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Open Source and Usability belong together

Ura is a design agency working on open source and privacy-preserving software. We've been supporting software projects since 2016 to be the best they can be. Our team is based in Tirana (Albania), Grenoble (France) and Berlin (Germany).

Our Expertise

Visual identity can often be an afterthought, especially in open source. We want to change this status quo and work with you to understand the character and story of your identity better. Our branding services range from logo design to layout design as well as print. No matter if you need a small refresh or a complete overhaul, we will work with you all the way to the finish line.

See our Branding Work

We consider accessibility a requirement and not a bonus. Getting a 100% rating on an automated accessibility checker is not enough. We provide manual and automated accessibility testing, including best practices in design and development to ensure that your project is compliant with ADA, Section 508 using WCAG 2.1 AA or higher.

See our Accessibility Work

From information architecture to usability testing, we provide the right tools and skills you need for a human-centered design approach. We apply our industry experience to your project using Nielsen Norman’s 10 user experience heuristics. We want to help you build the right thing from the start, instead of fixing things afterward. When it comes to user testing we do provide recruitment and testing services in-house, including user interviews and usability testing.


UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group

UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group
#1049847

See our UX Research Work

We design and build privacy-respecting user interfaces and design systems to bring your vision to life. From sketch to high-fidelity prototype, we cover the end-to-end design process of your website, web app, or mobile app including developer handoff, animations, and interactions.


UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group

UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group
#1049847

See our Interaction Design Work

Complex solutions require simple explanations. Allow us to help you with custom illustrations fitting your brand and storytelling. We stray away from stock images in order to craft visuals tailored for you, not for others. From concept to implementation our hand-drawn illustrations will breathe life into your app.

See our Illustrations Work

We are not your usual WordPress website developers. While working with dozens of open source communities we understood that no one wants to maintain a backend for a simple website. We specialize in static site generators such as Hugo or Jekyll to craft websites.

See our Web Development Work

Our Expertise

Branding

Visual identity can often be an afterthought, especially in open source. We want to change this status quo and work with you to understand the character and story of your identity better. Our branding services range from logo design to layout design as well as print. No matter if you need a small refresh or a complete overhaul, we will work with you all the way to the finish line.

See our Branding Work

Accessibility

We consider accessibility a requirement and not a bonus. Getting a 100% rating on an automated accessibility checker is not enough. We provide manual and automated accessibility testing, including best practices in design and development to ensure that your project is compliant with ADA, Section 508 using WCAG 2.1 AA or higher.

See our Accessibility Work

UX Research

From information architecture to usability testing, we provide the right tools and skills you need for a human-centered design approach. We apply our industry experience to your project using Nielsen Norman’s 10 user experience heuristics. We want to help you build the right thing from the start, instead of fixing things afterward. When it comes to user testing we do provide recruitment and testing services in-house, including user interviews and usability testing.


UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group

UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group
#1049847

See our UX Research Work

Interaction Design

We design and build privacy-respecting user interfaces and design systems to bring your vision to life. From sketch to high-fidelity prototype, we cover the end-to-end design process of your website, web app, or mobile app including developer handoff, animations, and interactions.


UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group

UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group
#1049847

See our Interaction Design Work

Illustrations

Complex solutions require simple explanations. Allow us to help you with custom illustrations fitting your brand and storytelling. We stray away from stock images in order to craft visuals tailored for you, not for others. From concept to implementation our hand-drawn illustrations will breathe life into your app.

See our Illustrations Work

Web Development

We are not your usual WordPress website developers. While working with dozens of open source communities we understood that no one wants to maintain a backend for a simple website. We specialize in static site generators such as Hugo or Jekyll to craft websites.

See our Web Development Work

Pro Bono Design Support

We are supporting internet freedom and digital security tools with in-kind design support.
Find out how we can help you with your project; free of charge.

Who are we?

Elio Qoshi

Founder

Anxhelo Lushka

Lead Frontend Developer

Ergi Shkëlzeni

Lead Visual Designer

Anja Xhakani

Associate UX Researcher

Breror Rexha

Frontend Developer

Christopher Hunter

UX Designer

Marit Brademann

UX Lead

Klesta Xhaferri

DevOps Engineer

Alumni

Renata Gegaj

UX Research Lead

Rudolf Burgaj

Visual Designer

“Ura understood the needs of the open-source community when we worked on a styleguide for the Tor Project, delivering a polished result.”

Sara Sinclair Brody

Design Director

“The folks at Ura were very professional in learning our expectations, planning the project, and being flexible as things changed.”

Jeff Beatty

Mozilla / Firefox Localization

“We loved working with Ura for Oxidize. From research over design to implementation, everything worked great.”

Florian Gilcher

Ferrous Systems / Rust-Lang

“From conception to execution, Ura was highly effective to gather requirements and deliver upon them without surprises.”

Mira Mezini

TU Darmstadt

Can we help on your project?

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