Chicago's Web Design Partner
Chicago web design for the Midwest's financial firms, manufacturers, B2B suppliers and consumer brands. A diverse economy means diverse buyers, so we build structured, fast websites with clear conversion paths that rank for the searches each of your audiences actually makes.
Real Mojo Dojo clients, on the record.
Trusted by 1,500+ brands across 81 industries
Websites that explain complex businesses to expert buyers.
World Business Chicago describes Chicagoland as an $886 billion regional economy in which no single sector exceeds 13% of GDP. The largest employer group is trade, transportation and utilities, at about 933,400 jobs, followed by professional and business services and then education and health. A lot of the companies we talk to here sell something hard to explain in a tagline: freight capacity, contract manufacturing, industrial equipment, benefits consulting.
Those buyers do their homework. A procurement manager comparing three logistics providers wants lanes, capabilities, certifications and a quote path, not a hero video. A plant engineer looking for a supplier wants spec sheets and tolerances. When the website hides that information, or buries it in PDFs, the shortlist gets made without you. B2B niches are less crowded in search than legal or health care, but they reward sites with genuine, structured detail.
Larger organizations have a different challenge. The metro is home to 30 Fortune 500 headquarters, and multi-division companies need one design system that keeps brand, navigation and compliance consistent across business units. We build both on WordPress, and choose Magento, BigCommerce, PrestaShop or Shopify when there is a parts catalog or B2B ordering to support.
Language and geography matter as well. About 35.4% of city residents aged 5 and over speak a language other than English at home, and the metro reaches into Indiana and Wisconsin. For consumer brands we often plan Spanish pages and suburb or neighborhood templates from Evanston to Naperville, so visibility does not stop at the Loop.
This page covers Chicago; for the national picture see Web Design USA. Operating in other cities? See New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin and Miami.
This service pairs well with WordPress Development, Shopify Development and SEO in Chicago. For the full list, see our Chicago services.
Web design in Chicago: a diversified economy.
Figures from the BLS, the Census Bureau and World Business Chicago, each named below.
Industries we help in Chicago.
The sectors that anchor the regional economy, and what each needs from a website.
Transportation, logistics and distribution
Service and lane pages, capability matrices and quote request flows for carriers, 3PLs and wholesalers, built so procurement teams can compare you fast.
Advanced manufacturing
Product catalogs, spec sheets and RFQ forms for contract and precision manufacturers, with CAD downloads and technical detail engineers expect.
Professional and business services
Expertise-led sites for consultancies, law and accounting firms with practice pages, attorney or partner bios and gated thought leadership.
Health care and education
The fastest-growing major sector. We build accessible clinic and training provider sites with booking, program finders and bilingual content.
Financial services and insurance
Compliance-friendly designs with disclosures, calculators and approval workflows, designed to earn trust in a contested category.
Hospitality, conventions and events
Restaurant, hotel and venue sites with fast booking paths, ready for the summer peak, Lollapalooza and the convention calendar.
Does your Chicago website explain what you really do?
Tell us about your buyers and your offering. We will reply with a platform recommendation, scope and timeline.
Websites that convert, not just look good.
Real figures from Mojo Dojo client case studies, where site structure, speed and conversion paths were part of the work.
Your website has seconds to earn the next click.
Technical buyers want detail, and corporate teams want consistency. A good website delivers both without making visitors dig.
Capabilities buried in PDFs
Engineers and procurement teams cannot find specs, certifications or service coverage, so you drop off the shortlist before anyone calls.
Technical detail that is easy to find
Structured capability, product and industry pages with filterable specs and clear RFQ paths, all indexable by search engines.
A clumsy mobile experience
Layouts built for desktop first break on the devices most people browse on.
Seamless on every device
Our designs ensure a seamless user experience across desktop and mobile devices, proven by responsive and browser testing before launch.
Every update needs a developer
Small content changes turn into tickets, delays and invoices.
An intuitive backend you control
Our intuitive backend management system makes it easy for you to make quick updates and changes as needed, and we train your team to use it.
A beautiful site nobody finds
Design without search architecture leaves you invisible where buyers are looking.
SEO built in from day one
Semantic structure, schema markup, page speed optimization and analytics configured as standard on every build.
Divisions with mismatched websites
Multi-division companies end up with separate sites, templates and messaging that confuse buyers and dilute the brand.
