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Founder & Principal Designer Golden Launch Creative

Kia Dyson

From fashion to photography to web design— I build digital experiences for mission-driven brands doing work that matters.

I didn't start here.

Many years ago, I was a fashion photographer. My work was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Lowe Art Museum. Featured in The New York Times and Washington Post. I understood composition. Light. How to make people feel something through an image. But I realized: the most powerful images aren't just observed.

They're experienced…

A woman with an afro hairstyle, wearing a bright orange strapless top, dark green high-waisted pants, and slides, standing on a basketball with one foot, on an outdoor court with a chain-link fence in the background.
Museum exhibitions.
Press features. 
Visual storytelling.
A group of people in white uniforms, some wearing hats, gathered outside a gated area with ornate gates and a large building in the background.
Two women in fashionable outfits sitting in a cozy, cluttered kitchen with wooden cabinets, spices, and kitchen appliances on shelves and counters.
A woman wearing a beret, a dark long-sleeve top, patterned leggings, and lace-up boots poses with one hand on her leg and the other crossing her body in a studio setting with a plain background.

That's what led me to web design.

Golden Launch Creative exists because too many mission-driven brands have websites that don't match the importance of their work. Nonprofits changing lives stuck with DIY templates. Creative businesses doing incredible work with sites that don't convert. Founders with vision but no digital presence that reflects it. I fix that. I build strategic, conversion-focused websites for people doing meaningful work.

Not just pretty sites.

Sites that work.

design work has been featured in
Black background with white text that says 'Site of Sites' in the center.
Logo with the text 'CFDA Impact' in white on a black background.
Text reading 'creatively. CULTURED' on a black background
Black background with white text that reads 'ilovecreatives'.
Black background with the text 'MaxiBestOf' in bold white font centered.

My background in photography taught me something most web designers miss— Every visual choice carries meaning. A color. A typeface. The way information flows. It's not decoration. It's communication. That's what I bring to every project— A photographer's eye combined with a strategist's mind.

Beautiful and functional. Compelling and converting.

Speaking

The Website Designer Summit

March 5, 2026
"The brand designers forget to build... their own"

Squarespace CircleDay

September 2024
"Incorporating Identity into Web Design"

Watch here
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Available Topics

Building websites that convert (not just look pretty)

UX strategy for mission-driven organizations

From photographer to web designer: What the transition taught me

Wanna Chat?

For speaking inquiries: hello@goldenlaunchcreative.com

Let's work together

Golden Launch Creative partners with mission-driven brands ready to invest in strategic web design.