Now booking · July / August 2026

An online presence as curated as everything else you offer.

You've outgrown your template — the catalogue, the bookings, the brand no longer fit a theme. Going bespoke usually means a big agency, a bigger budget, and a handoff at launch. I design, build, and systematize your whole online experience — while empowering you to manage it yourself.

BASED IN VIENNA — WORKING WITH BRANDS WORLDWIDE

— WORK

Selected work.

— I · WHAT I DO

  • Shopify storefronts that respect the brand, with your ERP kept as the source of truth — catalogue logic, multi-language, metafield discipline. The operational depth heritage commerce needs to ship without compromising the editorial.

  • Editorial marketing sites for retreats and resorts, plus the booking and operations plumbing behind them. Storytelling up front, clean operations behind — so the front-of-house feels effortless.

  • Multi-property sites for alpine apartment-hotels and lodges — unit catalogues, availability, and a structure your team can keep running long after launch.

  • Conversion-focused marketing sites and storefronts a small team can ship from every week — design systems and CMS architecture built to grow with the team, not against it.

  • The bridge between your storefront and your ERP or inventory — sync jobs, nightly reconciliation, and the internal tools no customer ever sees. Usually the hardest, most valuable part of the build.

  • Three or four engagements a year, so each gets full attention from the first call to launch. No overlapping timelines, no junior team filling the gaps.

— III · WHAT I TAKE ON

Is this a fit?

A FIT

  • Heritage & luxury-lifestyle brands
  • A real product and a long time horizon
  • Working direct with founders & decision-makers

NOT A FIT

  • Logo-only or brand-only work
  • A slide deck as the deliverable
  • Competitive pitches or procurement chains
Capacity
Three or four projects a year
Formats
VIP days to full builds
First step
A thirty-minute call

— IV · APPROACH

How I actually work.

Most agency projects die in handoffs. Mine don't, because there are none. You talk to me on Monday, see the prototype Friday, and ship when it's ready — not when six calendars align.

  1. i.

    One head, full context.

    I do the design, the frontend, the backend, the integrations, the launch. Every decision has seen the whole picture before it got made — because the same person made all of them.

  2. ii.

    Systems, not pages.

    A website that looks great but can't talk to your inventory or your ops stack is half-finished. I build what's behind the screen: APIs, sync jobs, the internal tools your team actually uses.

  3. iii.

    Weeks, not quarters.

    Modern tooling and AI-augmented workflows, used seriously. Not as a marketing line — as the reason a two-month build now takes three weeks, without anyone cutting corners on craft.

  4. iv.

    Honest scope, honest pricing.

    If your project shouldn't be built, I'll say so. If it's a €15k job, it won't mysteriously become €60k. Full builds start at €10k, VIP days at €1.8k — posted publicly because I'd rather filter than negotiate.

— V · TESTIMONIALS

Six clients, in their words.

With Stephanie you get the expertise of an entire agency in one person. Her blend of creativity, technical know-how, and dedication makes her invaluable to any company making a first-class impression on the web.

Oliver Schacke

Founder & CEO, LuminoSana

Engagement · 2025 — Present

Working with Stephanie is always a delight. The best testimony is that I keep coming back for more, and she's the first person I refer my friends to. My only concern is she might become too busy to have time for me.

Richard Banfield

Strategic Advisor, Second Harvest

Engagement · Multi-year

Stephanie is a rock star. Not only is she responsive and quick, she advises us and codes our site in a way that makes it easy to manage and scale. Her thoughtful approach and smart insights have made working with her a pleasure.

Katherine Terrell

VP Creative & Design, Alto

Engagement · 2023 — 2024

Stephanie shipped major Webflow and CMS work for our NYC education startup in just a few days — and the documentation she left behind is so thorough my team can maintain it all independently.

Lawson Kuehnert

Executive Director, Outset

Engagement · 2026

Stephanie helped us take our website from design concept to live. Shipping marketing sites can be onerous — Stephanie makes it easy. She stayed with us through launch and well beyond.

Rachel Pike

Growth, Modern Treasury

Engagement · 2022 — Present

Finding an all-in-one designer, developer, and project manager is incredibly difficult — but Stephanie is all of those things. I'd refer her in a heartbeat and will be going back to her for future projects.

Engin Ayaz

Founder & CEO, Lead Sales

Engagement · 2023

— VI · METHOD

Four steps. One person.

  1. 01 / 04

    Kickoff, no theatre.

    One working call — the problem, the constraints, the budget. By the end I know what we're building and what we're not. No discovery phase, no separate alignment workshop.

  2. 02 / 04

    Prototype, fast.

    A staging URL within the first week or two, however rough. Decisions get made in the product, not in a Figma deck. The shape of the thing arrives early so we can argue with it.

  3. 03 / 04

    Ship in slices.

    I push small, push often. Real software lands every few days. Your team sees the build evolving in their browser, and feedback hits the code where it matters.

  4. 04 / 04

    Hand back the keys.

    Documented, deployed, owned by your team. Source, credentials, write-up. I stay on retainer if it helps; I don't disappear if it doesn't.

Stephanie Jones — independent designer and developer, Vienna
STEPHANIE JONES

— WHO YOU'D WORK WITH

Just me, start to finish.

I'm Stephanie Jones — a designer and developer working independently since 2008, and incorporated in Vienna as SJ Design & Development GmbH since 2018.

I take on a small number of luxury and lifestyle brands each year and see each one through myself: the design, the frontend, the backend, the integrations, the launch. No agency, no handoffs, no junior team between you and the work. And when it ships, you're not tied to me — it's documented, systematized, and yours to run.

— SJ

— VII · CONTACT

Start the conversation.

I read every message myself and respond within two working days.