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.
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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 25 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.
Minneapolis Made vs agency, freelancer, and template builders.
Three traditional options — agency, freelancer, template — and one hybrid. Here's the honest tradeoff between them so you can pick the one that actually fits your business, not the one with the loudest sales page.
The hybrid
Senior craft, studio capacity
$85/hr
Billed weekly. No retainers, no packages.
- Christopher Merry leads design + code. Pixel-perfect Figma to live site.
- Five-person studio. Team handles content, edits, ongoing care.
- 98 Lighthouse, 2.2-sec LCP. SEO built in.
- Minneapolis since 2000. 500+ Twin Cities projects.
Twin Cities Agency
Team, fixed bundles
$10K–$50K+
Fixed bundles. Change orders for the rest.
- Account manager fronts a junior designer and junior dev.
- Custom, often on the same internal Figma kit across clients.
- SEO usually a separate retainer. Performance varies.
- Twin Cities address, but work often offshored or junior-staffed.
Best fit
You need a 30-person team for an enterprise launch with a 6-figure budget.
Solo Freelancer
One person, variable
$50–$150/hr
Or per-project quotes. Highly variable.
- Strongest in one discipline (design or dev, rarely both).
- Custom design only if the freelancer is actually a designer.
- Performance hit-or-miss. Depends on the individual.
- Strong until they take a salaried job and disappear.
Best fit
You have a clear spec, a tight budget, and tolerance for risk.
Template Builder
DIY, monthly fee
$15–$50/mo
Plus your time. Looks cheap until you count it.
- You build it. Forum support when something breaks.
- Stock templates with cosmetic tweaks.
- Bloated CSS, slow Core Web Vitals, weak SEO.
- SaaS company three time zones away with a help center.
Best fit
You're testing a side project and don't yet need to be findable.
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, the same person does both. Christopher Merry designs your layout, writes the code, and ensures the live site matches the mockup pixel for pixel. 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.
Tools & Platforms
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 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.
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.
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that gets it right the first time.
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Minneapolis Made
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Service Area
Web design services for businesses across the entire 7-county Twin Cities metro area: Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Anoka, Washington, Scott, and Carver counties.
Where we work in the Twin Cities
Headquartered on Aldrich Avenue South in Minneapolis. Dedicated landing pages for the suburbs we work in most often.
Also serving Maple Grove, Wayzata, Minnetonka, Eagan, Burnsville, Woodbury, and the broader Twin Cities metro on a project basis.