Discovery & Creative Strategy

Every successful project requires time spent understanding our client’s business objectives, audience demographics and expected return on investment.

Strategy

We meet with you to fully understand your target audiences, business challenges, objectives and expected results. We review sites you like, and sites you don’t. We check out your competition. Finally, we brainstorm tactics for accomplishing your objectives and delivering the results you require.

User Experience Design

Once we understand your organization, we begin to architect the user experience. We map out your content and then we create wireframes that allow you to visualize moving through the site before time is spent on visual design and programming.

Visual Design

Our visual designs make your site stand out from the crowd. Our team is passionate about designing for the web and it shows in everything we do.

Web & Mobile Design

We’re fanatics for keeping up with design trends, UI best practices, and information design theory. Whether we’re designing a traditional website or a mobile version of your site, we apply the best ideas to meet your objectives, while working within your brand standards.

Motion Design

Motion adds an extra dimension to a website. Our expert motion design team will work with you to identify effective ways to incorporate motion into your site that will take your web presence to the next level.

Development

Here’s where the rubber meets the road. Our expert team of developers and programmers translate our smart design work into efficient, effective code.

Web Development

Our talented front-end developers excel at converting complex visual designs into clean, standards-driven, front-end code. They utilize HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery and Ajax as appropriate.

Content Management Systems

Our software engineers architect the back-end data models and custom build a content management system specific to your website’s structure. We’re an open source development shop, working with Django, Python and PostgreSQL as our tools of choice.

Key Talent

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Therese Hannigan

President & Creative Director

Therese is the heart and soul of Dumbwaiter Design, setting overall strategic and creative direction for everything we do.

Luke Alessi

Production Director

From the discovery phase to final delivery of a project, Luke ensures that client objectives are met on schedule, and within budget.

Matt Olpinski

Interactive Art Director

Matt’s attention to detail and interactive design experience ensure that our web projects follow industry best standards throughout the entire creative process.

UI Design

Bryce Thompson

Senior UX Designer

Bryce is all about attention to detail, usable design and mobile practices, and has an infectious passion for the web.

Interface Designer

Josh Nordeen

Interface Designer

Josh designs clean effective interfaces with fluid & dynamic interactions, all crafted with pixel-perfect precision.

Developer Tools

Jon Potter

Senior Software Engineer

Jon architects a clean, efficient, rock-solid foundation for our websites and pushes the limits of technology.