Web design agency in Washington DC

Because Bruno knows how to design a clear interface within tight constraints, as the Alaska State Archives project showed. The team, around forty people all on staff, handles both design and development without subcontracting. When every page has to clear several approvals, keeping the same contacts from start to finish saves a lot of back-and-forth.

Yes. Bruno runs Washington projects from San Francisco, at 415 Mission St, and the Paris team can join in. You’re three hours ahead of California, and your early afternoon lines up with our morning, which is when video design reviews happen. The shared prototype then lets every stakeholder comment at their own pace, between meetings.

A web design agency decides how the site is organized, how it feels to use and how it looks, then proves those choices on a prototype. At Bruno, that UX/UI work starts with an audit of what already exists: pages, content, actual usage. Development follows, in-house. A redesign that ignores the old site tends to copy its flaws.

For the Alaska State Archives, the public body that keeps the state’s records, Bruno redesigned the interface within the constraints of government and gave the archive documents pride of place. For Celeres, which builds software for mission-critical work in space, defense and public services, the agency created the identity and a new website. Where reliability matters, so does design.

Bruno settles who approves what, and at which stage, right at the start. In Washington, between federal agencies, associations and think tanks, a site often goes past lawyers, communications teams or boards. So we put clear-cut choices on the table at the right time, site map first, then designs. A shared prototype takes fewer meetings than a forty-page PDF.

Yes, and Bruno deals with accessibility from the first mockups rather than at the end. Contrast, text size, keyboard navigation and alt text get decided alongside the visual style. In the US, federal websites have to comply with Section 508, so for any organization it applies to, those requirements go into the brief from day one. A site everyone can read simply gets used more.

A redesign with Bruno takes two to four months on average, from the first workshop to launch. For a public body or a nonprofit, the schedule depends on the approval process more than on the number of pages. A well-defined scope and available decision-makers keep it at the short end. Committees, of course, keep their own calendars.