Design & UX.

We’re an accredited Centra and Shopify Plus Partners. As such, our design skills and experience have been thoroughly vetted. We’ve also got a long list of design accolades to our name from organisations like the Awwwwards and CSS Design Awards.

Our designers are General Assembly qualified and consistently nail both form and function with personality-packed designs and super-sharp UX. Working hand-in-hand with our optimisation and development teams, we ensure your web design is perfectly on brand and user-friendly.

Known for our creative flair in both design and technical matters, we’re constantly immersed in producing the perfect solution to new eCommerce challenges. From fashion, gifts, and homeware to sports, food, and drink, our design expertise spreads far and wide. Browse our case studies to see how our designs have helped elevate these brands to grow faster.

At blubolt, we specialise in custom theme designs that capture the personality of each brand we work with.

Unsurprisingly, the overall costs of a custom theme will largely depend on the complexity of the design and build. After a quick, obligation-free chat about your eCommerce project requirements, we can give you a ballpark starting price for your project. Typically, our design and build projects start at £80,000. From there, we can put together a detailed proposal with specific estimated costs for the whole project (see details on project proposals below). Contact us today to get the ball rolling on your project!

The length of time - from discovery to design to launch - will greatly depend on your specific design requirements. After discussing this with you, we’ll prepare a full proposal that includes timescales tailored to your project. Generally, we typically estimate a nine-month timescale for a more complex custom theme development project.

After contacting us to discuss your design requirements, we’ll respond with a detailed proposal covering key areas like:

• Custom design services and processes. We’ll explain what we do, how we do it, and who does it! In short, you’ll know what’s happening at every stage of your bespoke project, from discovery, design, and build to UAT and launch. We’ll also outline our post-launch optimisation and support services.

• Project inclusions. We’ll advise what services are included (like technical and design workshops, frontend build, and data migration, to name a few) as well as the specific website pages and integrations included within the project scope.

• Costs. We’ll give you a clear breakdown of proposed costs for items like the custom theme design and build, retainer-only and optimisation services, and fees.

• Timings. We’ll give you an estimated timeframe for the completion of your development project.

We’ll chat through the proposal on a video call, so you’ll have the opportunity to meet the team and ask as many questions as you like! Naturally, you’ll need time to process the information afterwards, but we’re on hand to answer any follow-up queries you may have.

We certainly can! Our growth and optimisation packages - which form your bluprint for success with blubolt and Centra or Shopify - can be tailored to your specific needs and include the following:

• Growth packages. We can take over managing your existing website and provide services like website development, design refreshes, and partner recommendations, as well as deliver ad hoc project work. Our thorough onboarding process means you’ll hit the ground running. We’ll organise your website code into our super-sleek blubolt folder structure, whereby each section of your code is broken down into smaller, consistently labelled folders. This becomes our pristine ‘source of truth’ so we can effectively and efficiently manage your website while keeping a clear record of changes. And, crucially, multiple blubolt developers can work on your site without any confusion! Read more about our growth packages here.

• Optimisation packages. Want to unlock your site's full potential with our expert CRO insights and enhancements? With our entirely in-house team, you’ll enjoy a seamless end-to-end CRO service. We offer three optimisation packages - BluGrowth (starter), BluOptimisation (advanced), and BluData (monitoring) packages. Read more details on our optimisation packages here.

Our design team is a fully in-house service. We have flexible working arrangements, so our team is based at home and at our fun and friendly office, located on the world-famous Queen’s Square in Bath, Somerset. Spread over several floors of a historic Georgian terrace, it’s the perfect hub for our energetic, creative, and collaborative team. Contact us to arrange a visit to discuss your design needs!

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blubolt has been a trailblazer for beautiful, bold and technically brilliant eCommerce stores since 2006. First powered by our own platform, bluCommerce, we now channel our custom design theme and development expertise into Centra and Shopify Plus. Browse our client work to get inspiration for your own project!