Smack Happy Design

I love working with Nicole — she’s super quick, smart and has an intuitive design eye — which really saves time all around when you’re in crunch mode. She apparently doesn’t understand the term «flustered,» which means that our projects proceed in a calm, thoughtful manner. Highly recommended!

I had a few tweaks for my website, and I asked Nicole at Smack Happy for help. Not only did she take care of the changes quickly and efficiently, but she also noticed a few other small usability issues along the way and handled them as well.
One of the things that’s frustrated me working with other developers is that they don’t really understand the intention of the changes. As a result, they execute on the exact letter of the request, but in a way that doesn’t fit with the rest of the site, or that breaks some other functionality. Nicole is different. She understands your overall goal, almost without even having to spell it out, and then makes sure everything works in a way that’s ideal for your site visitors.
I’d highly recommend Smack Happy to anyone.

I’d call Nicole a rock star, but she has the patience of saints and I’m not sure those two really go together. But if they do, Nicole’s got it all!!! She helped us with a very long, very tedious, very in-​depth project. She was patient, task oriented, and negotiable with us for every step of the way. We’re incredibly happy with our final website and totally recommend Nicole’s abilities to anyone that asks. And sometimes to people that don’t ask! But I digress.
Hire her.

Nicole, the founder of Smack Happy Design simply put in one word is brilliant! She is so knowledgeable about her work and her ability to understand my needs even though I am not the best at communicating and explaining the issues is great! I had some problems with my website and didn’t know what to do and it was urgent. I contacted Nicole and she was able to resolve the problem (s) within the next day. Her cost was reasonable and the service was impeccable. I also trust Nicole with my business needs, I trust her work, her values and her credibility in this industry. I believe websites and all the content in the back-​end is so personal that its not something I want to expose to just anyone — especially with a business like mine which is mostly confidential. Thanks Nicole for your passion and your dedication to your clients! I feel taken care of.

Nicole was an easy person with whom to work. As a non-​technical person, she guided me through each step of the process and in the end, I had a website that I’m able to manage fairly easily. When I do run into issues, she’s quick on responding and correcting the problem for me.

I met Nicole a few years ago and randomly learned she had helped friends with their business websites. Her talent for website design was immediately evident. Shortly thereafter we launched a working relationship and recreating my business website. What a brilliant decision!
Nicole provides a great framework and is wonderful in setting client expectations for the entire process. My website wasn’t the easiest to tackle. Not only did it require a custom design, it also required the incorporation of a secondary website search engine. It was complex project and set up! Nicole made it all feel simple. She has great ideas, is a quick thinker, artistic and programmer all in one! Nicole is a gem! My site not only works correctly it also looks fantastic.
Working with Nicole is easy, amazing and an absolute pleasure. I can’t recommend her highly enough!

I was referred from a friend and we are over joyed we found Nicole.
My uncle is a retired high profile politician and business man here in the valley and can be a bit difficult to work with due to his schedule.
She handle him like a champ and got the project completed in no time!
Would recommend her in a minute (and will do so now on FB) if you are looking to build a site or improve it.
Thanks Nicole
— OGH

We’ve been working with Smack Happy for several months now and are very pleased. The work is on time and very well done. Thanks Nicole!

I’ve worked with Nicole on and off for about 3 years now. She’s done a lot of website and general design for us, both when I worked at a startup and more recently at a large company. She’s a great designer who works closely with you to get the requirements right. She completes the designs on time and is always willing to make changes to get it perfect. I love working with Nicole and will continue to give her projects in the future as they come up. She’s just fantastic. Thank you, Nicole!

Nicole has been a great partner to have over the past 5 years. She goes above and beyond whatever is asked and doesn’t overcharge. If she doesn’t posses the skill we need then she can recommend a qualified individual who does at a reasonable price.

THANK YOU!
I came to Nicole with hacking issues. I kept getting google emailing me saying that it appeared that my sight had been hacked and that it would not be found in searches until the problem had been fixed. I tried to resolve the issue with my very limited tech know-​how… FAIL! So I went on google and youtube to try to get some how-​to video help to do it myself… FAIL! Then I spoke with Nicole, desperately wanting my site back to normal, and she fixed the issue in a day or two! HEAVEN SENT! Also, my website already built, by me, had some issues when i was editing the content. All of the new content would default to the standard style default color and size instead of the personalized colors and font styles I preferred. Nicole wrote some code on the back end of my site to set the defaults to that I wanted and I haven’t had an issue with it sense. I DID however, have some confusion about changing some stuff myself and when I called Nicole, she walked me through the steps I needed to take, sent me screen shots of instructions and made sure I was able to do it on m own in the future. Plus I was confused on how and when to back up my site when I had to update my plug ins. Nicole again took over and now takes care of all that for me.
She really is great at what she does. She’s super helpful in teaching someone how to do stuff on their own, she handles the stuff that I don’t want to deal with, and is great about getting things done in a speedy manner.
THANK YOU! (A million times over)

