Locations — Los Angeles
Web Design for Los Angeles DTC & Beauty Brands
LA brands don't get discovered through a homepage — they get discovered mid-scroll. A founder interview clips on TikTok, a routine goes viral, and ten thousand people tap through on cellular connections from a parking lot on Sunset. DTC website design for this audience has one unforgiving requirement: be beautiful instantly, on a phone, on LTE.
Remote, by design
How we work with Los Angeles brands remotely
Beauty and wellness shoppers buy with their eyes, which tempts brands into heavy, cinematic sites that collapse under their own imagery. We build the opposite trade-off out of the equation: art-directed, visual-first pages that still render in under a second, because the architecture underneath is static and hand-coded. A beauty brand website here is judged between two swipes — it can't spend three seconds assembling itself.
The collaboration is async and writing-first, which suits founder-led teams juggling production runs, content days and pop-ups. Briefs, proposals, preview links and feedback all live in email or WhatsApp; nothing is lost in a call that never got a recap. We overlap PST mornings daily, decisions get documented, and your team reviews whenever the shoot wraps — 9 p.m. included.
If your current storefront already has the look but fails Core Web Vitals, the performance-rescue route keeps your design and replaces what's underneath. Either way, projects start at $5,000 with a fixed written quote.
Services
What we ship
- Custom Web Design & Development Bespoke design and hand-written code for brands that have outgrown templates. A site that looks — and performs — like the product it sells. from $5,000
- High-End Landing Pages Editorial campaign pages with custom animation and sub-second load. Built to carry paid and organic traffic without losing a click. from $5,000
- Website Performance Rescue Your design stays. The slowness goes. We rebuild heavy front-ends to 100/100 PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals that finally pass. from $5,000
- Astro & Zero-JS Development Marketing sites and storefront front-ends on Astro: zero JavaScript by default, rich motion, perfect Lighthouse scores, clean code. from $5,000
FAQ
Before you write in
Where are you based? What about time zones?
We're a remote-first studio working with US brands. We overlap with EST business hours daily, and because everything is written, time zones never block progress.
Why no calls?
It's deliberate. Written specs remove ambiguity, keep a full decision history, and respect your time. You get detailed proposals and annotated previews instead of meetings.
How much does a website cost?
Projects start at $5,000. Most land between $5,000 and $15,000 depending on scope. After your brief you get a fixed written quote — no hourly billing, no surprises.
My current site is slow. Can you fix it?
Yes — that's our Performance Rescue service. We rebuild the front-end to 100/100 PageSpeed while keeping (or upgrading) your design.