One design system across the business
A shared design system and component library that keeps branding, navigation and compliance consistent across business units.
Platforms we build on.
We are platform-agnostic. A 3PL, a parts distributor with B2B ordering and a law firm each need a different CMS, so we recommend based on your goals, scale and integrations.
WordPress. The world's most popular CMS, powering 43% of all websites. We have built over 1,500 WordPress sites since 2008, from small businesses to enterprise-scale platforms with complex custom post types and advanced SEO architecture.
Shopify. The ecommerce platform built for growth. We design conversion-optimized Shopify stores with custom theme development, app integrations, and SEO-first architecture that turns browsers into buyers from day one.
BigCommerce. A scalable SaaS ecommerce platform with built-in SEO tools, multi-channel selling, and enterprise-grade features. Ideal for rapidly growing stores that need power without the complexity of a self-hosted solution.
Magento. Enterprise-grade ecommerce for complex product catalogs, multi-store environments, and high-volume transactional requirements. Magento gives you total flexibility when your business has outgrown simpler platforms.
PrestaShop. A lightweight, open-source ecommerce platform with a global community since 2008. PrestaShop is well-suited for businesses that need a cost-effective, customizable storefront without the overhead of enterprise platforms.
Custom Development. Sometimes no off-the-shelf platform fits. Our development team builds fully bespoke web applications and headless CMS solutions for businesses with unique functional requirements that standard platforms cannot satisfy.
Our web design and development methodology.
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Brainstorming
You will meet with the development team to brainstorm and provide a brief of your online design requirements, vision and objectives. A feasibility study follows, with a project plan that gives you a better understanding of your target audience and the competitive landscape. Covers: understanding your target audience, choice of a custom CMS, the architecture design of your website, and finalization of website feature requirements.
User Experience and User Interface
Mojo Dojo's designers create a fluid UX and UI experience with on-brand visualizations of your website in Adobe XD. Covers: incorporating your brand into the design, website layouts designed in Adobe XD, review of the layouts, and finalization of navigation and design layout.
Custom Management System Development
The conversion from UX/UI design to a content management system takes the longest time in the project. The CMS is industry compliant, with support available from Mojo Dojo or the online community. Covers: custom development, calls to action, plugins, extensions and apps, SEO integration, and framework.
Testing Process
Before launching the final product, we perform thorough technical and user acceptance testing to ensure a high-quality, user-friendly website. Covers: responsive design testing, browser testing, functional requirements testing, and usability testing and improvements.
Training and Support
After launch, we run a website training session with your staff on navigating the content management system, in person or online. Ongoing support is available to enhance or edit the website on request. Covers: website backend training, in-person or online training, dedicated support, and phone or email support.
Website Maintenance
We highly recommend regular website maintenance to improve the security of your website. Regular updates add new features and functionality and reduce the risk of being hacked. Covers: updating the CMS and database to the latest version, updating plugins, extensions and apps, and regular backups of the website.
Get your free website design audit.
Send us your URL and within 48 hours we will review your website design, information architecture, page speed and conversion paths, and show where buyers drop off. No calls, no obligations.
Our five-stage project process.
All website projects go through five main stages. We map your buyers and competitors, plan the information architecture around how they evaluate suppliers, and turn concepts into draft designs for review. The process has been refined across 1,500+ projects in 81 verticals.
Brainstorm
We define your target audience, select the right CMS, map the information architecture, and identify the features and integrations your site needs to compete and convert.
UX/UI Design
We create high-fidelity wireframes in Adobe XD, incorporating your brand identity, navigation logic, and conversion-focused layouts. You review and approve before a single line of code is written.
CMS Development
Custom theme and plugin development, CTAs, SEO integration, schema markup, page speed optimization, and framework configuration. Built to spec, not templated.
Testing
Responsive testing across devices, cross-browser compatibility, functional QA, form submission flows, page speed benchmarking, and usability review before any site goes live.
Training & Support
We train your team to manage the backend confidently. Ongoing support, maintenance packages, and performance optimization ensure your site stays fast, secure, and competitive long after launch.
Areas we serve in Chicago.
We work remotely with businesses across the city and the wider metro, over video calls with shared staging and reporting. In the city that includes the Loop, River North, the West Loop, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Pilsen and Hyde Park.
