Design Intense Founder / Creative Director, Eliza Alys Young, has been designing websites since the birth of the web approximately 15 years ago. Professionally trained as a designer, she also studied computer programming and taught herself HTML when there were no classes to take, no templates to buy, or software such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage to help.
In addition to designing several hundred websites over the years, she has also taught web design, from basic to advanced, HTML to multimedia, on a university level, including developing the first web design curriculum for Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. In fact, it was teaching that brought her to the Dominican Republic in the first place. In the summer of 2002, she was invited by Parsons School of Design to teach two classes at their sister school Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic. She taught a class in web design and the other in interface design.
The response was so positive to the classes, which consisted of professionals as well as students, that she decided to investigate the possibility of relocating her business, because at that time, the web market had just dramatically bottomed out in the United States but it was burgeoning in the Latin American and Caribbean Markets.
In the States she owned and operated a web design firm called Wolf Imaging, based in Jacksonville, Florida which worked with a large team, on international projects of a wide scale, some projects totaling up to half a million dollars.
In the Dominican Republic she broadened the scope of her company to include traditional advertising/graphic design and rebranded the company as CreativEliza. Her clients included the financial enterprise Grupo BHD, several locations in Cap Cana, numerous resorts both in the Dominican Republic and beyond such as Sun Village, Reef Club Cozumel and much more.
In 2009. the company went through a final rebranding, changing the company name to Design Intense so there was less focus on Eliza’s name and more on the work itself.
Currently Design Intense works with a diverse, international client base.