web Designer · Visual Thinker · Problem solver

Web design where every choice has a reason.

I'm Morgan — a web designer who builds brand-true, accessible sites for small businesses, and who genuinely enjoys the part where I walk a client through why it works.

My approach

Websites that feel considered — because they are.

Alongside years of brand and web work, I study instructional design — how people take in information, where attention goes, what makes something easy or exhausting to use. It's the same question a homepage asks, so I bring it to every project.

Visual design as function

Aesthetics aren't decoration — they're load-bearing. A cluttered layout spends attention that should be going toward the thing the visitor came to do.

Empathy in both directions

I listen to the business to understand what it needs, and to the person landing on the page to understand how it should be delivered. A site has to serve both to work at all.

Design thinking first

I try not to fall for a solution before I've understood the problem. Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — every time, at whatever scale the project allows.

Background

A little about me

I'm a multidisciplinary designer who builds brands and the websites that carry them — responsive, accessible, and built to hold up long after handoff. My work sits at the intersection of visual design, systems thinking, and how people actually take in information: I think about a homepage the way I think about a learning experience — as a sequence of decisions that either help someone get where they're going or get in the way. I'm a Squarespace Gold Partner with a certificate in Instructional Design, and I've designed and shipped client sites across construction, wellness, and professional services, with an emphasis on end-to-end project ownership, presenting design decisions clearly to the people who have to live with them, and craft that shows in the details.

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible.”

― Donald A. Norman