Building Modern Digital Experiences to
Today’s digital tools create powerful opportunities for social impact organizations. We build bespoke digital platforms that generate real-world impact.
Modernize Your Tech Stack
Empower your team to leverage the power of modern digital tools to reach new supporters, engage current advocates, tell your story, and create brand and cause awareness.
Beyond Digital Brochures
Ditch the static, inflexible sites of yesterday and build integrated digital experiences that inform, inspire action, and lead to real-world change.
Exceptional Design You Can Maintain
Our component-driven design systems are robust and flexible. Scale your digital presence, easily add or remove content, programs, and information — all while maintaining a cohesive, branded experience.
Work With Us
If you'd like to meet with us to explore our fit for helping you reach your goals, please fill in the form below.
Custom Website Design & Development
Designers at heart, we build websites, action centers, and media hubs focused on achieving your strategic goals with functionality to convert, engage, and delight.
Web & Mobile Apps
We bring over a decade of expertise to implementing complex digital platforms we design to move people up your engagement pyramid and grow your supporter community.
User Experience Design
We design based on user experience and accessibility best practices. Our goals are to streamline information, allow for deep dives, and reduce friction to taking action.
Action Centers
Modern supporters and advocates want to take action and make a difference. Our action centers help you activate your community to go beyond donations into building authentic relationships.
Digital Vision & Roadmapping
Develop a strategy for your digital ecosystem. We can help you embrace a digital-first culture, develop goals, and guide you in implementing a plan to reach them.
Information Architecture
Present ongoing and potential funders, partners and supporters with your theory of change, success stories, and ways to get involved through our detailed site mapping and information architecture process.
Microsites
Projects or programs that need their own sub-branding and experience may be candidates for a microsite. We can help you design, build, and work them into your content strategy.
We’re a team of creatives, strategists, and technologists dedicated to exploring how digital experiences can spark real world change.
“Cosmic shepherded the project from start to finish. They articulated the priorities of each phase, which allowed everyone involved to maintain a high level of care and attention throughout the multi-month project. Their team was both disciplined and adaptable, always seeking to create the best product possible while still meeting our deadlines. The result was spot-on branding for our new curriculum, housed on a handsome, zippy website that features top-line videos.”
— Teresa Ortega
Assistant Director of Curriculum and Operations, Stanford History Education Group
“The team at Design by Cosmic took the time to understand our needs. Their focus on strategy and regular sprint approach got us through some tough decisions with relative ease. They were always available to answer questions and to work with our processes while driving toward an outcome that we could all be proud of.”
— Crystal Birns
Communications Director, Arts Council Santa Cruz County
“It's important to us that our guests see the MAH as a hub that connects them with new art and ideas to enjoy. Now, our site makes this easier than ever to discover for themselves.”
— Jonathan Hicken
Director of Development & Partnerships, MAH
We created a new microsite that clearly places their Open Studios Art Tour marquee event under their umbrella through a clearly aligned visual brand experience.
We worked with their team to create a visual and written system that helps people understand their complex offerings and how they can be bundled as custom solutions.
We build separate digital experiences so that the Let’s Green CA movement can be explored in an Education Center that connects to an Action Center and vice versa.
Our strategic approach to the website was to create an interactive resource for the entire county that transformed their identity from internal facing to community centered.
Because visitors land on the site in a variety of places, the COR site’s simple navigation and content flow is designed to deliver the curriculum with minimal friction.
With so much happening at the MAH, we used Craft CMS to streamline the information architecture so that the website is easy to navigate and for their staff to update and maintain.
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