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Get ready for the European Accessibility Act (EAA)In today’s digital age where our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the importance of digital accessibility has never been clearer. Web accessibility is crucial for ensuring …
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Ergi sharing the Process of Open Source DesigningRight before the end of 2023, I spoke with our Visual Design Lead Ergi. Anything from unforgettable logos, to compelling visual storytelling to creating a unique visual identity, you can be sure it …
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Bridgebeam - ongoing design support for any budgetOver our years immersed in the open source community, we’ve forged invaluable relationships. This spans both commercial and non-profit open source projects. Many of these collaborations entailed …
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Introducing the Briar Android Illustration SystemUra has been working with Briar since 2018, namely on various UX features such as adding contacts remotely, SD card message sync, image attachments, mailbox features and more. As we have worked on …
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HTTPS Everywhere RedesignHTTPS Everywhere is a free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, and Firefox for Android, which is developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and the …
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Introducing LogobridgeAt Ura we have been constantly working with open source projects to get their branding up to speed. While we love working on fully fledged visual identities for projects, we are aware that some …
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Underexposed 2019During early January (7-11) Elio and Anxhelo from our team participated as mentors in the Underexposed event organized by Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. Underexposed Collective is a loosely-knit …
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SecureDrop Style GuideOur next project, in the series of funding from OpenTechFund, is SecureDrop. SecureDrop is an open source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept …
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I2P Style Guide and Usability StudyBack when Ura was founded in 2016 we only had a small landing page and a Patreon to help fund the time we help Open Source projects. It was very little but the thought that people would support us …
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Open Source Design Summit 2018During the first weekend of November we had the pleasure to facilitate the annual Open Source Design Summit in the city we are based in, Tirana. Open Source Design (short OSD) is a community of …
3 min read /
LibreOffice Conference 2018As part of dedicating our efforts to improve local grassroot initatives, we were delighted to be curating the visual identity of the LibreOffice Conference (short LibOCon). The conference is organized …
4 min read /
Thunderbird Style Guide and Usability StudySince early on, we had a special connection with Thunderbird. While many users moved to web-based mail clients, we always preferred using a single mail client to manage our mail and calendar. In fact, …
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Style Guides go Beyond AestheticsOftentimes we witness the results of elitist practices upon users, usually worded in the form of the acronym RTFM or “Read The Freaking Manual”. User manuals have their place, but up to …
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Reproducible Builds Style GuideEarlier this year, we announced our involvement with Open Tech Fund’s Usability Lab, providing Usability and Design Services to Internet Freedom projects. If you missed the news, head over to …
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Ura is now part of Open Tech Fund’s Usability LabStarting now, Ura will be providing Usability and Design Services to Internet Freedom projects as part of Open Tech Fund’s Usability Lab. The Usability Lab aims to increase user safety and promote …
2 min read /
Inkscape Workshop in TiranaQuite some time has passed since we first got in touch with the Open Source Design community. While being an utopian idea in the beginning, it has become clear to us that bringing Open Source values …
3 min read /
Ura at FOSDEM 2018During last weekend the Ura team traveled to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM. We had the chance to be present at one of the largest conferences in Europe (and probably the largest Free Software/ …
2 min read /
Hosting the first Open Source Design Workshop in TiranaWhen we started our Patreon campaign we had a simple vision: to use the financial resources of our supporters to provide better design to free open source and open web initiatives that we think are …
5 min read /
Get ready for the European Accessibility Act (EAA)In today’s digital age where our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the importance of digital accessibility has never been clearer. Web accessibility is crucial for ensuring …
10 min read /
Ergi sharing the Process of Open Source DesigningRight before the end of 2023, I spoke with our Visual Design Lead Ergi. Anything from unforgettable logos, to compelling visual storytelling to creating a unique visual identity, you can be sure it …
2 min read /
Bridgebeam - ongoing design support for any budgetOver our years immersed in the open source community, we’ve forged invaluable relationships. This spans both commercial and non-profit open source projects. Many of these collaborations entailed …
3 min read /
Introducing the Briar Android Illustration SystemUra has been working with Briar since 2018, namely on various UX features such as adding contacts remotely, SD card message sync, image attachments, mailbox features and more. As we have worked on …
3 min read /
HTTPS Everywhere RedesignHTTPS Everywhere is a free and open-source browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, and Firefox for Android, which is developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and the …
2 min read /
Introducing LogobridgeAt Ura we have been constantly working with open source projects to get their branding up to speed. While we love working on fully fledged visual identities for projects, we are aware that some …
4 min read /
Underexposed 2019During early January (7-11) Elio and Anxhelo from our team participated as mentors in the Underexposed event organized by Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. Underexposed Collective is a loosely-knit …
2 min read /
SecureDrop Style GuideOur next project, in the series of funding from OpenTechFund, is SecureDrop. SecureDrop is an open source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept …
3 min read /
I2P Style Guide and Usability StudyBack when Ura was founded in 2016 we only had a small landing page and a Patreon to help fund the time we help Open Source projects. It was very little but the thought that people would support us …
4 min read /
Open Source Design Summit 2018During the first weekend of November we had the pleasure to facilitate the annual Open Source Design Summit in the city we are based in, Tirana. Open Source Design (short OSD) is a community of …
3 min read /
LibreOffice Conference 2018As part of dedicating our efforts to improve local grassroot initatives, we were delighted to be curating the visual identity of the LibreOffice Conference (short LibOCon). The conference is organized …
4 min read /
Thunderbird Style Guide and Usability StudySince early on, we had a special connection with Thunderbird. While many users moved to web-based mail clients, we always preferred using a single mail client to manage our mail and calendar. In fact, …
4 min read /
Style Guides go Beyond AestheticsOftentimes we witness the results of elitist practices upon users, usually worded in the form of the acronym RTFM or “Read The Freaking Manual”. User manuals have their place, but up to …
2 min read /
Reproducible Builds Style GuideEarlier this year, we announced our involvement with Open Tech Fund’s Usability Lab, providing Usability and Design Services to Internet Freedom projects. If you missed the news, head over to …
3 min read /
Ura is now part of Open Tech Fund’s Usability LabStarting now, Ura will be providing Usability and Design Services to Internet Freedom projects as part of Open Tech Fund’s Usability Lab. The Usability Lab aims to increase user safety and promote …
2 min read /
Inkscape Workshop in TiranaQuite some time has passed since we first got in touch with the Open Source Design community. While being an utopian idea in the beginning, it has become clear to us that bringing Open Source values …
3 min read /
Ura at FOSDEM 2018During last weekend the Ura team traveled to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM. We had the chance to be present at one of the largest conferences in Europe (and probably the largest Free Software/ …
2 min read /
Hosting the first Open Source Design Workshop in TiranaWhen we started our Patreon campaign we had a simple vision: to use the financial resources of our supporters to provide better design to free open source and open web initiatives that we think are …
Schedule a 30min chat with us to find out how we can help