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Web Design Company

Chicago is a cutting-edge city, and Chicago businesses deserve—in fact, they need—a cutting-edge website to compete in the vigorous Windy City marketplace.

Befitting the name “design,” web design is partially about visual appeal. The customer experience starts with the eyes. Websites can become out-of-date in subtle ways, undermining the brand experience in ways that visitors can’t quite put their finger on.

By contrast, an updated website that focuses on the customer experience creates a seamless experience. Rather than standing in the way, it enhances the customer experience, guiding them smoothly through a carefully-calibrated customer journey. Our Chicago web design services aren’t just about a website looking good, though … it’s also about making the website easy to find. Search engine optimization (SEO) starts with web design. An up-to-date, well-designed, mobile-responsive website will get more traffic and convert that traffic at maximal rates.

Digital Authority Partners is one of the most talented design agencies we’ve ever worked with. They are very receptive to feedback and their turnaround on revisions is incredibly quick. They provide amazing mood boards and then help you narrow down your choice before creating pixel perfect, beautiful and intuitive designs.
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We won’t just design your next amazing responsive website.
We help you grow your digital presence as well.

Strategy
Content
Design
Development
Analytics
Growth
Market And User Research

We don’t rely on guesswork, gut feelings, or even our experience when it comes to strategizing your Chicago web design project. We go to the market, analyzing competitors to see what is working for them and what gaps you can fill. We evaluate the demand for your products or services, as well as your customer needs and how those needs drive their behavior as web users. We leave no stone unturned to envision a digital experience that actually converts.

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Stakeholder Interviews

In addition to going out into the market for insights on your Chicago web design project, we also look inward. DAP interviews all stakeholders in your organization, including managers, marketing and brand specialists, IT specialists, product managers, and sales teams. We assess their needs and build a strategy to fulfill all of those needs in one elegant website.

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Brand Strategy

Your Chicago web design project must be executed in harmony with an overall brand strategy. The website is just part of it. Every time a user encounters your brand, it must be unified by visual aesthetic and message. If your brand strategy is at all unclear, we get it into good shape so your web build can be brought into alignment and serve your brand, rather than undermine it.

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Feature Ideation and Prioritization

Modern websites don’t just sit there inert—they actually do things. Our Chicago web design services include strategy sessions to determine, “What must this website actually do?” Sell products? Stream videos? Provide social proof? Book appointments? Offer software as a service? Based on market research and stakeholder interviews, we drill down to the most important functions your website must perform. Figuring out how to get your website to do it is for later. For now, let’s let our imagination run wild. Maybe we’ll come up with something entirely new!

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Content Inventory and Audit

Our Chicago web design services include an accounting of all the content assets you currently have, including written content, videos, audio and podcasts, social posts—any value-giving content you have access to. Some of it may be able to be tweaked to target higher-value keywords; some content can be repurposed to expand your content footprint easily.

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User Personas

A “user persona” is a kind of avatar of your target customer. A user persona may be assigned an age, a sex, a typical occupation, an income bracket, a collection of hobbies and interests, etc. Your organization may actually have several relevant user personas, and user experiences can be customized to each of them. DAP’s Chicago web design services include the assembly of several user personas to guide our web experience design. 

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Content Gap Analysis

A gap analysis assesses where you need to be, versus where you are at. A content gap analysis looks at what your users are looking for in terms of value-giving content, and how well the content you currently have fulfills that need. Discovering where your content comes up short compared to user questions helps our Chicago web design specialists devise a content strategy to fill that gap.

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Style Guide

The Chicago web design specialists at DAP won’t be the last people to generate content for your brand. With multiple people generating content, how do you make it speak with one voice? By cataloguing our content principles into a style guide, a kind of “rule book” for content creators who represent your brand. As long as they follow the style guide, your website will always communicate with one integrated voice.

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Prototyping

Like physical products, websites can benefit from a prototyping process—the creation of functional versions of the site that potential users can try out to test site functions and identify problem areas. The goal of a prototype isn’t to present the finished, polished product, but the prototype is often the stakeholders’ and users’ first chance to see the website in action. DAP’s Chicago web design services include functional, minimal viable prototypes.

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UX & Design

UX (“user experience”) is just that—the user’s experience of the website. Product managers tend to think of the experience itself as the “product.” Great web UX is critical to your brand’s credibility, before the product is even in the customer’s hands or the services rendered. Our Chicago web design services include meticulous attention to UX, employing best design practices and split-testing different designs with actual users.

