Web design is the process of creating the visual feel, layout, and flow of web pages on a website. It involves UX design, graphic design, and overall knowledge of the best spacing, fonts, shapes, and colors to use to create a user-friendly experience. Good web design solidifies your company's credibility regardless of industry or field. Having a one-of-a-kind design for your website can make all the difference in today's web-based world.
Web designers work with UX designers and web developers to take a wireframe and design and transform it into a product. They outline visual updates to pages on your website or create an entirely new concept for a redesign. If you're on the fence about hiring a web design company, remember that we spend most of our time online, so being found online is key to boosting business.
Luckily, Chicago has some of the best web designers to hire. Use our list to find and connect with web designers in The Windy City. Evaluate their case studies, project types, and client reviews to determine which company is the best fit for you.
With an impressively robust client list that includes names like Hilton, Solid Digital empowers brands with web design. Founded on design-first principles, this Chicago-based firm offers an emphasis on helping brands drive change.
One example of Solid Digital’s experience is their work for Embassy Suites, one of the world’s respected brands. Solid Digital helped them target their audience of customers with a complete reevaluation of their strategy. This resulted in powerful engagement and an increase in perceived authority for them.
LumenVox came to Solid Digital as a brand new client in 2021, looking for a way to elevate their brand and create a forward-thinking, future-minded website that could drive top-funnel leads and establish a strategic...
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Hireology: Website Redesign
With a unique SaaS that put recruiting and hiring all in one platform, Hireology needed a new website to tell the story of their transition, with an extra emphasis on their product features.The goals Hireology set out to...
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Therapeutic Associates: Website...
Therapeutic Associates was looking to redesign and redevelop its website to achieve an engaging user experience that was both easy to navigate and educational.
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LivCor: Website Design &...
A premier multi-family real estate company in the United States, LivCor needed a strategic web design agency to redesign their website that will allow for a better content management system to would be easier to use and...
With an impressively robust client list that includes names like Dunbar Armored, Gulo empowers brands with UX and UI design. Founded on design-first principles, this Chicago-based firm offers an emphasis on helping brands drive change.
One example of Gulo’s experience is their work for The Side-Out Foundation, one of the world’s respected brands. Gulo helped them target their audience of customers with a complete reevaluation of their strategy. This resulted in powerful engagement and an increase in perceived authority for them.
up4® Probiotics is a new brand in the health supplement space. Their marketing team asked Gulo to be innovative and find a unique way to connect with customers.Their site now offers a personalized experience to users...
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B2C Brand Awareness Website...
Midwestern Pet Foods largest and most popular brand–Earthborn Holistic® Pet Food–was in dire need of a web design refresh. It had been around 6-7 years since the website had a new look. The navigation was antiquated...
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DTC Website Redesign and User...
Holigos is a unique nutrition supplement created by a Danish biotechnology company. They’re passionate about their brand and dedicated to total well-being through improved digestive health.
Holigos requested help...
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Non-Profit Website Redesign
For over 81 years, AMA Chicago has been the most valued executive membership in the Windy City. As such, the new website needed stellar content and user-friendly navigation to meet the needs of local business leaders...
With a passion for both strategy and design, Flamingo Agency has provided search engine optimization work for clients like Unleashed Luxury Travel. Based in Chicago, Flamingo Agency brings a long history of success to each project they complete.
When Crown Trailer was just a new brand looking to make an impact, Flamingo Agency crafted the entirety of their experience in this distinct area. The result was a splashy entrance into the market orchestrated by Flamingo Agency designers and strategists.
The team from Flamingo Agency developed a custom designed WordPress website emphasizing a professional yet modern look for a lawyer. The site features parallax effects and is highly optimized for on-page SEO.
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Financial Services Website
Flamingo Agency designed a WordPress website for a firm from the financial sector. Website features an interactive map integration.
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Website Design for New Restaurant
Flamingo Agency created a captivating website for a new restaurant from the Gold Coast in Chicago, IL.
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Website for Physical Therapy
Flamingo Agency created a WordPress website for a physical therapy clinic in Chicago. The site was developer with the most modern onpage SEO foundations to maximize the company's online exposure.
With an impressively robust client list that includes names like Velvetech, Comrade Web Agency empowers brands with search engine optimization. Founded on design-first principles, this Chicago-based firm offers an emphasis on helping brands drive change.
One example of Comrade Web Agency’s experience is their work for Boat.me, one of the world’s respected brands. Comrade Web Agency helped them target their audience of customers with a complete reevaluation of their strategy. This resulted in powerful engagement and an increase in perceived authority for them.
