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 leading in the development of the first web design curriculum for Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
Invited by NY Parsons School of Design, teaching brought Eliza to the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2002, where she taught two classes, web design and interface design, at Parson’s sister school Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic. The response was so positive to the classes, which consisted of professionals as well as students, that she decided to relocate her business. 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 re-branded 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 and has contact centers in both Santo Domingo and Florida.