L2D
Engagement over entertainment
L2D delivers the strategy, design and development behind complex web, physical, and XR interactive projects for clients on a global scale. We partner with agencies and brands alike to push the interactive envelope and engage participants over viewers. We are proudly located in the Gig City: Chattanooga, TN.
Core tenets of L2D
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To leave everything we encounter better than when we found it. We enrich individuals, enhance digital experiences, and revere the places we inhabit.
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To promote a culture that treats all colleagues, clients, and collaborators with equal dignity. We practice placing all contributors before ourselves.
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To cultivate a culture of personal and professional growth. We encourage innovation, sponsor collaborative effort, and recognize individual contributions.
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To embrace life with purpose. We pursue projects that promote active lifestyles, human-to-human connection, and mindfully engaging digital experiences.
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To listen with intent to understand. We respect that each client knows their needs and their customers better than any outside analyst.
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To treat each team member like family. We esteem our team by placing them and their needs over the relentless optimization of output.
Key Clients:
Blake Parsons
The Buntin Group
Our partnership with L2D has expanded our agency’s horizons in concept and execution of interactive projects.
Plus its a genuinely great group of people to work with, which makes creating cool stuff even cooler.
The L2D Crew
Tyler Johnson
Director of Development
Patrick Burton
3D Designer
C. Eliott Johnston
Director of Strategy & Research
Anne Plating
Project Manager
Matt Thomas
Web Developer
Nate Johnson
Art Director
Daniel De Guzman
Lead Developer
Mario Perez
Lead Front-End Developer
Emily Highsmith
Interactive Designer
Ron Ott
Creative Director
Dustin Smoote
Interactive Developer
The spirit of L2D is multitudinous. We are a community of renegades, we’re jovially critical, and dogged jesters. We’re experts in rabbit trails, 80s movies, and Georgia Avenue—just ask us about the alligators of Fireman’s Fountain. Anyway, we're pretty nice.
Your AWARDS...
Our Reward
L2D has won industry accolades in Awwwards, the FWAs, and CSS Design Awards among others. While it’s nice to receive recognition in our own industry, it’s just a byproduct of striving to make ripples in our clients’ industries.
Our work has earned Addy’s for an ad firm, multiple Diamond awards for credit unions, a mobile excellence award for an outdoor apparel company, and a NAED best-of-the-best website award in the electrical industry.
By our estimation, if we’re not winning awards for our clients, we’re not offering a valuable service. We measure our impact by what matters most to our clients, not design industry trends.
Super Secret Process
This is the part where we talk about how our discovery, our design exploration, and our UX strategy are insanely, mind-blowingly unique.
They're not.
What’s different is our team. We’re a bunch of talented individuals who are tenacious, passionate and real good at what we do. This is our super not-so-secret process.
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DIscover
We embark on an exhaustive discovery journey with the client to align project goals by seeking feedback at every level. Our findings then inform target demographics, key competitors, and a project roadmap.
02
Design
We analyze Discovery findings to craft a style that best suits the client’s stated goals. From there, we design a User Experience and User Interface for an optimal customer journey.
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Build
Development begins after we establish the UX and sitemap. We create gray box structures to secure all functionality before applying final design, interactions, and animations.
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deploy
After the prototyping phase, we connect the CMS to the website and initiate QA by testing in all browsers, analytics events, CRM connections and ADA compliance. Then, we launch.
Want to chat: 📫
New Business
Want to talk to someone about a project? We'd love to chat.
projects@l2d.co
423-602-9590
Careers
We're always looking for talented designers and developers. Drop a line.
jobs@l2d.co
423-509-6637
General Inquiries
Just want to talk about your favorite 80s movies? Party on, dudes.
hello@l2d.co
423-551 3499
