We're Sheila and Thomas.
We’re Sheila and Thomas, a husband-and-wife team in Lodi, California. She designs, he builds, and together we make brands and websites that look right and work right.
The two of us
Sheila
Every visual decision the studio ships is hers: brand identity, typography, color, every page, and the printed pieces that carry a brand off the screen. She starts with the people you serve, learning how they move through your site, what they’re looking for, and what keeps them from taking the next step. Then she reshapes it so the most important thing is the first thing they see, and more of the people you’re trying to reach actually take that step.
BS, Graphic Information Technology, emphasis in User Experience, Arizona State University
Thomas
He builds the sites, apps, and systems behind them, and when a project calls for something that doesn’t come out of a box, he writes it himself. Before he builds, he studies your market and what similar organizations have done, so the plan is shaped by what works. Everything he ships is fast, secure, and easy to keep up, because he believes a website is where a visitor decides whether to reach out, show up, or move on.
BS, Software Engineering, Arizona State University
Why we built Credo.
Sheila studied design because creating is what she loves to do all day. Thomas became a software engineer because he loves building things that work. We each chased our own passion, and over time we saw how naturally those two passions fit together. Credo is what happened when we decided to stop working side by side and start working as a team.
Getting to do work we love, together, and use it to help people is a dream we don’t take for granted. Sheila listens for what a client actually needs, which isn’t always the first thing they ask for. Thomas finds the real problem before he builds anything and explains it plainly. And because we’re both on every project from day one, nothing gets lost between how it looks and how it works.
You work with the people doing the work
Email us and one of us answers. Get on a call and you’re talking to the people who will design it and build it. There’s no junior to hand your project down to, and no account manager relaying your notes. We’re married, so nothing gets lost between design and build.
You own what we build
The design is yours. So are the code, the domain, and every word and photo you put into it. All of it is in your name from the first day.
So if we ever part ways, whoever you hire next can open the project and keep going, and we’ll hand them what they need to do it. A site that only stays up because you keep paying us is not something we want to sell.
Why these three, specifically.
We run a small business ourselves, so we know what a budget feels like when it comes out of your own account. It's why we open every project with the same question: if money weren't the constraint, what would you build? Then we work out how much of it we can build now. Faith and mission aren't a side note here: they're most of why we do this work.
Why Credo
Credo is Latin for “I believe”, the first word of the old creeds. Our son suggested it, and it stuck.