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Animations and Illustrations

Modern users expect websites to offer immersive “digital experiences.” It can’t just be an online resume or bulletin board—the best websites feel like organic things that respond to user input and interaction, creating a sense of connection before the user has actual contact with a brand employee. DAP’s Chicago web design services use animation and illustration to engage and delight users on every level.

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Design Systems

A “design system” is like a style guide, but for the visual design of your website. As with a style guide, a design system operates on the principle that your DAP Chicago web design team won’t be the only people tweaking the design, performing updates, fixing bugs, or having an impact on the design. A design system gives subsequent team members a “user’s guide” for web design that they can follow to maintain unity of design—so that all subsequent updates and design tweaks integrate organically into the website.

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Web Apps

Web design may just be the beginning. Our Chicago web design services start with the understanding that we may be designing your site to function as a “web app.” Our services  include coding of the web app, as well as adaptation of that functionality into an actual mobile app.

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Responsive Web Design

No website succeeds at UX or SEO unless it is designed to be responsive to screen size, including the smaller screens of tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices. DAP’s Chicago web design services always include a mobile-responsive web design that looks just as elegant on a small screen as it does on a large screen, with no loss of content or performance.

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Optimized for Search

The best chance to achieve search engine optimization is right out of the gate. Our Chicago web design services include industry-leading SEO enhancements across your website and its content. This allows search engines to discover the new site quickly, favorably assess its domain authority, and rack as highly as possible from the get-go.

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Safe and Secure

Cybersecurity is everyone’s concern. 60% of small businesses fail within six months of a successful cyber-attack, while major hacks have cost enterprises millions of dollars in liability and bad PR. DAP’s Chicago web design services protect you with end-to-end encryption, hashing, and compliance with internationally-recognized public data controls for your users’ peace of mind.

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KPI Definition

Modern web analytics allow website owners to track and measure just about everything about users’ behavior on the page—time on page, unique visitors, repeat visitors, bounce-back rate, abandoned carts, and much more. It can be hard to know which metrics matter and which ones are just noise. Our Chicago web design services include the installation of analytics, as well as a sensible monitoring plan that focuses on the key performance indicators (KPIs) that actually matter to your new website’s performance.

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Event Taxonomy Creation

An “event taxonomy” is a kind of answer key for interpretation of user behavior based on KPIs. They form a kind of “Rosetta stone” for your site’s performance. Your site’s event taxonomy, created by DAP and designed to be user-friendly, will help you monitor KPIs like a pro long after your Chicago web design project is delivered.

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A/B & Multivariate Testing

A/B and multivariate testing is how you figure out which headline gets the most time-on-page, which color palette correlates with higher buying temperature, which image gets customers clicking that “Add To Cart” or “Book Now” button. It can be tedious and exhausting for beginners … but the Chicago web design experts at DAP are no beginners. They have the experience and the patience to perform rigorous A/B and multivariate testing to get you the best-converting web design possible.

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Reporting & Analysis

DAP’s Chicago web design team doesn’t install analytics and track KPIs for our own benefit. We keep you constantly in the loop with reporting and analysis of KPI performance, soliciting feedback and partnering with key stakeholders in the process. It’s your website; you should know what’s working, what isn’t, and have a say in the direction at all junctures.

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Search Engine Optimization

SEO … the much-vaunted, much-misunderstood science and art of increasing domain authority in the eyes of ranking algorithms used by search engines like Google to decide which fortunate page ranks #1 on SERPs. From technical SEO to backlinking, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do SEO. DAP’s Chicago web design services include professional attention from award-winning SEO experts, the best SEO team the Windy City has to offer.

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Email Marketing  

Web design and email marketing go hand-in-hand. Together with the digital customer journey and automated email responses, email and web design work in together to form a “sales funnel” to extract the maximum lifetime value out of each lead, customer, and visitor. Rather than treat them as separate entities, DAP’s Chicago web design experts develop the web funnel and the email funnel in tandem so they work together to drive leads and sales.

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Paid Search  

Paid search campaigns through search engines, social media platforms, and other web-based forums are one of the easiest ways to “buy” customers—that is, once your new website is calibrated and proven to convert. It’s simple, if the math works—that is, can you “buy” a customer for less than they will eventually generate in profit? Getting the math to work usually requires a delicate balance of KPIs and keyword targeting. Your Chicago web design services from DAP can be tailored to incorporate industry-best paid search campaigns that generate significant ROI on your ad investment.

