We feel a strong, inherent responsibility at Thinktree Creative to help and teach others about good web design.
"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."-Confucius
Fostering a Love of Learning
Working with us is not an in-and-out the door process. From our complex roots, we have adopted the belief that the only way to learn is to make, to create things. To make mistakes and immediately correct and learn from them. Creativity is an organic process that emanates from the needs and the desires of the client, and not just a passive process where the client is at the whim of the collective. However, in order to be creative as professionals and consultants something magical and almost shamanistic must happen. The web designer, web developer, artist or whomever is consulting the client, must step into the realm of that client's mindset.
This is achieved not just through a couple of formal business meetings but through utilizing the time spent together with the client in a balanced and fair way of engaging them at a deeper level. It is our job to embrace the needs and the desires of the client, while seeking to grasp and develop the ability to amplify their vision. A client can only truly be happy if we have succeeded in surpassing your original expectation of us.
Diligent and Detail-Oriented
We've seen it all. From the simplest business-card like site to large corporate projects with massive coordination schedules and timelines. You can rest assured that we're ready and able to handle your on-demand need for
industry-standard creative work, web design or other services. Or web design is awesome, but it's not all we do. Companies hire us all the time to analyze their current sites, or to help them re-brand their companies. We're able to do all this and more.
At the core of this multi-disciplinary approach to web design, lies the key to our success: Attention to detail. But, just paying attention to the details isn't enough. Critical thinking and brute intolerance of design and development flaws contributes to a process that allows for the development of not only beautiful web design and efficient applications, but also a list of satisfied clients.
We never obligate our clients.
It is common practice in the media/web design world to use proprietary code or design things in such a way that using another firm in the future becomes difficult and so expensive for the client, that they are often times forced to reluctantly return to the originating firm, and forced also to pay unsatisfactory fees for what might be simple work.
This is not our approach. We never obligate our clients to return to us for web design or any other service. All of our code is clean, neat, well-documented and not proprietary. This allows any talented web designer or web developer to easily pick our work and continue working on it with little or no issue.
Why do we take this approach? Because our experience tells us that not obligating our clients is the best way to retain them and influence them to refer their friends and colleagues.
Thinktree Philosophy 101:
- We never obligate you to return to us in any way.
- At the end of your project, you will receive a supplementary CD/DVD media disc that contains all the source files (including graphic sources and stock images) for your launched project, cleaned, optimized and ready to use.
- You will always be able to rely on fair pricing, with no excessive padding or contractual conditions.
- The client will be involved in as much of the project as possible.
- We don't do substandard work. If you are looking for a "cheap" or "quick" site...tonight, we are definitely not the company for you.
- If you have a serious inquiry or need that we cannot meet or fulfill, we will gladly assist you and point you in the right direction for that service.