About this project:
The company is a fast-growing commercial tent manufacturer and supplier with eCommerce operations selling to three primary audiences: event rental companies, businesses requiring tent...
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SEO for a Nationwide Spice Seller
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The company is a large-scale e-commerce purveyor of herbs and spices. In addition to its online store, it has more than 30 physical retail locations across 15 states and its spices are used in more...
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Web Design for Hi-Tech Fitness...
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From treadmills to rowers, this gym equipment company offers a wide range of high-tech gym equipment for residental and commercial use for people experience premium workouts they'd expect at the...
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eCommerce Web Design for Luxury...
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Based in Brooklyn and featured in department stores including Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, this company's beautiful products are designed for discerning consumers who have an eye for art and...
Recognizable brands worldwide have employed 1Brand Design to bring their web design needs to the next level. Based in Chicago, 1Brand Design was founded with a focus on helping brands evolve into their best, most user-friendly selves.
When their client needed a more impactful and effective strategy for reaching goals nationwide, 1Brand Design provided them with focused service that continues to this day. Their strategy involved refining their client’s distinct voice as well as their visual profile to become more effective in a crowded digital space.
ePageCity counts impressive brands among their key clients. So it’s no wonder that this Chicago-based firm has achieved widespread success in a wide range of industries for their targeted web design work.
One example of their web development success comes from a globally recognized brand. ePageCity helped them revitalize their materials to stand out in a crowded market and leave a powerful impression on more customers than ever before.
ePageCity designers and developers were tasked with redesigning an outdated website for Chicago commercial realty brokers, Matanky Realty Group. Matanky’s dynamic homepage sets the tone with large-scale imagery and a...
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pCarWise
Our professional web designers created pCarWise a dynamic and inviting site that provides a wealth of information for Porsche fans and owners. This flashy and informative website features searchable databases for car...
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Milsoft Utility Solutions
Our designers and developers took great care in redesigning a custom website for Milsoft Utility Solutions. As a premiere electrical utility provider, Milsoft needed a more concise and easy-to-navigate website to reflect...
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Blue Vista Capital Management
ePageCity’s web design team were tasked with creating investment management firm, Blue Vista a custom website that speaks to their client-base with ease and simplicity. Blue Vista makes a great first impression with a...
Five Jars is an international Drupal agency that helps mid to enterprise companies create intuitive, data-driven web experiences. In the last 4 years, we’ve delivered 75+ projects for clients in health & fitness, media, art & culture and NGO markets, including 10+ mid to enterprise clients such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Council for Exceptional Children, Fortune 500 organizations and numerous large YMCAs across the US.
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YMCA of the North attracts 3,000,000+ unique users annually. With that amount of traffic, every single website improvement becomes a complex project. In order to delight customers, increase impact and grow their...
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George Washington’s Mount Vernon
George Washington’s Mount Vernon partnered with Five Jars to help with difficult technological challenges, to update and advance their web environment and add additional features to their ticketing platform and website...
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Spooky Nook Sports
Spooky Nook Sports recently transitioned to a new CRM system and identified various areas for improvement. Especially the UX design and the user journeys required an update to align with the overall desired website...
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Mount Vernon Video Portal
George Washington’s Mount Vernon has been increasing its video production efforts to offer additional value to its visitors and members. Besides pre-recorded videos, Mount Vernon now offers live events and other...
Artversion counts Volvo among its key clients and has delivered branding results in a variety of industries. The result is that this Chicago-based firm has achieved widespread acclaim for their targeted branding work.
One example of their branding success comes from a globally recognized brand that found itself in need of refreshed brand identity. Artversion helped them revitalize their existing strategy to stand out in a crowded market and leave a powerful impression on more customers than ever before.
Committed to providing access to opportunities that lead to a higher quality of services, TransUnion works to understand their customer’s risk, and evolving needs to create solutions that help companies innovate and...
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UltraLube
Plews Edelmann came to ArtVersion with one challenge: to position UltraLube, it’s flagship brand of lubricants and oils as a market leader by utilizing simple, concise messaging and consumer resonance. User experience...
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SRC Solutions
An web app platform serving school district’s nationwide requiring a strategic, streamlined and phased rollout that would not effect user-flows in every school’s administrative processes. As a premier enrollment and...
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Treklytics
Led by a highly successful investment firm, Treklytics’s founders came to us with a big idea. Driven to see solutions others don’t and inspired to capitalize on opportunities others miss, their focused...
Codal has worked for renowned brands like Pepsi and United Airlines, but they haven’t lost their agile startup approach. This Chicago-based firm offers UX design and mobile app development – expertise backed by over 9 years experience.
