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A service-first website redesign for the team that designs, builds and installs school space
Imaginate Your Space (IYS) is a design-build team based in Worcester, Massachusetts. For over 30 years they have turned plain school cafeterias, entrances and gyms into spaces built around each school's mascot, colours and story. That's more than 1,000 schools across 32+ states.
We took their website from a static, catalogue-style site to one with real wow factor. We rebuilt it in HubSpot as an interactive experience, with a scroll-driven 3D tour of real installed rooms, featured projects that play their own before-and-after on hover, and a live product builder. All of it stays simple enough for a busy food service director to use without a second thought.
IYS had built a strong reputation for school spaces that last, but their website still sold them like a product shop. Visitors landed on a catalogue and rarely ordered online. The district leaders and principals who actually sign off on a transformation had no clear path to the service or proof of past work. With the logo and core colours locked, the site needed a new story without a new identity.
Before the redesign
We started with IYS's sales process, not the old sitemap. Every decision after that came back to one question: what does the person who approves a school project need to see, and what should they do next? The IYS team reviewed live prototypes with us twice a week, so the site took shape in the open, the way IYS designs with schools.
Services explain IYS's role, spaces indicate location, products are add-ons, and budget tiers show size. This clarity led to a concise main nav: Our Work, Products, Services, Process, Resources, and Book a Meeting.
Four ways in, kept apart
IYS now sells as a service-first partner. A clear structure leads school leaders to Book a Meeting, HubSpot modules let the IYS team update the site and track enquiries, and the SEO groundwork keeps the search value of the old pages.
Four screens that carry the IYS story, from the first impression to the work and the products.
Home hero
· Desktop
About hero
· Laptop
Featured Works
· Tab
Products
· Mobile
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The old homepage led with products. The new one leads with IYS's own work and a clear path to Book a Meeting. Drag the slider to compare the same hero, before and after.
We paired a clean sans with italic and script accents, so pages read easily while key words still feel personal. The teal palette, from deep to soft tones with neutral greys, stays consistent throughout the site and gives IYS a calm, recognisable look.
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Project timeline
A school space is hard to picture from a photo, so we made the site something visitors can explore, not just scroll past. Every interaction is there to help school leaders see what IYS can do for their own building, and each one stays simple enough to use the first time.
One team handled strategy, design and development, from the first sales call to launch day. Every deliverable came from what we learned about how IYS sells, and each one was shaped by IYS on the live reviews.
Every page, product and form on the old site reviewed, with what to keep, merge or cut.
A sitemap built around services and the portfolio, with copy written for each named buyer.
Page-by-page UX specs, plus a design system around the locked logo and colours.
Designs for every template, from homepage to project detail, product and blog.
A HubSpot CMS build with editable modules, so the IYS team updates the site without us.
Forms and meeting booking routed into the CRM, SEO carried over, and a clean launch.
The 3D scenes, scroll motion and smooth scrolling all run inside HubSpot CMS, and every section is still an editable module.
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“Before HubSpot, we were living kind of in chaos with Post-it notes. Every lead, every patient type, and every renewal had to be tracked manually, and our front desk was spending more time managing spreadsheets than focusing on patients.”
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Results
Meetings booked each month more than doubled in the four months after launch, as more school leaders found their way to Book a Meeting.
| Metric |
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|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse scores out of 100 | ||
| Performance How fast pages load |
94
|
42 |
| Accessibility Usable for every visitor |
98
|
80 |
| Best Practices Clean, secure code |
100
|
54 |
| SEO Ready for search engines |
100
|
92 |
| Site audit | ||
| Site Health Overall technical health |
94%
|
70% |
| AI Search Health Ready for AI search results |
88%
|
65% |
| Errors Critical issues found |
4
|
151 |
| Warnings Smaller issues found |
212
|
2,559 |
Source: Google PageSpeed Insights (old site, Oct 2026) and Semrush Site Audit. After values pending.
After = sample data
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