Website strategy and content architecture
Audience research, page planning, content inventories, migration maps, and redirect planning. A clear structure helps visitors find information and gives your team a workable publishing process.
Brand design, websites, and custom development.
AK Design House is a design and development studio based in Norwalk, Connecticut. We connect brand development, custom websites, e-commerce, business systems, and native Apple apps around each client’s audiences and day-to-day work.
Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, working with businesses and nonprofits in New York and across the United States.
Strategy, design, and development in one independent studio.
Good design needs a strong technical foundation.
Your website should look distinctive, explain your business clearly, and work well for the people who use it. That means planning the content, performance, accessibility, integrations, and editing tools together.
Technical expertise with practical business value.
Interface design and front-end development
Original interface design built with responsive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Reusable components, semantic markup, keyboard access, and accessibility review support a consistent experience across screens.
Custom WordPress and WooCommerce development
Custom themes, templates, structured content, and staff-friendly editing tools. Commerce and integration work can connect product catalogs, payments, shipping, forms, APIs, and CRM systems.
Website performance and technical SEO
Responsive images, font optimization, caching, and content delivery networks, supported by Core Web Vitals testing. Search work includes page structure, metadata, structured data, redirects, and analytics.
Hosting, maintenance, and support
Managed hosting planning, DNS, SSL/TLS, deployments, backups, monitoring, updates, and access controls. Training and ongoing support are scoped around your team and the website’s needs.
Native Apple applications
Product strategy, interface architecture, design systems, and SwiftUI development for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, from prototype through testing and launch.
One senior partner from first conversation to final detail.
Our approach combines more than 20 years of web design experience with brand identity, photography, and hands-on development. That combination helps connect how a website looks with how its content, integrations, and day-to-day updates work.
We work closely with clients on website planning, design, and development. The work connects brand presentation with the content, editing tools, and integrations a team needs after launch. Project scope, training, and ongoing support are defined around the organization’s requirements.
For Elizabeth Eakins, the website serves a substantial network of interior-designer clients through collection browsing and product information. A custom backend gives its own team tools to upload patterns, organize collections, and build pages.
Examples include the Energos Infrastructure corporate website, which presents company and fleet information; the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society website, which connects visits, research, membership, and giving; and the ASMG B2B commerce portal, which connects company accounts, delivery locations, purchase orders, and fulfillment workflows.
20+
years designing and
building websites
building websites
- Direct senior involvement
- Design and development connected
- Training and documentation
- Ongoing technical support
Experience across organizations with very different demands.
Selected recognition
Three HOBI website honors.
Builder and community websites in the AK Design House portfolio have received these Home Building Industry Awards:
- 2015 · Best Builder Website: Karp Associates.
- 2016 · Best Community Website: Merritt Village, Fairfield County.
- 2021 · Best Community Website: The Vue New Canaan.
Sources: 2015 awards, 2016 award list, and 2021 winners.
For practical guidance on planning an engagement, read our website planning guides.
Tell us what your next website needs to do.
If your website needs clearer content, distinctive design, complex integrations, or a more reliable publishing system, let’s talk.