Design systems, build, performance
Web design and development
Front-ends with real motion craft that still score green. Designed and built under one direction, so nothing is lost between the file and the browser.
Most studios hand a design file to a developer and hope. What survives that handover is usually the layout; what does not is the timing, the spacing decisions that only make sense in motion, and every judgement that was never written down because the designer expected to be in the room.
We design and build under one direction, which removes the handover entirely. Work moves into the browser early — often in the first fortnight — because a page is not really a page until it has been resized, tabbed through, and loaded on a phone with one bar of signal.
Performance is a design constraint here rather than a cleanup task. Effects run on the compositor, geometry is measured once instead of every frame, and images carry the dimensions that stop a page jumping while it loads. The result is a site that moves properly and still passes Core Web Vitals, which is not a trade-off you have to accept.
Accessibility is treated the same way. Keyboard paths, contrast ratios and reduced-motion behaviour are decided while the design is still moving, because retrofitting them after sign-off means either a worse design or a worse site. You get a build your own developer can pick up, with the deployment notes and the reasoning behind anything unusual.
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Questions we get asked
What does a website cost?
A very small site — a few pages on a clear brief — starts at €899 excl. VAT. Most custom websites land between €1,499 and €2,499 excl. VAT, and more pages that need real design, a system to edit it yourself or links to other tools take it above that. Need an identity too? An identity and a custom website together start at €2,750 excl. VAT. What moves the price: how many pages need designing rather than templating, and whether content and photography already exist. Tell us what you are building and we will come back with one number rather than a range to pick from — and we will say early if what you have in mind and what it costs are not the same thing.
How long does it take?
It depends on what you are building. A small site — a handful of pages on a brief that is already clear — can be finished inside a week. A larger one, designed from scratch alongside an identity, runs eight to twelve weeks. Either way the schedule moves on your input more than on our capacity: feedback arriving in one consolidated round keeps it, and feedback arriving in pieces over three weeks does not.
Can we edit the site ourselves?
Yes. What should be editable is editable, and we would rather spend the time on making that clear than on being called for a typo. What is deliberately not editable is the layout system, because that is what stops a site drifting six months in.
Do you do hosting and maintenance?
Only where the quote says so. Otherwise the site is handed over and it is yours to run, with the access, deployment notes and reasoning behind anything unusual — enough for a competent developer to take it on without calling us.
Will it be fast?
Performance is treated as a design constraint here rather than a cleanup task at the end, so the answer is yes and it is checked while the design is still moving. Motion and Core Web Vitals is not a trade-off you have to accept.