Key Medium transforms your website into a unique experience that spotlights your brand and drives interest, action, and advocacy.
Your website is a declaration of who you are, what you believe, and what you have to offer. This fact is our guiding principle.
From discovery to development and design to digital strategy, we understand that your website is more than just business, it’s personal. That’s why here at Key Medium, we’re proud to offer top-notch website development and design services that are uniquely tailored to meet the needs of your organization.
We know you’re one-of-a-kind, so our creative process is built around getting to know you. So let’s get started.
Our Creative Process and Approach
Here’s what to expect when you partner with us. We solve problems through design thinking, lean, and agile methodlogy–and give website creation a personal touch by:
1. Getting to know you.
Our discovery process is designed to help us understand the needs of your organization, the problems you’re seeking to solve, and the special characteristics of your company that will serve as the building blocks of your brand and set you apart from the rest.
2. Pinpointing your goals.
Your organization is unlike any other, and your goals will be, too. Through a series of meetings, we’ll work with you one-on-one to create a series of goals you’re looking to reach with your new website. Your goals will be our focus in every step of our creative process.
3. Bringing your vision to life.
All of the great insights you provide to us in our initial meetings give us the ability to take a goal-based approach to the structure, functionality, and look and feel of your website. We’ll build your website with the latest features available to serve your business needs.
4. Staying in touch.
Communication is key to a successful partnership no matter what the project. We’ll provide updates throughout the design and development process and welcome your feedback at any time. If you have an idea you’d love us to implement, you can let us know, no matter where we are during your website’s creation.
5. Setting you up for success.
We want you to to make the most out of your new website. Once it’s complete, we’ll walk you through it, page by page. By fully understanding its features and functionality, your website can serve as a central hub for all of your engagement, conversion, and retention initiatives.
Our Core Team
Ali
Chief Experience Officer & Lead Developer
Ali has been building dazzling websites and creating amazing online experiences for more than a decade. His mastery of the latest innovations in web development results in world-class website experiences set apart by show-stopping style and seamless functionality. A Google Mobile Sites and Google Analytics qualified individual and award-winning web development guru, Ali lends his talents to build and bolster digital experiences for a wide array of clients like J&J, DonorPerfect, NJ Department of Agriculture, and more.
Both a proud sponsor and contributor to the open-source framework Materialize CSS, Ali is extremely active in the development community and in the community through Coding For Causes. As an internet entrepreneur, Ali’s experiences building, selling, and acquiring online businesses and websites provided him with the unique opportunity of working with top web developers and designers. He leveraged these relationships to create an online niche community of nearly 40,000 users, featuring hundreds of graphic design contests from around the world, during his teenage years.
After single-handedly building an online video platform in 2005, Ali pioneered the use of video by successfully encouraging thousands of user-generated video uploads that garnered millions of views. His pre-YouTube video platform has resulted in viral videos some still enjoy today.
Ali’s passion for technology and innovation fuels his work as founder of award-winning Philadelphia-based digital agency Key Medium, which has won over fifty awards in international creative competitions in many categories like: Environmental Awareness, User Experience, Mobile Information Experience, and more. Some Key Medium clients include The Public Interest Law Center, The University of Pittsburgh, Bicycle Coaltion of Greater Philadelphia, and previously–Johnson & Johnson’s Open&Out Ally, a global network and employee resource group of LGBTQ+ allies.
Elaine
Senior Creative Copywriter
Elaine is a professional editor at a not-for-profit educational institution’s learning and innovation division and holds a Master’s degree in English Literature. She is also a former marketing agency content writer where she wrote articles for disparate clients using SEO best practice.
She is a dual British and American citizen (with a generic American accent) and has a love of people, travel, reading, writing, food, ballet, theatre, and cultures. She enjoyed her childhood in the north of England, near the rolling green Pennines; for her later years, she relocated to sunny palm-tree-laden Florida then moved to the deep-South Bible belt of Georgia where she spent most of her formative years with a stint in her late 20s in Bavaria in Germany and then back to the US and England.
Elaine brings new ideas and compelling, sales-enabling creative content development to the Key Medium team through her diverse background and expertise in working with several B2B marketing agencies, six higher education institutions, as well as the Department of Defense as an educational aid on several projects.
Erkan
Digital Art Director & Senior Visual Designer
From Fortune 500 companies and household brands to buzzy startups and small business, Erkan has been delivering creative design to organizations of all kinds for over a decade. His expertise in conceptual branding, print design, digital layouts, and packaging design provides his clients with a memorable look and feel that reflects who their customers are and who they aspire to be.
Erkan’s clients include Destination Maternity, Cigna, Boscov’s Optical, Hudson’s Bay Optical, Saks Fifth Avenue Optical Boutique, Army and Air Force Exchange Optical Center, Airgas, Northstar New Jersey Lottery, Bosha Design+Communications, Johnson & Johnson’s Gateway to a Healthy Community Initiative, Princeton Partners Strategic Branding Agency, AARP, Haddon House Foods, Blanco America, Alhambra Guitars (Hoshino USA), and more recently- Destination Maternity.
Erkan’s passion for design fuels his work as Senior Creative Consultant for the award-winning, Philadelphia-based digital agency Key Medium. He supports mentoring and gives guidance to creative design and development ranging from high-fidelity prototypes to strategic branding- such as the brand he designed for the Public Interest Law Center for Grounded in Philly to support the Garden Justice Legal Intitiative.
Layla
Chief Happiness Officer
Our founder Ali’s pride and joy, Layla is Key Medium’s sassy yet loveable mascot. A 24/7 lapdog with a love of city strolls, Layla brings laughs, cuddles, fur, and fun to our workspace.
Coding For Causes
Our Commitment to Social Good
At Key Medium, giving back is in our company’s DNA. We dedicate a portion of our time and resources to create websites for awesome causes. We’re currently offering the following opportunities:
2023 Key Medium Grant for Nonprofit Organizations
Join Us
We’re always looking to add talent to our team of experts.
We are currently hiring a Digital Project and Account Coordinator and will post a UX design internship shortly for the Summer of 2023. Interested? Explore available career openings in social impact, UX design, research, web development, and project management.
Key Medium Partners
From a Fortune 500 creative consultant to cutting edge open-source technology, our partners, sponsorship recipients, and free online resources give us the unique opportunity to collaborate, inspire, and expand with fellow technology experts working toward the next big thing.