One example of Codal’s work is the Gift Guru web design, which features a streamlined interface for tracking and discovering the best gift ideas for a range of audiences. The site has since been used by millions of shoppers around the world.
For Mark Bell Sling Shot we launched a new eCommerce site built on Shopify Plus for a leading fitness equipment brand. In addition to custom development work, the project feature design contributions from both Chicago and...
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Garrett Popcorn
A storied popcorn retailer, Garrett enlisted Codal to revamp its eCommerce presence. Migrating to the BigCommerce platform, Codal completely redesigned the site’s UX to accurately tell the Garrett story and provide a...
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Charles Schwab
Our team redesigned Charles Schwab’s internal compliance web app to help the enterprise remain competitive in the rapidly digitizing financial sector. We conducted an in-depth combination of user interviews and surveys...
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Peerless-AV
Peerless-AV tapped us to reinvigorate their audiovisual accessory eCommerce site with a brand new look on the Shopify Plus’ platform, adding powerful new functionality. We went to work after an intensive discovery phase...
Recognizable brands worldwide have employed Mess Marketing to bring their video production needs to the next level. Based in Chicago, Mess Marketing was founded with a focus on helping brands evolve into their best, most user-friendly selves.
When their client needed a more impactful and effective strategy for reaching goals nationwide, Mess Marketing provided them with focused service that continues to this day. Their strategy involved refining their client’s distinct voice as well as their visual profile to become more effective in a crowded digital space.
Chicago architecture and engineering firm Bailey Edward came to Mess to refresh their existing brand and overhaul their website. Their goal was to stand out in a sea of neutral, cookie-cutter competitors, and make a bold...
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Pixite Website Redesign
Pixite, a mobile creative app company, came to Mess in search of a redesigned web experience that would better showcase their suite of (very cool) apps, show off the hours of tutorial content they’ve produced, and allow...
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Sinai Health System Website...
Sinai is a large community hospital system in Chicago serving under-resourced populations. Without a million-dollar budget, we needed to find ways to create high performing digital materials that looked like a million...
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Chicago Humanities Festival...
Occasionally a client comes across our radar that we simply have to have because we believe in them. Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those clients.
The Chicago Humanities Festival, after a re-branding, found its...
97 Switch apply their web design and digital marketing skills to develop a digital presence that fits the personality and purpose of their clients. They mainly work with small and mid-sized companies in the hospitality and leisure, financial services, and real estate industries.
They built a launch branding strategy and digital presence for Hotel EMC2, Autograph Collection. The engagement turned into a long-lasting relationship with 97 Switch providing ongoing digital advertising support, content development, SEO, website maintenance, and social media services to the hotel.
PPC digital ads including Google Ads, Facebook and LinkedIn. Digital marketing strategy, email marketing and landing page design using HubSpot for Mobile Doorman, a B2B Proptech Company.
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Website for Hotel Management...
Digital Strategy and Website for SMASHotels, hotel management company
See Work: https://97switch.com/portfolio-item/smashotels/
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Virtual reality business digital...
MassVR, a new free-roam virtual reality gaming experience, allows groups to play and compete in a virtual reality world. The game uses groundbreaking technology, allowing people to walk around in a 16,000 square foot...
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the Albert
Launched the Albert's digital presence with their website and digital marketing efforts.
The Albert is a restaurant in downtown Chicago - https://97switch.com/portfolio-item/the-albert/
With over 510 completed web design and digital marketing projects, EDUCO receives praise for their ability to deliver captivating experiences that drive results. They work with clients ranging from large enterprises to emerging startups.
For example, the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism wanted to redesign the flagship website for the Islands of the Bahamas. They styled an attractive website and transitioned to support, working on initiatives like content internationalization, third-party booking engine integration as well as website and app data synchronization.
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism came to EDUCO to redesign bahamas.com—the flagship site for the Islands of the Bahamas. The challenge was giving them a digital brand refresh, content optimization and UX enhancements...
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Web Development and Content...
As part of a plan to improve admissions and student retention, Olivet Nazarene Graduate School asked EDUCO to redesign their public website. The EDUCO team built a content-rich website that simplified content...
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E-Commerce Development for Cobra...
The challenge for EDUCO was creating a digital brand refresh, easy-to-use content management system, and scalable web architecture. EDUCO elevated Cobra's strategy beyond a single site, building multiple web platforms to...
When companies like Microsoft need an effective path to better brand iconography, they enlist the services of Mabbly. This Chicago-based brand design agency has provided their services for brands throughout the world, and has established itself as an agency that delivers consistent results.
