Minneapolis Web Design
Company.
The Minneapolis web design company local businesses call when they want a site that actually converts. Founded in 2000, billed at $85/hr with weekly invoices, serving the Twin Cities metro from Downtown to the suburbs. Every layout, every interaction, every pixel earns its place.
Verified Proof
We tested 21 Minneapolis web design agencies. We ranked #1.
Our site scored 98 on Lighthouse mobile with a 2.2-second LCP, the fastest in the Minneapolis market. See every agency's actual Lighthouse score, including the 16 that failed Core Web Vitals.
See the 2026 Speed Report →Design that sells.
Not just looks pretty.
Discover
We study your brand, audience, competitors, and goals. Design without strategy is just decoration.
Wireframe
Low-fidelity layouts that nail the information hierarchy, user flow, and conversion paths before any visual design.
Design
High-fidelity mockups with your brand colors, typography, imagery, and interactions. You approve every screen.
Refine
Two rounds of revisions included. We tweak until every detail is right and the design feels unmistakably yours.
Build & Launch
Pixel-perfect code, mobile-first responsive, Core Web Vitals optimized, and live on your domain.
What types of websites
does Minneapolis Made design?
UI & UX Design
Interfaces built around how real people think and click. We map user journeys, test assumptions, and design layouts that guide visitors from landing to conversion without friction.
Responsive Design
Mobile-first layouts that look sharp on every screen size. We don't shrink a desktop design to fit a phone, we design for small screens first and scale up intentionally.
Brand & Visual Identity
Color systems, typography pairings, iconography, and visual language that make your brand instantly recognizable. Consistency across every touchpoint, digital and print.
Conversion-Focused Design
Strategic placement of CTAs, trust signals, social proof, and form design backed by 30 years of watching what actually makes people click. Pretty doesn't pay the bills, conversions do.
Accessible Design
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance built into the design process, not patched on later. Proper contrast ratios, keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and semantic structure from day one.
Website Redesigns
Outgrown your current site? We redesign from the ground up while preserving your SEO equity, content, and URL structure. Most redesign clients see a measurable lift in conversions within 90 days.
Why does web design matter for Minneapolis businesses?
Visitors form an opinion about your website in 50 milliseconds. That's faster than they can read a single word. In that blink, your design has already told them whether you're credible, professional, and worth their time. A dated or cluttered layout sends them straight to a competitor.
Good web design isn't about making things pretty. It's about making things work. Where does the visitor's eye go first? What do they click next? How many steps stand between them and the action you want them to take? These are design questions with measurable, revenue-impacting answers.
In the Minneapolis market, your website is often the first real interaction a customer has with your business. It's your salesperson, your storefront, and your brand ambassador rolled into one. A $500 template site tells your customers exactly what you think they're worth. A custom design tells them you take your business, and theirs, seriously.
Why does having one designer-developer matter?
At most web design companies in Minneapolis, the person who designs your site and the person who builds it are two different people. The designer creates a beautiful mockup. The developer interprets it. Details get lost. Spacing changes. Animations get cut. The final product looks "close enough" but never quite right. We've watched this pattern repeat across Twin Cities agencies for decades.
At Minneapolis Made, Christopher leads both. He designs your layout and writes the production code, with a small family-owned team behind him supporting the build. That means the creative vision survives all the way from concept to production: no telephone game, no compromises, no "we couldn't quite get that to work."
It also means you get a designer who understands technical constraints. We won't design something that looks amazing in Figma but tanks your page speed. Every design decision accounts for performance, SEO, and accessibility because the person making the design decision is the same person who'll be writing the code. After 500+ projects for businesses across Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, and beyond, that instinct is built in.
Behind Christopher, a small editorial team of five handles content production, copy edits, and ongoing site care. Five people supporting one set of creative hands. That's the hybrid: the senior craft of a freelancer-style principal, with the capacity and continuity of a studio. No junior handoffs on creative work, but no single point of failure either. It's the middle option most Twin Cities businesses are actually looking for, somewhere between a one-person shop and an agency with layers.
Why hire a Minneapolis
web design company?
Because a website has two jobs and most of them only do one. It has to be found, and it has to convince. A designer who has never watched a Google ranking move will build you something beautiful that nobody sees. A marketer who has never written production code will hand you a page that ranks and then loses the visitor in twelve seconds.
Working with a local studio changes something more practical than either. We can sit in your conference room. We know that a roofing company in Blaine and a law firm in the IDS Center are selling to two different Minneapolis, and that a site built for one will quietly fail the other. That context does not come through on a discovery call with an agency three time zones away.
The other reason is accountability. When your site is slow, when a form stops sending, when Google reshuffles the results in April, there is one phone number. Nobody is going to tell you it is the developer's problem, or the host's problem, or the SEO vendor's problem, because all of those are the same people here.
Agency, freelancer or DIY builder:
which one do you actually need?
