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UMANIFEST / WEB DESIGN

Web design around
your business.

A website should make your business easy to understand and hard to overlook. Umanifest works with businesses in Tacoma and Pierce County to shape a clear, considered online experience—from the first impression to the next step.

Start with your idea
  • A clear first impression
  • A considered mobile experience
  • A purposeful next step

Start with what your customers need.

A new website begins with a few useful questions. What do you offer? Who is it for? What should someone do after reading a page? Those answers guide the content, navigation, and visual direction.

The aim is a website that reflects your business while helping visitors find their way. A striking opening matters, and so do readable service descriptions, useful page titles, and contact details that are easy to find.

Give every page a reason to be there.

Scope depends on your content and the experience your customers need. A brief can bring these parts together:

  • Page structure and contentA homepage, service pages, business information, and a clear route to contact, with the navigation planned around those needs.
  • Visual directionTypography, color, imagery, and spacing that work together, using your existing brand or a direction developed for the website.
  • Responsive layoutsConsidered phone and desktop experiences, with readable text, usable navigation, and room for the content to breathe.
  • Business tools in the briefBooking links, store needs, or other features can be discussed and scoped around the systems you already use.

If your current site needs a new direction, explore website redesign. If the visuals need attention first, graphic design and visual consulting can help shape the starting point.

Consider the phone experience from the start.

A smaller screen changes the way a page is used. Headlines need room, body text needs to be readable, and menus and customer actions need to be easy to reach. Images and visual effects should support the content rather than crowd it.

Mobile design belongs alongside the desktop direction. Reviewing both helps identify where content should move, where spacing needs to change, and how the next step can remain clear.

A clear direction, then the details.

  1. Understand the business.We discuss your services, customers, existing materials, and the pages or functions you need. This creates a practical brief before design decisions multiply.
  2. Shape the experience.Content, page hierarchy, and visual ideas come together. You can review how the website communicates your business and discuss what needs refining.
  3. Review the whole website.Consider the copy, navigation, imagery, mobile layouts, and customer actions together. Hosting, domain, and any feature requirements belong in that conversation.

Bring what you have. Start where you are.

Your business name, a description of your services, and a few examples you like are useful first steps. Logos, photographs, existing copy, and a domain name help when available. You do not need every design answer before beginning a conversation.

For businesses in Tacoma, University Place, and the wider Pacific Northwest, accurate service-area information belongs in the brief too. It helps the website explain where your business works without adding locations or claims that are not yours.

Questions about a new website.

Can we begin before all the content is ready?

Yes. Start with your business and the information you already have. The brief can identify missing copy or images, who will supply them, and how those materials affect the page structure.

Will the website be considered on phones?

Mobile experience is part of the design conversation. Text, navigation, page flow, and customer actions should be reviewed at narrow widths as well as on a desktop.

How is the project scope decided?

Pages, content, features, and the level of design all affect the work. Share your priorities and any existing tools so the scope can be discussed before agreeing on a quote.

LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN

Your next chapter
starts with a conversation.

Share your business, your current website if you have one, and what you want to create.

Tell us what you have in mind

The project form prepares an email draft. You review and send it in your email app.