ShopRunner is a company that’s tapped into a large audience already but was looking to expand their reach. They turned to Mabbly for the opportunity to improve their brand platform, and Mabbly delivered a robust branding strategy that led to increased business and brand awareness.
Edelman Zeno Group is a global communications agency powerhouse, representing some of the largest and most visible consumer brands. Using a single global website as the faclilitator of growth for 9 business units that had...
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SPR
SPR is a leading digital transformation agency that specializes in enterprise technology, user experience design, and using data insights to drive decision making.
Recognizing that digital transformation category is...
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SafeRate
The Safe Rate Mortgage is a revolutionary product in the home mortgage market that reduces monthly rates when neighborhood home values go down. An alternative to private mortgage insurance, the Safe Rate Mortgage protects...
Wojo Design is made up of a scrappy group of designs, coders, and problem solvers that helps brands with every element of their online marketing strategy. Their client roster includes small and mid-sized businesses in the e-commerce, business, and financial services industries.
The Wojo Design team partnered with the Alliance Credit Union to help them appeal to a younger audience. They completely modernized the brand designing custom icons and a unique mobile experience to capture the next generation of credit union members and ensure success in the upcoming decades.
Mente Group provides private aviation consulting and also sells and purchases airplanes. They needed a completely overhauled website.
We created a completely unique design tailored to Mente Group’s specific company....
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Web Development for Alliant...
Alliant Credit Union, the 7th largest credit union in the United States, wanted to position itself as a tech-forward credit union with online and mobile banking features comparable with or superior to big banks like...
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Web Development for Base Directory
Base Directory is a digital directory of military bases and the establishments inside of them for military personnel, their families, and guests to discover, find, and retrieve information about everything on every US...
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Iron Galaxy Studios Web Design &...
We built a completely revamped website for Iron Galaxy Studios to help them show off their excellent video game production work to fans and potential partners alike.
Chromatic is made up of a team of devs, designers, and strategists that have offered their expertise to clients since their founding in 2006. They are experts in web development, web design, and UX/UI design for clients that range from small startups to enterprises and everything in between.
As an example of their work, Chromatic partnered with TheaterMania’s Gold Club. The company’s platform was out of date, and Chromatic provided the services needed to keep their services compelling and relevant.
Maui Jim’s web properties and component libraries were updated to meet W3C standards. Chromatic provided leadership for the engineering team in refactoring components and pages to meet these standards. We collaborated...
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Chromatic Perspectives – Outside...
The story of Chromatic's successful two year collaboration with Outside Magazine. It began with a small redesign project on outsideonline.com but has since grown into a true digital partnership.
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American Hospital Association –...
Chromatic built AHA a flexible, streamlined Enterprise Drupal Platform into which we migrated over a dozen of their digital properties. With laser focus on optimal performance and usability, we designed and developed each...
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Increasing Readership and...
Outside Online, the digital presence for the popular Outside magazine, was looking to provide a more unique user experience for their most popular section of the site, the Gear Channel.
Rebuilding the architecture of...
If you've been paying attention to web design, you know that a responsive website is essential. Here's what you need to know about how to make a website responsive.
Meta viewport tag: This line of code tells the page how wide the reader’s device is and how to adjust accordingly. Without it, the page will appear as if on a desktop screen no matter what device is being used.
CSS media queries: These queries enable the page to adjust elements like photographs or graphics depending on the size of the screen.
Flexbox: Flexbox layout allows you to organize the elements of a page in a way that enables them to move fluidly with the size of the screen.
What Are the Advantages of Responsive Web Design?
Here's what you need to know about the advantages of making your website responsive: It allows you to bring in more users, lose fewer users, and improve conversions.
Bring in more users: Responsive web design enables websites to be viewable and findable on any device. Responsive websites are more user friendly, which makes it more likely that Google will prioritize your content in SERPs.
Lose fewer users: Responsive web design lowers bounce rates – especially on mobile devices because your content is easier to consume.
Improve conversions: A responsive web design is more enjoyable to use and looks more professional, making it more likely that readers will stay around long enough to make your site profitable.
What Is the Difference Between Responsive and Adaptive Web Design?
Responsive websites continuously change layout size and adjust functionality depending on the screen size. When the screen on a browser is reduced, the size of the content will change. On the other hand, adaptive sites change layout only when the page gets to a certain size.
Both adaptive and responsive websites change depending on how users view them. For instance, your website will be a different width if a user views it on a smartphone compared to a desktop. There are some important differences, however, between responsive and adaptive sites.
