MAVE Design

Design and development, one set of hands. MAVE Design, Philadelphia.

Malachi Atkinson

Visual Experience Design

Websites for media brands, funded startups, and teams with something real to prove. Nothing gets lost between the design and the build.

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Why MAVE Design

When the pressure creates a diamond, we make it shine.

Anyone can generate a website now, so the ones that stand out are the ones built on a story worth telling. That is why every MAVE Design project starts with strategy, written for your business, before any design or code. The design serves that strategy and it is beautiful, the kind of site people stop on. The build serves the design. Every step is made with care and taste, by someone who knows what the tools get wrong.

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Strategy

Strategy is the product now.

Anyone can build anything. The question is what should be built. We work that out before a single screen is designed, and write it down in a custom strategy document made for your business, never a template.

02

Design

Designed to convert, built for your brand.

The design follows the strategy, never the other way around. Every layout is custom to your brand and built to convert, turning traffic into leads without cutting corners on the details that make it yours.

03

Development

Built from the ground up, to the design.

Design engineering on Webflow, WordPress, Astro, or custom code, with Sanity or the CMS that fits. The latest tooling and AI engineering, applied with the judgment of someone who knows the code underneath. Fast, SEO-ready, built to last.

Who we build for.

Organizations with a real budget and something to prove. The work is the same either way: figure out what the site has to do for the business, then build the thing that does it.

Outside those, we take on a small number of projects a year where the work is exceptional and the budget matches.

01

Media and entertainment

Brands with an audience to serve. Music, culture, sports, publishing.

02

Funded startups and B2B tech

Seed through Series B, where the site is part of how the company gets taken seriously.

03

Mission-driven organizations

Workforce development, education, and foundations with the resources to do it right.

Selected work from the studio.

All projects
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01 · 2026 · Nonprofit & Workforce Resilient Hires

A conversion-focused hiring platform and talent network connecting underrepresented software engineers with companies ready to hire. From brand system through a CMS-driven talent directory the team runs without a developer.

BrandingUI/UXWebflowCMSHubSpot
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02 · 2025 · Data & SaaS Datafold

Embedded two-year Webflow partnership with Datafold's marketing team. New pages, resource hubs, event landing pages, and company-specific pages that consistently outperformed general service pages on conversion.

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03 · 2025 · Data & SaaS Notarize

Webflow Enterprise partnership with Notarize's marketing team. Custom partner pages, A/B-tested homepage improvements that measurably lifted engagement, and a streamlined CMS.

Webflow EnterpriseA/B TestingCMS
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04 · 2026 · Personal Brand Ayanna Lott-Pollard

Brand strategy and an AI-assisted build for a nonprofit executive director. Positioning, answer-engine optimization, and a personal platform that carries her voice.

Brand StrategyAEOUI/UXAI-Assisted Development
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05 · 2025 · Professional Services BEI

Reworked exitplanning.com so a first-time visitor can understand what BEI does and find the path that fits them. New site structure, a guided homepage, a reusable design system, and a WordPress build, in six weeks.

StrategyUX & IADesign SystemWordPress
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Malachi AtkinsonFounder · Visual Experience Designer

Who I Am

Malachi Atkinson, founder of MAVE Design

The art of storytelling is what separates a beautiful design from a visual experience.
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With a foundation in UX research and over three years running MAVE Design, I build digital experiences that do more than look good. Every project starts with listening, thinking, and understanding what your business actually needs to grow.

Seven years across agency, in-house, and freelance. Webflow Enterprise builds for Notarize and Zearn at Belt Creative. Design engineering for teams that need one person to own both halves.

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