About Us

• We are a boutique Washington, DC based agency comprising highly talented and extremely experienced industry consultants. We live and breathe the web – it is our passion for the industry that is the foundation of our agency.
• We invest in people and we believe that great talent will do great work; allowing great talent to do great work is a philosophy, business-model and a promise.
• We create web-based strategy and design solutions. We believe that design, when done correctly, produces an inclusive and elegant result; that’s where the name “nclud” comes from.
• In 2011 our team won the prestigious award, “Website of the Year”, from .net Magazine; in 2012, we won again; in 2010 we were one of five agencies internationally nominated for “Agency of the Year”.
• We implement best practices that complement and are inherently incorporated as a part of effective and successful strategy; from branding to information architecture to visual design to technical development.
• nclud was formed to be an agency that could focus on creating an environment for creative talent to flourish while ultimately providing its clients with the most innovative, creative and flexible solutions for the web.
• Our team comprises industry speakers and authors; presenting at conferences such as Future of Web Design, Front-Trends, and published in Smashing Magazine and .net Magazine, to name a few.
• Our studio is located in downtown Washington, D.C., two blocks from The White House; boasting a 7,000 square foot highly creative and custom designed space.
• Our designs, while aesthetically pleasant, also encompass industry best-practices in information design, usability and accessibility across browsers, users and mediums.
• In addition to being industry speakers and authors, our team is composed of educators; sitting as adjunct teachers at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Boston University (CDIA).
• Our agency culture is community-centric; we’re heavily involved in design organizations such as AIGA, Refresh, Cocoa Heads and are even sit on the Board of Directors of organizations such as The Art Directors Club.
• Our team has a reputation industry-wide for modern web-based design and development; our experiments and code have been complimented as well as utilized by industry leaders such as Apple, Google, Oracle and Adobe.