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Marketing Collateral 

“Marketing collateral” includes fliers, brochures, banners, scripts, sales videos … everything your marketing team needs to do its job. DAP’s Chicago web design services include a full suite of customized marketing collateral that follows the newly-established style guide and design systems to align with your website and all other brand marketing materials. 

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Helping local Chicago businesses with their
Web Design needs since 2015

Healthcare websites in Chicago have more heavy lifting to do than ever before. From clinics to regional hospitals to medtech companies, healthcare has been forced by necessity—and by innovation—to adopt a more consumer-oriented approach, favoring transparency, accessibility, and value-based pricing systems, as opposed to the antiquated fee-for-service model. 

Patients expect an immersive digital experience from their doctors—especially for specialists and private care providers—just as they would expect from their favorite restaurants, blogs, or e-commerce stores. They now expect to be able to book appointments, log into a back office to view their appointment details, pair health apps and wearable devices, transmit data to their doctors through IoMT devices, and much more.

DAP’s Chicago web design services help healthcare providers and medtech companies update their digital experiences to the standards patients expect—standards that will set them a cut above competitors they never had to worry about in the past.  Our web design services for the healthcare industry help clients with:

  • Establishing and tracking KPIs
  • Updated and beautiful UX and design
  • Automated patient journeys
  • Patient portals and SaMD integrations

Despite the growing pains, the digital revolution in healthcare has changed the industry for the better. DAP Chicago web design services help healthcare organizations not only compete, but reap the rewards of a lucrative new delivery model.

Few industries have leapt forward in the past decade like financial services. DAP has maintained close relationships with the robust financial services industry in Chicago, which performs half of all the public trading of securities in the country. Move over, Wall Street—the Chicago financial district is the real heart valve of American and world commerce.

In the process of building a sterling track record in the financial services and fintech industry through our award-winning Chicago web design services, we have had the privilege of a front-row seat in the explosion of the industry. The DAP leadership team has extensive experience in fintech, their opinions followed closely by top agencies.

We help companies with:

  • Data security, encryption, and controls
  • Client portals and UX
  • Branding and messaging
  • SEO and digital marketing
  • Email and content marketing
  • User behavior and competitor analysis 

Much of DAP’s reputation in web design is built on our successful partnerships with fintech and financial services companies. We’re thrilled with the results we have produced for our financial clients, and we know you will be too.

Few industries have leapt forward in the past decade like financial services. DAP has maintained close relationships with the robust financial services industry in Chicago, which performs half of all the public trading of securities in the country. Move over, Wall Street—the Chicago financial district is the real heart valve of American and world commerce.

In the process of building a sterling track record in the financial services and fintech industry through our award-winning Chicago web design services, we have had the privilege of a front-row seat in the explosion of the industry. The DAP leadership team has extensive experience in fintech, their opinions followed closely by top agencies.

We help companies with:

  • Data security, encryption, and controls
  • Client portals and UX
  • Branding and messaging
  • SEO and digital marketing
  • Email and content marketing
  • User behavior and competitor analysis 

Much of DAP’s reputation in web design is built on our successful partnerships with fintech and financial services companies. We’re thrilled with the results we have produced for our financial clients, and we know you will be too.

The internet has forever changed education—making knowledge more accessible and affordable than ever before. But while the wide dispersal of knowledge is undoubtedly good for humanity, this also presents new challenges for institutes of higher education. With all of human knowledge online and a crisis of credibility and “fake news” in full swing, the world needs the pedigree of respected and accredited colleges, universities, and academies more than ever.

DAP’s Chicago web design services help institutions turn the internet into an asset rather than treating it as a hindrance to the Ivory Tower of academia. We have helped prestigious Chicago universities build and refine their online education presence. We also help national, accredited e-learning brands expand their footprint in Chicago, one of the largest and most intellectual markets in the US.

Our Chicago web design services for educational institutions address:

  • The e-learning customer journey and online course UX
  • Content marketing that works for education
  • Web funnels, email funnels, and automation
  • Digital archive management
  • Design and brand messaging 

Education has defined the success of every generation and will continue to do so, in Chicago and beyond. DAP’s Chicago web design services, for both Chicago and national institutions, help bring the values of discipline and intellectual rigor into the digital era.

Few industries represent the dominance of the digital experience like Ecommerce, a business model that depends entirely on the digital experience. Our Chicago web design services help Ecommerce brands compete with industry giants, define unique brand messaging, and carve out a niche and market share.

