Higher Education
Higher education websites are complex systems. We help you make them work.
We have been working with colleges and universities from the beginning, partnering with departments, research institutes, and central teams to design and build websites that hold up over time.
Higher education websites are not simple marketing sites. They serve prospective students, current students, faculty, staff, researchers, and the public, often all within the same platform. Each group has different needs, and the system has to support all of them.
We focus on creating structured, scalable systems that can support this complexity. That includes clear information architecture, flexible content models, and design systems that can be reused across departments while still allowing for individuality.
UC Berkeley as a whole is our longest standing client, where we have worked with a wide range of groups including the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, and the Othering & Belonging Institute. These projects have ranged from individual department sites to broader platforms that support research, storytelling, and complex content relationships.
We also work with common higher education integrations such as directory systems, course and schedule data, and authentication systems like LDAP. These integrations are often central to how a university website functions day to day.
Accessibility is a core part of this work. Institutions are expected to meet accessibility requirements, but more importantly, their websites need to be usable by everyone. We build accessibility into design, development, and ongoing maintenance rather than treating it as a separate effort.
We bring deep experience with platforms like Drupal and WordPress, along with the ability to integrate search, translation, and other systems that universities rely on. Our approach is always grounded in long-term maintainability, not just launch.
Standardization plays an important role in higher education environments. Universities are constantly evolving, but their digital systems need to remain stable. We help teams strike that balance so they can move forward without creating unnecessary complexity.
Whether you are redesigning a single department site or building a platform that spans an entire institution, we help you create something that is structured, scalable, and built to last.