In the suburbs we build for firms in Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Rosemont, Oak Brook, Naperville, Aurora, Elgin, Joliet and Waukegan, and across the state line in Hammond, Indiana.
Selected results.
Featured work from our international client portfolio, included to show the approach rather than results for businesses in this city.
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
The framework we use to build websites that sell.
Most websites are built by people who think about how they look. This one is about how they sell: the funnel, the proposition, and the landing page, in the order you should work on them.
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Free. 14 pages. In your inbox. Magic-link delivery, it arrives in about two minutes, and there's no sales call attached to reading it.
Do you work with Chicago businesses?
Yes. We work with them remotely, running discovery, design reviews and CMS training over video calls, sharing a staging site throughout the build, and providing shared reporting on performance and leads after launch.
Can you build a B2B site with a product catalog and RFQ forms?
Yes. We design catalogs with filterable specifications, downloadable data sheets and CAD files, and request-for-quote forms that route to the right team. If you need customer-specific pricing or online ordering, we build that on a platform suited to B2B commerce.
How do you keep websites consistent across several divisions?
We build a shared design system: a component library, templates and style rules used by every division site. Each business unit keeps its own content, while navigation, branding and compliance elements stay consistent and are updated in one place.
Can the website integrate with our ERP or CRM?
Usually, yes. We regularly connect sites to CRMs, marketing automation and inventory or ERP systems so quote requests, product data and customer records flow without re-keying. During scoping we document each integration, the data it moves and who owns it, so your IT team knows exactly what is being built before development starts.
How long does a new website take to build?
Most projects land between 6 and 12 weeks from signed scope to live launch. Simple brochure sites on WordPress can be done in 4 weeks. Complex ecommerce builds with custom functionality or data migrations run 12 to 16 weeks. We set a realistic timeline at the start and hold to it with weekly progress updates.
Which platform is right for my business?
It depends on your goals. WordPress is the right choice for most content-heavy businesses, professional services firms, and brands that want maximum SEO flexibility. BigCommerce suits mid-market retailers that are scaling fast. Magento is for enterprise ecommerce with complex catalog requirements. We give you an honest recommendation based on your specific situation, not on what is most profitable for us to build.
Do you include SEO in your web design projects?
Yes, always. Every site we build includes on-page SEO setup as standard: semantic HTML structure, schema markup, XML sitemap, Robots.txt, canonical tags, page speed optimization, and Google Analytics 4 configuration. For clients wanting ongoing SEO campaigns post-launch, we offer integrated web design and SEO retainers that give you a single, coordinated team across both disciplines.
What happens after the website launches?
We include a 30-day post-launch support window on all projects. During that period we fix any bugs or inconsistencies at no charge. After that, clients can move onto a monthly maintenance retainer that covers updates, backups, security monitoring, and priority support. We also offer ongoing SEO retainers to help the site rank and convert over time.
What is the difference between web design and web development?
Web design is how your site looks, reads and flows: brand, layout, navigation and user experience, which we map in Adobe XD. Web development is the build: turning the approved design into a working CMS with custom functionality, integrations, SEO and speed optimization. We deliver both as one project with one team, so nothing gets lost in the handover.
Will I be able to update the website myself?
Yes. Every site comes with an intuitive backend management system, and after launch we run a training session with your staff, in person or online, covering how to edit pages, add content and manage the CMS. Dedicated phone and email support is there if you get stuck.
Can you redesign or rebrand my existing website?
Yes. We handle CMS redesigns, redevelopments and rebranding projects. Depending on where you are in your branding lifecycle, we scope the work and show you what your brand will look like on completion before development starts, and we protect existing search rankings during the rebuild.
Will my new website work on mobile?
Yes. Every design is responsive and tested before launch across devices and browsers, alongside functional requirements testing and usability review, so visitors get a seamless experience on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Why choose Mojo Dojo for web design?
We have built 1,500+ websites since 2008 across 81 verticals, we are platform-agnostic so we recommend the CMS that fits your goals, and we build SEO and conversion tracking in from day one. Our clients stay with us: 94% client retention and a 4.7/5 average rating across 200+ reviews.
Get your free website design audit.
Send us your URL and within 48 hours we will review your website design, information architecture, page speed and conversion paths, and show where buyers drop off. No calls, no obligations.