Make complex content easier to find, understand and maintain.
A redesign should improve more than the visual style. It should make information easier to find and understand while giving editors a system they can maintain.
We design new websites, full redesigns, and focused refreshes for higher education, nonprofit, and public-sector teams. Accessibility, content structure, governance, institutional standards, and CMS constraints shape the work from the start.
What a redesign has to solve.
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Discovery & project definition
We clarify audience needs, content conditions, analytics, governance, platform constraints, internal priorities, and what success needs to look like before design decisions begin.
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Information architecture & user pathways
Navigation, page hierarchy, labels, content relationships, and common tasks organized for websites serving overlapping audiences and distributed departments.
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Content strategy & governance
Decisions about what stays, changes, combines, or retires, along with content structure, ownership, review responsibilities, and sustainable publishing expectations.
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Visual design & component systems
Typography, hierarchy, layouts, and reusable components designed for institutional identity, accessibility, real content, and the CMS where they will be maintained.
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Accessible interaction design
Navigation, forms, search, filtering, disclosures, and dynamic components designed for keyboard use, visible focus, zoom, reduced motion, and assistive technology.
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Front-end implementation & CMS alignment
Semantic HTML, maintainable CSS, and purposeful JavaScript that translate the approved design into production within Drupal, WordPress, Cascade CMS, or another existing environment.
What protects a redesign after approval.
A strong visual direction still has to survive real content, accessibility requirements, CMS constraints, and everyday publishing decisions.
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Define the right scale of change
Discovery determines whether the underlying problem needs a focused refresh, information architecture work, a full redesign, or a new website.
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Design with representative content
Real titles, media, tables, forms, and edge cases expose component and hierarchy problems before they reach production.
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Carry decisions into the CMS
Components, content rules, front-end implementation, and editor guidance preserve the approved design after launch.
The right scale of change
A redesign can mean a new information architecture and visual system. It can also mean a focused refresh within an institutional template, a navigation overhaul, or a front-end rebuild that leaves the CMS and most content in place.
We define the level of change the problem actually requires. That keeps the investment focused and avoids forcing a migration or rebuild when the website needs better structure, presentation, or editorial patterns instead.
Designed for real content and real editors
Institutional websites keep changing after launch. Editors add programs, deadlines move, leadership changes, and departments need pages the original design never anticipated.
The system has to hold up through everyday publishing. We design components around clear purposes and realistic content variation, then document content rules, accessibility expectations, and editorial guidance so it remains useful as new needs appear.
Start with what needs to work better.
Share the content, navigation, design, or editorial problems your team is facing. We can help define the right scope for a focused refresh, full redesign, or new website.
Discuss a design project