Designtank Website

About the Client: 👥 Designtank is an award-winning architecture and interior design studio based in Phoenix, Arizona, operating nationally for clients who expect more from their built environment. Founded by principal architect Tyler Kuenzi, AIA, the studio is known for bold ideas, rigorous execution, and a warm modern aesthetic that shows up across everything from infill residential homes to full commercial builds. Their work has been featured in Phoenix Home & Garden and consistently pushes the ceiling of southwest design. Their portfolio is stunning. their old website wasn't doing it justice.

designtank came to us with a clear ask: they needed a site that felt as considered, precise, and refined as the spaces they design. Architecture is an inherently visual discipline, and a clunky or generic portfolio site basically filters out the exact high-end residential and commercial clients they're built to serve. They needed a creative and technical partner who could translate the slow, intentional quality of their work into a web experience, with custom motion, editorial-grade galleries, and a CMS their team could actually run without calling a developer every time a new project wrapped.

What we used to complete this job: 🛠️

Framer for a fully custom, performance-optimized build with pixel-level control over every detail, typography, spacing, and transition

Custom Lottie animations woven throughout to add quiet, architectural motion, subtle line draws, reveal animations, and interface details that echo the precision of a construction drawing

Unique scroll-driven sections that pace the site like walking through a designtank home, moments of stillness, moments of reveal, never rushed

A fully interactive CMS setup that lets the designtank team add new projects, renderings, and press features on their own, with a structured schema for project type, location, photography, and status

A gallery-first project display system built around full-bleed, high-resolution photography, so every residential and commercial project gets treated like the editorial feature it deserves

A typography and spacing system designed to feel closer to an architectural monograph than a standard portfolio site

Considered hover states, smooth page transitions, and soft micro-interactions throughout, the kind of details that signal "this team sweats the small stuff" before a visitor reads a single line of copy

The results: 🏆 This project delivered a quiet, confident, portfolio-first website that:

Finally matches the caliber of designtank's actual work, bold, refined, and enduring

Gives the team a CMS they can run themselves, adding new homes and commercial builds without ever touching code

Uses Lottie animation and scroll interactions to bring an architectural sense of pacing and rhythm to the web, depth without distraction

Positions designtank in front of the high-end residential and commercial clients they're actively pitching nationally, not just regionally

Looks and feels like a studio you'd trust with your dream home, or your next commercial build

This was exactly the kind of project we love at WenLaunch, design-forward, detail-obsessed, and built for a founder who cares about craft as much as we do. The result is a site that feels like designtank: precise, warm, and built to last.

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