
Hummingbird Design
Tiny websites, big dreams.
The name Hummingbird Design was inspired by a fable of
mixed origins* about a tiny bird with a very big heart.
As the story goes, a massive fire breaks out in the forest. All the
animals run to safety—watching helplessly as the flames spread.
All except the little hummingbird.
She darts back and forth between a stream and the fire, carrying a single drop of water in her beak each time. Over and over again, she drops her tiny bit of water onto the blaze.
The other animals call out, “What are you doing? That’s not enough. You can’t possibly make a difference!”
The hummingbird simply replies: “I’m doing what I can.”
That message lies at the heart of everything we do at Hummingbird Design.
In a world that often values scale, speed, and spectacle, we believe in the quiet power of small, intentional efforts. Whether it’s refreshing the content on a single web page or helping a meaningful message find its form, we approach each project with care, integrity, and purpose.
Because even when it feels like just a little—it still matters. The hummingbird reminds us that doing what you can, with what you have, is not only enough—it’s essential.
Why Hummingbirds?

*A contemporary parable by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a Haida artist-author from Canada’s Pacific Northwest, created Flight of the Hummingbird (2008), inspired by Quechua storytelling traditions and popularized by Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental activist, who told it frequently from the mid-2000s onward to illustrate the power of individual action.