I’ve been working with Nicole for over 2 years and it has been nothing but wonderful. Starting from her thorough inquiry on your project, you know she wants to learn about your website’s needs and wants. Not only she is a talented designer, she also has in depth knowledge in building a good website. Nicole is always happy to share her thoughts and it has been a pleasure working with her.
In addition to her excellent website building skills, she is also a great graphic designer. She designed a beautiful infographic logos for my website, and mailing postcards as marketing collateral.
All’n all, she is
— pleasant to work with
— patient
— detail oriented
— organized
— communicative
— meet deadline
— helpful
I highly recommend Nicole for anyone’s website/​graphic needs.

I’ve worked with Nicole and Smack Happy Design for several years now and couldn’t recommend her work strongly enough. She is that incredibly rare combo of a pleasure to work with AND delivers incredibly high quality work.
Even in the face of a colleague of mine who seemed like he would never be satisfied and asked for about a bajillion revisions on a piece of work I thought was already top notch, Nicole soared. She happily made each and every one, never showing even a touch of frustration, and did indeed finally satisfy someone for whom I thought might not be capable of satisfaction.
Another thing I love about her is that I’ve brought her a project that repeats over the years and she somehow manages to come up with new and interesting art that keeps it fresh each year. I love that her artist brain won’t let her just copy and paste!
Run, don’t walk, to hire Smack Happy Design.

Nicole is an absolute pleasure to work with. She created a beautiful and functional website for our department which received lots of praise from our clients. She even designed a logo for us and remained patient after we asked her to provide countless rounds of revisions. In the end, we ended up with a unique, eye-​catching logo thanks to Nicole!
I highly recommend Nicole and Smack Happy Design and l look forward to working with her on future projects.

Nicole was a pleasure to work with as she designed our social networking website. She took the time to fully understand our idea and perfectly made it a reality. Also, she gave multiple preliminary designs and allowed us to pick what buttons, backgrounds, etc. that we liked best.
She is always quick to respond to our requests and is super flexible about changing things.
She is also extremely diligent and hits every deadline, which can often be a problem when hiring web designers.
I highly recommend using her; you won’t be disappointed.

We have worked with Nicole and Smack Happy Design for over a year now, and are very happy with her results. She is very responsive, very professional, and works hard to get us exactly what we need.
I highly recommend SmackHappy for all of your web design needs.

I’ve been working with Nicole for over two years now and she is a top notch designer. She’s a reliable person who works fast and loves what she’s doing, which shows in her work.
Nicole is great at translating the customer’s needs into a final product. If you need any design or web work done I would highly recommend contacting Nicole!

Nicole is a great designer, is super responsive and very professional. I’ve worked with her on logos, web sites and other collateral — both for my own projects as well as for several «shared» clients together now and I and they are exceedingly happy with her work, her value and her creative insights.
I highly recommend Nicole and SmackHappy — She gets it done!

Where do I even start! Nicole has been an angel sent down from heaven! I opened my own business three years ago and I had a hire someone to set up a website for me. Over a month later, the guy had my business name and my name on a website and that was it. I was so upset and didn’t know where to start to make my own website. And that’s when I found Nicole. She took over, asked me a few questions about my business and color scheme and within a few days she had 3 or 4 samples for me to pick out of. And if I could. I would of picked them all! They were all so pretty. I constantly still get told that my website is nice.
On top of great product. Nicole is also very patient. I’m not the most computer savvy 27 year old in the Bay Area. I’ve had to ask her questions about my website and she’s been very helpful on making it easy for me to understand and for me to sign into my website and keep updating information.
Nicole, thank you soo much for making my website beautiful!!!

Smack Happy is a joy to work with. The only designer I know who I can completely trust to: understand what I’m going for, make great initial mocks, work with my feedback and then actually build in my code base! I enjoy simply giving my input, reviewing mocks and then seeing the results live on the web days later.
Nicole is easy to work with and is adept at many different design styles. She turns my ideas and guidance into a usable, coherent product design.
I recommend her highly and look forward to working with her again on future projects.