Websites that look great and get found.

I'm Julie, a designer, builder and search strategist. I design logos and build sites, then make sure Google and AI answers can find them.

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Selected work

Three projects, three different problems.

Each one needed design and search to work together. Scroll to walk through them.

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Hi Familia

An editorial, image-led redesign for a family-owned luxury architecture and design firm in Beverly Hills.

RedesignUXSite analysis
  • Home page built around full-bleed architectural photography
  • Projects gallery and project detail templates
  • Gateway and landing page mockups
Hi Familia home page
Hi Familia projects page
Hi Familia project details page
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Coach America

One landing page system, ten cities. Charter bus searches are local, so the template had to scale without ten copies of the same page.

Local SEOTemplate designCopywriting
  • Technical audit: indexation, sitemap, redirect chains, a 404 on the quote page
  • Keyword gap vs. a national competitor; top cities ranked by search volume
  • Copy decks and mockups for Atlanta through Seattle
Atlanta
Chicago
Las Vegas
Seattle
+ 6 more
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Photomatica

A new brand system, site redesign and search plan for a vintage photo booth company with a museum of its own.

BrandRedesignSEO
  • Brand guide and three rounds of identity design
  • Technical SEO, analytics and metadata audit with a full site tree
  • A second audit for the Photobooth Museum site
Brand and logo design

Marks that work small, in one color, on a jersey.

Sports clubs, school programs and anniversaries. Every one started as a sketch and ended as a vector file the client could use anywhere.

Dublin Bolts 2019 crestDublin Bolts · crest
Roseville Premier Storm wordmarkRoseville Premier Storm
Sails, High Potential programSails · High Potential
Girls Bolts wordmarkGirls Bolts
High Potential 50th logo variationsHigh Potential 50th
Finance Rangers
Girls Bolts
Sails
Dublin Bolts
Roseville Premier Storm
Featured identity

High Potential, 50 years

Four directions for a 50th anniversary mark, from a cap on the existing "hp" to an isometric monogram and a campus silhouette. The chosen mark ships in one-color, three-quarter-color and sticker versions.

Palette #684099 · #22144F · #97D0E1  |  Typeface: Gilland Regular

High Potential 50th brand board: four logo options, palette and typeface
One-color, three-quarter-color and sticker versions
Illustration

Vector work, for clients and for fun

Eagle over the Golden Gate Bridge, inspire trust
Inspire trust
Low-poly boxer portrait
Low-poly portrait
Mid-century Eichler house
Eichler
Portrait with mountains
Avatar
Walk with Bug
Walk with Bug
Portland, heart
Portland

A beautiful site nobody finds is a brochure in a drawer. I plan for search from the first wireframe, so you never have to choose between design and discoverability.

Services

How I can help

01

Design and build

Brand-aware sites, from first mockup to launch. Discovery, wireframes, design, build and hand-off.

SquarespaceFigmaIllustrator
02

SEO

Technical audits, keyword and content strategy, and local landing page systems that earn traffic.

Technical auditKeyword gapLocal SEO
03

AEO

Making your brand show up, accurately, in AI answers like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

VisibilityCitationsContent fixes
04

Brand and logo design

Logos, color systems and the one-color, sticker and jersey versions that make them usable in the real world.

LogoPaletteIllustration
DiscoverGoals, audience and what the data says today.
Audit or designA technical health check, or wireframes and mockups.
Build and recommendPages, copy and a prioritized task list.
LaunchQA, analytics, Search Console and hand-off.
Julie (Schwartz) Aburquez
San Francisco Bay Area
About

Hi, I'm Julie.

I'm a designer, builder and search strategist in the San Francisco Bay Area. By day I lead organic and agentic search at Autodesk, where I've spent more than 12 years making one of the largest sites on the web easier to find. Freelance is where I get to do the whole thing: the logo, the site, and the search strategy that makes it work.

My wife and our two-year-old, Kaia, are my life and my reason why. When I'm not with them, I'm usually mid-DIY project at the house, reimagining a room, or with the people I love.

How I work: collaboratively. My job is to bring your vision to life and make sure you love the result. You'll see every step along the way, and nothing ships until it feels like you.

Let's talk.

Tell me a little about your site and what you're hoping to change. I reply within two business days.

jules.aburquez@gmail.com →