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We make complex websites better, accessible, clear, effective, consistent, flexible, manageable
Featured work.
Our goal — with every project — is to make YOUR goals easier to achieve.
Providing a Usable and Accessible Banking Experience
To some, a bank’s front door is the website, which means the website needs to be as inclusive as the building itself.
A Fresh Look for a Minnesota Institution
Updating the design for Minnesota State University Mankato in a way that didn’t remake the entire website.
Iterative Technical Planning: A Smoother Development Cycle
Gradual technical scoping leads to a more informed — and smoother running — project. Here’s how we did it.

The Web Project Guide
A guide to understanding the web design and development process. Buy the book, read each chapter, or listen to the podcast!

Digital Optimization at Blend
Blend maintains a website's progress and performance after launch through our Digital Optimization practice.
News and thoughts from Blend Interactive.
One of Blend’s core values is a dedication to advocacy and progress — to expand upon and give back to the community that fuels us.
Five Ways Umbraco Helps Editors
Talk around content management systems so often focuses on features and technological advances. But there’s another side to the equation: the people who use the content management system as an editorial tool.
A Quick Definition of Scrum
In project management, the process of Agile development is dependent on a pretty important element: the “scrum” — a quick meeting designed to level-set before work begins. Here's how Blend puts it to use.
Announcing Blend.Optimizely
Announcing release of Blend.Optimizely, a collection of helpful utilities for Optimizely CMS 12 sites from the development team at Blend.
Blend’s Karla Santi Named South Dakota’s Small Business Person of the Year
Congratulations to Blend CEO Karla Santi on being named one of the Small Business Association's People of the Year for 2022!