This includes helping Chicago eCom startups, as well as helping national brands expand their footprint in the Windy City. It includes pure Ecommerce companies, as well as non-Ecommerce organizations that also monetize their brand through an online store as a separate revenue stream.

Either way, our Chicago web design services for Ecommerce companies include industry best practices for online store design, including:

  • Meticulous selection and tracking of KPIs
  • Design of buyer personas and customization of customer journeys
  • Automated sales and email funnels that maximize customer lifetime value with less input from sales and support staff
  • Integration for dropshipping and payment API

DAP’s Chicago web design services have an impressive track record of producing results—and revenue—for top and up-and-coming brands. Whether it’s unsticking the customer journey or building an online store from the ground up, DAP’s Chicago web design team is up to it. We have designed hundreds of Ecommerce stores for dozens of industries. We know how to do it right. Period.

Many manufacturers have gone a long time thinking they don’t need a website … or at least, they don’t need a great website. After all, the manufacturing industry has been around since long before the internet. DAP makes it a core mission to help manufacturers with our Chicago web design services— showing them the value of a great digital experience for their brand.

Our web design services put the stamp of credibility and forward-thinking on manufacturing organizations. We help manufacturers:

  • Install analytics and establish KPI benchmarks
  • Build a sleek, modern web experience worthy of a 21st-century manufacturer
  • Optimize for mobile and SEO
  • Develop an app-based buyer experience for easy customer relationship management and order flow

DAP has provided expert Chicago web design services to dozens of manufacturers, helping them expand operations, increase profitability, or build their footprint in Chicago.

Chicago’s lawyers are some of the best in the world—brilliant fighters and tireless advocates. They deserve equally meticulous Chicago web design services to advocate for themselves and their practices.  Facing stiff competition, Chicago attorneys benefit the most from Chicago web design services when they take a content-forward approach. It takes more than just having a beautiful, responsive website to attract and convert legal clients. Often facing stressful situations, potential clients are looking for information and assurance. DAP provides content solutions that address key client concerns.

SEO is a challenge in a field as competitive as legal. Lawyers need SEO experts, not beginners, to succeed in Chicago local search rankings. Whether it’s a local firm or a national firm that wants to grow in Chicago, DAP has an excellent track record of SEO success for attorneys and legal practices.

Our Chicago web design services help attorneys:

  • Automate the customer journey for seamless lead acquisition
  • Provide clients with secure client portals where their sensitive information is kept safe
  • Mobile responsiveness and SEO
  • World-class legal content deployment

DAP knows what it takes for an attorney’s digital experience to succeed—and we know how to deliver on it.

Great web design can make or break B2B professional services. Most vendors shop for these businesses online, and a great digital experience isn’t just the best way to wow them and build confidence in your brand. It can also automate the entire customer journey for B2B clients.

DAP’s Chicago web design services arm professional service providers with everything they need to turn their website into a major source of revenue. We install world-class analytics to discover what is already working, fix what isn’t, and start from scratch with a complete redesign and local anchor page as needed.

We don’t rely on gut instinct, creating a website we hope will work for you. We track KPIs, get feedback from users on prototype websites, and perform exhaustive split-tests to make sure our web design services deliver the most effective, functional, and beautiful website in your niche.

Steps we take to deliver a great B2B professional service website include:

  • Target customer and market analysis, including the development of buyer personas to craft customized buyer’s journeys
  • Feature-rich websites backed up by direct marketing and SEO campaigns
  • Web, email, and content funnels to capture and convert leads while you sleep

Some of our greatest successes have been brand-boosting websites for professional service agencies. No matter the niche, DAP’s Chicago web design services can craft a website that converts.

As a future-focused agency, DAP takes a strong interest in the near-miraculous innovations that have emerged from biotech. We have a long history there; several of our managers are biotech thought leaders, and we maintain strong relationships with firms and labs working on the cutting edge in biotechnology.

We are thrilled that our Chicago web design services can play even a small part in the work done by leaders in biotech. The truth is that when you work on the cutting edge, your website has to match. Biotech companies live or die on credibility, and a solid digital experience is one of the best shortcuts to credibility.

When a biotech breakthrough makes the news, interested consumers want to learn more, and they will go looking for the headline-maker’s website. Our Chicago web design services arm biotech companies for this scrutiny with:

  • Industry-leading UX and design
  • World-class, informative content unified by a strict, industry-literate style guide
  • SEM, SEO, and analytics assistance with KPI monitoring to assess site performance

DAP is proud of its biotech partnerships, and its role in delivering transformative results through our Chicago web design projects in the biotech industry.