There is no universally correct answer here, and any agency that tells you otherwise is selling. The honest version is that each option is right for a specific situation, and the expensive mistake is picking one that does not match yours.
The pattern we see most often is a business that bought at the freelancer tier when it needed the studio tier, then paid twice. A site that looks good and ranks for nothing is not cheap, it is just deferred. Remediation projects we quote typically run $4,500 to $7,000 on top of whatever was already spent, and about half of that is undoing rather than building.
The reverse mistake is real too. If you are a two-person operation whose customers all arrive by referral, a $10,000 website is not an investment, it is a nice thing you bought. We will tell you that on the call.
Related reading: what web design actually costs in Minneapolis and agency versus freelancer, compared honestly.
One rate. Weekly invoices.
No packages.
Most Minneapolis web design pricing is a fixed number attached to a tier name, which sounds reassuring and tells you nothing. You cannot see whether the quote covers forty hours of senior work or a hundred hours of junior work, and you find out only when the revisions start.
We bill $85 an hour, invoiced weekly against hours actually worked. You see what was done and what it cost while the project is still moving, not in a reconciliation at the end. There is no minimum, no annual contract, and no hand-off to someone junior after the sales call, because there is no sales call.
A small-business site typically lands between 50 and 100 design hours. A redesign that includes new branding runs higher, and commerce adds more again. We scope every project before starting, so the estimate is anchored to your actual page count and functionality rather than to a tier we would like to sell you.
Want a real hour estimate for your build?
Send us the pages you need and what the site has to do. We come back with a scoped hour range, not a tier name.
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Frequently Asked Questions
About Web Design in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Made bills web design at $85 per hour, invoiced weekly. No retainers, packages, or fixed-price bundles. A small-business brochure site typically runs 50 to 100 design hours, a redesign with new branding runs 80 to 160 hours, and a custom Minneapolis e-commerce or membership site runs 150 to 300+ hours. We scope every engagement after a free discovery call so the hour estimate matches your actual goals.
Web design focuses on the visual layout, user experience, branding, and how visitors interact with your site. Web development is the code that makes the design functional: backend logic, databases, APIs, and server configuration. We handle both under one roof.
Most website design projects take 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff to launch. Discovery and wireframing is 1 to 2 weeks, visual design is 2 to 3 weeks, and development plus revisions fills the rest. Complex projects with custom illustrations or animations may take longer.
Yes. We redesign existing sites while preserving your SEO rankings through proper URL mapping and 301 redirects. Many clients come to us after outgrowing a template-based site and needing a custom design that better represents their brand. Our current in-progress rebuild for Goldberg & Loren is a good example, see the Goldberg & Loren redesign case study for what an outgrown-site rebuild looks like end to end.
Every website we design is mobile-first responsive. We design for phones first, then scale up to tablets and desktops. Over 60% of web traffic is mobile, so we treat small screens as the primary experience, not an afterthought.
We can guide your content strategy and recommend professional photography or stock image sources. Some clients provide their own copy and images, while others hire us to handle copywriting and source visuals. We're flexible either way.
Ask to see a portfolio of live, clickable sites rather than screenshots, whether they design custom or drop your business into a template, how they handle mobile and page speed, who owns the files when the project ends, and how they bill. Insist on a recent Twin Cities example and a single clear point of contact. Minneapolis Made designs every site custom, hands you full ownership, and bills $85 per hour with no packages. For the full checklist, see our guide on how to choose a web design company in Minneapolis.
You do, completely. The domain, the hosting account, the code, the design files and the CMS administrator login are all yours and stay in your name. We have onboarded Minneapolis businesses who paid several thousand dollars for a "custom" site and never received their WordPress credentials, which meant they were renting their own website. Ask any designer this question before you sign, and get the answer in writing.
Both, depending on who has to run the site afterwards. WordPress makes sense when your team needs to publish and edit without calling us, and we build a custom theme rather than dropping you into a purchased one. A hand-coded static build makes sense when the site changes rarely and speed matters most. We recommend the one that fits how you actually work, not the one that is easiest for us to produce.
Every build includes a post-launch window where we fix anything that surfaces in real use, at no additional cost. After that, ongoing care runs $50 to $300 per month depending on how much the content changes, covering updates, backups, security monitoring and small edits. It is optional. If you would rather maintain the site yourself, we train your team and hand over the keys.
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that gets it right the first time.
Tell us about your business. We'll show you what a custom design can do for it.
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Minneapolis Made
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Service Area
Full website services for businesses across the entire 7-county Twin Cities metro area: Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Washington, Scott, and Carver counties.
Industry Web Design
Web Design by Industry
Conversion-first sites built around the way each industry actually wins work.
Where we work in the Twin Cities
Headquartered in downtown Minneapolis. Dedicated landing pages for the suburbs we work in most often.
Plus Wayzata, Saint Louis Park, Richfield, Hopkins, and the broader 7-county Twin Cities metro on a project basis.