Web design agency in Austin

Bruno designs the visitor’s journey before the screens, then tests it all in a prototype before writing code. Co-founder and CEO Barthélémy Chalvet is a product designer who worked at Uber in San Francisco. Designers and developers are all on staff. For an Austin company, that means one point of contact from first sketch to launch.

No. Bruno has no office in Austin or anywhere else in Texas. Texas projects are run from San Francisco, at 415 Mission St, two hours behind. Design presentations fit into the hours both time zones share, and the prototype can be commented on online at any time. Paris joins the project when the brand is coming from Europe.

A web design project starts with the sitemap: deciding what the site should contain, and in what order, before drawing a single page. Bruno builds it with you in a workshop, then moves on to designs and a prototype in UX/UI. Development comes after. Starting with the homepage is like picking curtains before the walls are up.

Yes. Bruno redesigned the interface of the Alaska State Archives, working within the rules of a state government while putting historical documents front and center. Since 2012, the agency has also worked with Xola, a booking platform for tourism and leisure, on an experience built for phones, tablets, desktops and kiosks. Neither is in Texas, and we won’t pretend otherwise.

If SXSW is your big moment of the year, Bruno recommends starting the redesign the fall before. A site that’s designed and then built takes several months, approvals included. Starting in September leaves time to test the prototype and fix things before March. Starting in February mostly tests your nerves.

Yes. Bruno builds a clickable prototype, for desktop and mobile, before development starts. You move through it like a real site, have a few customers try it if you can, and then we adjust. At that stage, moving a button takes minutes and no code. Once the site is live, every change becomes a small project again.

On average, Bruno designs and launches a website in two to four months. That varies a lot: an English-only marketing site moves faster than a bilingual booking platform, and every layer of approval adds time. The time difference barely matters, since the prototype can be reviewed around the clock.