About 45th Parallel Design
Company History
We are a creative design and development shop established in 2011 by Nicole Aue and Megan Ferrell. Realizing our unique skill sets are many times more valuable in combination than alone, we teamed up to offer a diverse array of branding, design, web development, website maintenance, SEO, reporting, and marketing services to businesses and organizations.
What's Unique About Us?
We’re a Full-Service, One-Stop Shop for Your Design and Development Needs.
We’ve got a lot of tools in our toolkit: brand identity design including idea generation, logos, and style guides; information architecture design and wireframing; user interface design; website design and development; search engine optimization; website maintenance, backups, and security monitoring; website repair and troubleshooting; photography; e-learning design and development; copy editing; hosting plan recommendations and management; and more.
Our Designs Are Custom.
We design every project from scratch to ensure it is truly customized and branded. We listen to your specific needs and implement smart solutions to your project requirements.
We Have 15+ Years of Experience in the Private and Public Sectors.
With experience in both the public and private sectors, we’ve amassed an array of skills to manage and implement a wide variety of projects with aplomb, from billboard design to large custom websites.
Our Communication is Proactive.
With many years of project management experience, we know how to work with our clients to move projects forward.
We Offer Full-Service, Ongoing Website Maintenance.
Want to spend less time updating your website and more time doing what you do best? We can maintain every aspect of your website from text edits to design changes to running security updates and regular backups.
We Help You Make Informed Decisions.
Not sure how many pages your website should have or what content should go where? We can help with that. Not sure which platform to choose for your email marketing? We can help with that too. Not only can we make recommendations for improving your brand, your website, your online courses, etc. – we also implement those recommendations and stick around to maintain them.
We Do the Technical Stuff.
The websites we build are responsive to different screen sizes and are optimized for page load speed. We can make ADA-accessible websites according to WCAG standards, tie into APIs to pull data into your website, create searchable libraries, e-commerce, and more. Our websites also utilize clean code for easy perusal by search engines so your website will be recognized by Google and Bing.
Quality and Consistency Are Our Top Priorities.
We take care with the details, like ensuring consistency in alignment, fonts, colors, and repeated design elements. We can help you keep your content organized, logical, and clean.
Got a question? Schedule a conversation with us!
Meet the Owners
Nicole Aue: Designer
Nicole Aue is a professional designer with 15+ years of experience presenting audiences with effective visual cues, logical hierarchy, and inviting imagery to facilitate engagement with her clients’ intended message. Nicole is concerned with creating quality, standards-based products – both print and digital – focused on usability, content, and information. She is skilled in conceiving original brand identities with visual interest. Nicole frequently attends to the unglamorous but important behind-the-scenes details, such as proper organization, keyword optimization of web pages, and metadata optimization of documents for improved readability and accessibility for humans as well as better placement in search engine results. A native Portlander, Nicole is a Portland State University graduate.
Megan Ferrell: Developer
Megan Ferrell is a professional web developer and search engine optimization (SEO) consultant with 15+ years of experience working at Portland-area web hosting companies as well as 14 years as co-owner of 45th Parallel Design. Megan has worked on hundreds of websites over the course of her career. Her knowledge extends beyond custom coding and includes website security and experience with server administration. Megan has developed a reputation for tenacity and troubleshooting prowess among her clients as well as other developers and server administrators. She grew up in Southern California and is a University of California, San Diego graduate.