Website design for Australian businesses that has to earn its keep

Most projects run 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff to developer handover. Discovery and structure take the first week or two, wireframes and visual direction the middle stretch, and the design system and prototype the remainder. The variable is rarely our production speed. It is how quickly your stakeholders can review and give consolidated feedback, so we agree review dates in the first week.

Most projects run 5 to 9 weeks from kickoff to developer handover. Structure and art direction take the first few weeks, visual design the middle stretch, and the prototype and handover pack the remainder. The usual delay is not design production. It is waiting on real content and on consolidated stakeholder feedback, so we agree review dates and a content deadline in week one.

Most run 5 to 10 weeks. The audit and architecture stages take the first two to three weeks, design and build the middle, and the final week goes to redirect testing and launch preparation. Larger sites take longer mainly because the content decisions multiply. If content rewriting is part of the scope, plan for the writing to be the critical path rather than the design.

Four things: the number of unique templates, how much original research the audience work needs, how many stakeholder groups must sign off, and whether you need a full tokenised design system or a lighter set of layouts. We scope those in a short discovery call and then send a fixed written quote, so the number does not move unless you change the scope.

Because nothing is inherited. Every template is drawn rather than adapted, every state is designed rather than defaulted, and the art direction is developed rather than purchased. The main cost drivers are the number of unique templates, whether photography direction is in scope and how many stakeholders review. We work through those in a scoping call and send a fixed written quote.

Yes. Every Figma file, exported asset and font licence transfers to your organisation at handover, along with the editable sources. Design files are never held back as leverage. If you take the system to another development partner, they receive the same annotated files and implementation guide we would have used ourselves.

Often, yes. We produce documentation intended for a third party developer, including component specifications, token names, responsive rules and accessibility notes. We also offer a paid review of the built site against the design so you have an independent check before launch. Tell us early who is building it, because the handover pack changes shape accordingly.

We design around the advertising rules before layout, not after legal review. For an AHPRA regulated practice that means no testimonial modules on clinical pages and careful treatment of outcome claims. For financial services it means disclosure text that has room to breathe rather than being buried in six point grey. Get the compliance reviewer looking at wireframes and the visual round almost never stalls.

We stay available during the build to answer implementation questions, review staging against the design and sign off the final pass. If we are also doing the build, that review is built into our process. Once live, most clients keep a small monthly block for iteration, since the first three months of real behaviour usually suggest changes worth making.

Not if the migration work is done properly. Rankings are lost when URLs change without redirects, when page content is thinned during a design tidy up, or when technical signals like structured data are dropped. We inventory every URL first, map redirects one to one, check content parity on pages that earn traffic, and monitor daily for two weeks after launch so anything unexpected is caught in days rather than quarters.