RUSH Permit Services Website design, not yet launched
When the work is paperwork,the process is the proof.When the workis paperwork,the processis the proof.
Collins Creative designed and built a website for RUSH Permit Services, a permit expediting firm in Central California. With no finished buildings to show, the site explains the service through its process: four jobs, six steps, and a consultation request that starts with where the permit is stuck.
The website, interactive
Scroll the page.
Open the questions.
Scroll the homepage, open the menu and the common questions, and look through the consultation request on desktop or on a phone.
The form is switched off in this preview. It was never connected to a sending service, and nothing typed into it leaves the page.
The challenge
Selling a service nobody can photograph.
A permit expediter has no fleet, no finished rooms, and no before-and-after. What a contractor or developer is buying is confidence that the application goes in right and the permit gets closed.
So we named the four jobs RUSH takes on, in the order a permit moves, and gave each one its own next step instead of one generic contact button.
The process as proof
Application to closeout,
in six steps.
The process section does the job a project gallery does for a builder. Six numbered steps, from the first project review to final signatures, show what RUSH handles and in what order, with a one-line explanation under each.
Six steps, one screen.
A list, then the menu.
The consultation request
Start with where
the permit is stuck.
The request form asks the questions an expediter needs before a first call: the jurisdiction, the county, and the stage the permit is in, from pre-application to closeout. Phone and email sit beside it for anyone who would rather call.
About the form The form checks required fields in the browser but was never connected to a sending service. In the preview above it sends nothing, and its confirmation message says so.
What we made
One page,
start to closeout.
Homepage and message
A direct headline, a four-service row in the first screen, and Request a consultation and the phone number in the header.
Services and process
Four services with their own next step, and a six-step walkthrough from application to closeout.
Audience, area, and questions
Who RUSH works with, the counties it serves, and common questions, including a plain answer that RUSH cannot guarantee approval.
Consultation request
A form organized by jurisdiction, county, and permit stage. The page also states that RUSH is an independent agency, not a government office.
Show the steps.
Skip the promises.
Project lead
Brendan Collins
Brendan led the site structure, writing, UX/UI design, and front-end build for RUSH.
The judgment that mattered was voice: sound like someone who knows the permit counter, without promising approvals or timelines that only a building department controls.
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