Boostonlinepresenceandbrandawareness
Your website is often the first touchpoint for customers. We design sites that capture attention and communicate your brand message clearly.
WebsiteDesign
Convert customers, multiply revenue.
Creative Direction
Website Design & Development
Responsive Design
SEO Strategy
UI/UX & Product Design
Framer Development
Creative Direction
Website Design & Development
Responsive Design
SEO Strategy
UI/UX & Product Design
Framer Development
Creative Direction
Website Design & Development
Responsive Design
SEO Strategy
UI/UX & Product Design
Framer Development
The stakes
WhyWebsites?
A well-designed website can be your most powerful marketing tool. Here are some of the common goals we help our clients achieve:
Increaseleadsandconversionsthroughuser-friendlydesign
We focus on designing web experiences that encourage visitors to take action, increasing your leads and sales.
Refreshoutdatedwebsitetomeetmodernstandards
We help modernize your site to align with today's digital landscape, ensuring your business stays relevant.
AIassistantsskipitentirely
Answer engines quote pages that state things plainly. A site written as mood copy gives them nothing to lift, so it never enters the recommendation.
All four are decided before the first screen is designed. That is why we start there.
Whatyouget
Design and search visibility are the same job, done by the same team, from the first wireframe.
A site people actually find
Keyword research based on real search intent, benchmarked against what you already rank for. Page structures built from that research, so the pages you want found are the ones built to be found.
A site AI engines can quote
Clear answers near the top, clean structure, and real prose. We check what AI assistants currently say about your category, then write pages that answer the prompts being asked.
Two languages when you need them
If Japan is part of your plan, both language versions are normally part of the project rather than an add-on, each written for its own audience rather than run straight through a translator. If it is not, we build the one and the price reflects it.
Editable by your team
WordPress, Framer, or a custom front-end, handed over with training. We pick the platform around how often you publish and who maintains it, not around what we prefer.
Built to convert
Page structure follows how people actually decide, not how your org chart is drawn. Lead capture goes where the intent is, not only on the contact page.
We come back at 90 days
Included in every project, not billed. We review what moved and hand you the next two or three things worth doing. Almost no project-based studio does this.
CorporateWebsites
Your digital headquarters.
Build a website that works as hard as you do.
ProductMarketingWebsites
Showcase your innovation.
Design websites that turn products into must-haves.
UI/UXDesignforWebApps
Intuitive interfaces, unforgettable experiences.
Design apps that users love to use.
MarketingLandingPages
First impressions that last.
Create landing pages that turn visitors into leads.
Who we are
Whoyou’dbeworkingwith
Skydea is a design studio building websites, brands, and digital products. We have worked this way since 2018, remotely by default, in English, with companies in the US, Europe, and across Asia.
We are based in Tokyo, which helps if Japan is part of your plan. Japanese-language work and local contracting are handled in-house. If Japan is not part of your plan, it changes nothing about how we work together.
We build our own products too, so we know what happens after launch: the part where a site either earns its traffic or quietly sits there.
- designing and building since
- 2018 designing and building since
- Clutch awards, 2024
- 2 Clutch awards, 2024
- both languages when you need them
- EN + JP both languages when you need them
Remote by default, working with clients worldwide.
CaseStudies
Case study
Bringing gambling-blocking app Gamban to Japan
We helped Gamban enter the Japanese market with a culturally sensitive landing page.
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Case study
Your second home in Tokyo.
We created Besso Hotels' name, identity, and brand system through refined digital design.
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Case study
Corporate website for luxury real estate company
Visual identity and website design & development for luxury real estate company Blackship Realty, operators of popular high-end properties platform Tokyo Portfolio.
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From past clients
Skydea was the dream team to work with. We used Skydea's service to build our website for our new cafe, shop, and event space. Many elements of the business were not exactly fixed causing delays to our overall website development however they were patient, and understanding throughout the whole process while executing all of our wishes for the website. Skydea will find a way to get your website the way you want it, promptly and most importantly in great spirit.
Skydea did everything from strategy to coding, and had excellent communication. They were not only fast but flexible, and we were able to massively improve our website's UX/UI and SEO. We're seeing SEO growth and it's only been a few months! We'd love to continue working together!
I'm delighted to share that our Tokyo Portfolio website has been thriving since its launch. The traffic has consistently been on an upswing, moving from nearly no visitors to a 30k views per month. We are aspiring to reach even higher goals.
We are happy with the outcome, having received a site that is not only visually appealing but also versatile and user-friendly, allowing us to easily create landing pages and effectively showcase the Ship&co App. Our heartfelt thanks to the Skydea team for their great work.
This is the first time we've been able express ourselves so clearly.
WhattoExpect
A quick overview of how it's done, so you know exactly what to expect
InitialCall
Let's chat about your goals and aspirations, and what would help you get there.
Proposal
We'll write you a proposal that clarifies deliverables, timeline, and budget.
Signing
We'll refine the content of the proposal together, then move onto contract signing. Once that's done, let's begin!
Investment
From$4,000
A single landing page starts at $4,000. Most websites land somewhere between there and $50,000, because a one-page campaign site and a fifty-page build in two languages are not the same job.
You get a fixed quote in the proposal, three to five business days after the first call. Fixed in writing before anything starts, with no hourly billing. SEO and GEO are included in all of it, not billed as a separate line.
Included in every build
- Design: structure, wireframes, and the finished pages
- Build and launch, or a clean handoff to your own developers
- A second language where you need one, normally included rather than priced separately
- Keyword research benchmarked against your existing rankings
- Page structures built from that research, shaped around your content
- A forward list of content worth building after launch
- A free check-in 90 days after launch
What moves the price
Scope, roughly in order of impact:
- Page count
- How much of it is designed from scratch rather than reused
- Integrations with tools you already run
- How much content we produce rather than receive
- Ongoing publishing needs, which decide the platform
A standard website runs 8–12 weeks. Branding alongside it can extend the timeline to 16.
How we work
How we build for search and AI visibility
“SEO from the first wireframe” sounds like a slogan, so here is what it actually means in practice. Before we design a page we work out what people search for on the way to buying what you sell, which of those terms you already have a foothold on, and which are realistically winnable. That research decides the site structure: which pages exist, what each one is for, and how they link to each other.
This has to happen at wireframe stage because structure is the one thing you cannot cheaply change later. Search engines understand a site through its architecture: which page is the authority on a topic, which pages support it, how they are linked. Decide that badly and the fix is a rebuild rather than an edit, which is why so many redesigns quietly lose the rankings the old site had.
Sites in more than one language add a second layer of problems that most studios discover late. Each version needs correct hreflang so the two do not compete with each other in search. The keyword sets are genuinely different too: search terms in one language are rarely direct equivalents of the other, and the intent behind them often differs. Build the second language as a straight translation and you inherit the first language’s keyword strategy, which is almost never what those searchers are typing. We see this most often with English and Japanese, but it holds for any pair.
Answer engines have changed what a page has to do. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI summaries cite pages that state things plainly and early. A page that opens with a mood line and makes the reader work for the answer gives them nothing to quote. So we put the answer near the top in full sentences, keep the important prose in the markup rather than behind tabs and accordions, and check what those assistants currently say about your category before we write anything.
None of this is a separate workstream or a line item on the invoice. It is how the pages get planned, and it is the reason we come back 90 days after launch to look at what actually moved.
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FAQs
Website design costs can vary depending on the scope of the project. Our web design & development packages typically start at $30,000 for a max 10-page template website, which usually covers most pages of a growing site. We'll provide a detailed quote after understanding your specific needs and goals.