ABOUT

Escape Hatch is a digital agency specializing in highly-custom websites that stir emotion, tell your story, and convert users to customers.

What We Do

We build websites— the primary way customers form a first impression of your business. Through focused research, detail-oriented creative, and intelligent web development informed by experience, we have the team and the tools to take your website project from idea to launch. We create one-off digital experiences because, in an increasingly crowded market, creativity is a competitive advantage.

Services

Website Audits

Analytics Reviews

Stakeholder Interviews

Competitive Audits

Information Architecture

User Testing

Copywriting

Wireframing

User Experience Design

Asset Development (Photo/Video)

Prototyping

Digital Style Guides

Front-end Development

Back-end Development

Content Management Systems

Hosting/Server Configuration

Web Application Development

Accessibility Audits & Implementation

Analytics Implementation

Who we are

Al Harris

STRATEGY

Al pulls from a wide-breadth of knowledge in business & user experience strategy, research, brand positioning, and analytics. He loves tinkering with code, bourbon, and writing witty copy.

Matt Ivons

CREATIVE

Matt is an award-winning digital designer and creative director who’s spent the last 15 years building kick-ass websites & apps. Outside of the office, you can find him tearing up the local mountain bike trails.

sean sefcik

FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT

Sean has over 25 years of experience building performant front-end web experiences spanning large-scale site redesigns, business applications and responsive mobile experiences.

phil birnie

BACK-END DEVELOPMENT

Phil has 10+ years of experience developing and extending open-source web applications from simple tools to complex eCommerce integrations. He’s a fearless technologist and an avid city biker.

Client Experience

Our Process

How We Build Your Escape Hatch

Discover

We invest the time up-front getting to know your customers, products, industry, and team. By mining that data; those stories and perspectives, we uncover insights and approaches that form up the strategic foundation for the rest of the project.

Design

Our design philosophy is refinement through iteration. Utilizing an agile creative process, with a foundation of data and insights, we develop an engaging and intuitive user experience that will culminate in a solution that truly sets you apart.

Build

Built with users, scale, & future development in mind, we surround our award-winning user experience design with the security and performance your users need, and we put it on a platform that’s easy for you to manage.

Technology

Wordpress

We build and maintain Wordpress sites, write custom plugins, and have done some pretty fancy things with the Wordpress platform. There’s no project too big or too small for the versatility and ease-of-editing Wordpress allows. Ask about our experience building on the world’s #1 content management system.

woo commerce

WooCommerce is one of the most robust and feature-rich platforms to build a store and a business on. Our expertise in Woo goes back 8+ years, having built, extended, and maintained advanced WooCommerce-based stores with integrated inventory management, loyalty programs, and much more.

Shopify

Shopify provides all the right features to launch a store quickly and easily, but customization is often where Shopify owners get stuck. We develop custom themes and integrations that give your store the right look while making back-of-house processes run smoothly.

Squarespace

Our experience in customizing all aspects of the Squarespace platform means your brand can fully express itself without sinking time into learning a complex content management system. For small websites and eCommerce stores, we can help you get up and running quickly.