new brand plus a full site takes longer. Tell us your date early and we’ll say honestly whether it’s realistic.