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Find out why so many businesses have placed their trust in DAP for their Chicago Web Design project

  • We’re Experienced. DAP has offered Chicago web design services to some of Chicago’s most notable organizations and enterprises, including universities, government bureaus, fintech, biotech, and eCommerce—along with startups and Fortune 500 companies. No job is too big or too complicated. If you can imagine it, we can do it.
  • We Deliver On-Time and On-Budget. DAP doesn’t just offer world-class Chicago web design services. We also deliver responsive, optimized websites according to a strict schedule and budget agreed upon in advance. Our experience enables us to set realistic benchmarks, which we stand by, without the delays and overages that some of our customers have experienced in the past.

  • We’re Award-Winning. Awards aren’t the be-all-end-all of Chicago web design services … but they sure don’t hurt. Our Chicago web design services have earned awards from many organizations. It’s gratifying. Not as gratifying as the positive feedback from our clients … but we’re pleased to be recognized by our peers. We see our awards as a high standard that we strive to live up to.

  • We’re Future-Focused. Web design is an inherently future-focused enterprise by necessity. Failing to keep an eye on the ball can result in a website that becomes outdated quickly. We’re constantly on the lookout for ways to future-proof our Chicago web design services, making websites that serve as profit engines for our clients for years to come.

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  • 15% Reduction in cost to serve by leveraging business intelligence solution
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Room to Read

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  • Drove incremental sales through new service offerings
  • 3X Increase to Robosoft organic traffic within 8 months.
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Why work with us on your next
Chicago Web Design Project

Concept

No Chicago web design agency succeeds by winging it. Journeys require roadmaps, and the concept phase of your web design project is the process of building that roadmap. At no point in your web build will there ever be confusion about what’s next, what we’re trying to accomplish, what we’re building toward in crafting the perfect digital experience for your brand.

We start by getting feedback from stakeholders and customers, identifying objectives, analyzing competitors, and building a “wish list” of website functions. We then assemble a plan for a digital experience that checks all the boxes in a logical sequence, forming an outline of the perfect user experience and customer journey.

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Design

The design phase is when DAP’s flair for visual artistry bears dividends. Our expert Chicago web design team begins to assemble a working model of what your site will look like, seamlessly incorporating logos, split-tested color palettes, high-definition image and video assets, and a sense of balance and aesthetics. Our goal is to envision a website that is not just functional, but unique and beautiful.

“Wow factor” is another key component to providing an outstanding user experience. We plan our sites to include reveals, animations, and micro-interactions that make the site feel like a living thing, an active and immersive experience. We integrate this “wow factor” with an eye toward maintaining site performance and SEO.

Development

When your Chicago web design service enters into the development phase, our coding and WordPress teams take the roadmap created in the design phase and put it into action. We have defined the functions each page and subpage is meant to serve … now it’s time to craft a digital experience that actually implements those functions.

Our developers follow the approved designs, with fine attention to detail. The finished site must be mobile-responsive, fast-loading, and optimized for SEO with proper header nesting, meta tagging, and alt text. We also develop sites with an eye toward ADA compliance and scalability—your website must be accessible, and able to be expanded upon.

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Launch and Maintenance

Once the development phase has ushered the site through prototyping, split-testing, and user testing, it’s time to launch! We debut your new digital experience with all the fanfare it deserves—a website that both looks beautiful and pulls its weight, a website your brand can be proud of.

Our Chicago web design services don’t stop there, however. Websites require constant updating and maintenance to remain relevant. Our designers and developers stay on the job to tweak the site aesthetically, iron out bugs, respond to user feedback, and deploy an ongoing content strategy.

SEO & Marketing

Now that your beautiful and functional new website is up and running, the next step is to actually put it to work. Your website isn’t just for looks—it’s the focal point for a digital marketing strategy where all roads lead back to your digital experience, calibrated to the customer and optimized to convert.

Before your website can do this important job for your brand, your target audience must find the website. Our Chicago web design service includes careful attention to on-page and technical SEO. The next step is a backlinking and content marketing campaign to build your domain’s authority and improve its organic search rankings. This strategy can be paired with a digital marketing strategy through the use of paid ads and other top-of-funnel tactics to bring traffic to your exquisite new website.

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