Services
Discover
By starting with curiosity and open dialog — about your goals, your vision, what’s working and what’s not — we deliver a web strategy that fits your unique project.
Create
Collaboration is central to our creative process. Our design team engages you early with concepts and design reviews, ensuring a shared vision and polished final product.
Evolve
Your goals may change over time. We’re here to maintain, refine, and grow alongside you.
Strategy
Every strong digital strategy starts with the right questions. Projects begin with a deep dive into your goals, stakeholders, and the people who will use the final product. Then we apply our deep understanding of the university to deliver a strategy grounded in evidence. The final product is crafted to meet Stanford’s web standards and best practices.
- Project discovery
- Digital strategy
- Stakeholder & user research
- Information architecture
Design
Design is done with care for the details and collaboration with you to create a distinct visual identity — whether that’s classic Stanford branding or something unique. From simple annual reports to complex, API-driven applications, our team builds flexible design systems where every interaction is intuitive, consistent, and crafted to a world-class standard.
- Visual & interaction design
- User experience
- Prototyping
- Design systems & guidelines
Engineering
Built for where you are now and where you’re headed. Technology should be easy to use and maintain, and able to change as your goals evolve. Our team takes the time to understand how you work, then chooses the best-in-class tools to fit — not the other way around.
- Website production
- Custom development
- Site building
- Animation & motion design
Continuous support, security, and performance
Ongoing support services are built for the long term: keeping your platform secure, high-performing, accessible, and effective with the backing of a team you can count on. That means regular security and accessibility updates, infrastructure maintenance and monitoring, and support that’s there the moment something comes up.
- Security & maintenance
- Hosting support
- Analytics & UX monitoring
- Accessibility support
Flexible to how you work
Choose the level of support that fits your project. Whether you need an extension of your team, on-demand specialists, or trusted advisors, Stanford Web Services offers a wide array of services and adapts to your needs.
Extra hands when you need them
Get help maintaining website content during your busy season. Save the hassle of finding freelancers to help complete a large project. Our team is here to step in when you need it, so that you can stay on track.
Fluent in agency-speak
Need a partner to translate communication goals into technical requirements? We’ll work directly with your vendor, making sure they understand both your needs and Stanford’s web standards.
Fill gaps
Need data on user behavior to inform project strategy? Already have branding and designs, but need help to bring it to life? Does your development team need occasional access to design expertise? Our UX and design team can step into a project that’s already in motion—with whatever teams and resources you’ve got lined up.
Level up
We collaborate with your team to keep your digital presence up to date while meeting Stanford’s security and accessibility standards, and making sure your content is easy for both people and AI services to find.
Technologies
We work in…
We’re not tied to one platform, language, or approach. We choose whatever technology fits the problem and, in the spirit of Stanford’s culture of innovation, we’re always up to try something new.
- Drupal
- Storyblok
- Figma
- React
- Next.js
- Astro
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Algolia
- Coveo
- Netlify
- Vercel
- Acquia
- Pantheon
- Git
- Tailwind CSS
- Storybook
- WordPress
- Looker Studio
- Google Analytics
- And more...
Our clients
SWS maintains trusted, long-term partnerships across Stanford, providing strategic expertise and reliable technical support for schools, institutes, and organizations of all sizes.
