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Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/authors/elio/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/authors/elio/ http://test.ura.design/clients/mozilla/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/mozilla/ Visual design and illustrations for contributors, UI and UX research and design for Thunderbird. http://test.ura.design/testimonials/sara/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/testimonials/sara/ “Ura understood the needs of the open-source community when we worked on a styleguide for the Tor Project, delivering a polished result.” http://test.ura.design/services/branding/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/authors/anxhelo/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/authors/anxhelo/ http://test.ura.design/clients/eclipse/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/eclipse/ Branding and web design for the AsciiDoc language and working group. http://test.ura.design/testimonials/jeff/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/testimonials/jeff/ “The folks at Ura were very professional in learning our expectations, planning the project, and being flexible as things changed.” http://test.ura.design/services/accessibility/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/authors/renata/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/authors/renata/ http://test.ura.design/clients/tor/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/tor/ Branding updates and UX design. http://test.ura.design/testimonials/florian/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/testimonials/florian/ “We loved working with Ura for Oxidize. From research over design to implementation, everything worked great.” http://test.ura.design/services/ux-research/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/authors/ergi/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/authors/ergi/ http://test.ura.design/clients/tud/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/tud/ Brand Identity, Print Design and Web Development for Hessian.AI and Queryella. http://test.ura.design/testimonials/mira/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/testimonials/mira/ “From conception to execution, Ura was highly effective to gather requirements and deliver upon them without surprises. Their open design process and their professionalism in all phases of the project is something our team always appreciated.” http://test.ura.design/services/interaction-design/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/authors/anja/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/authors/anja/ http://test.ura.design/clients/rust/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/rust/ Brand identity, web design and print for RustFest and other Rust projects. http://test.ura.design/services/illustrations/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/clients/otf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/otf/ Usability and design service provider for sponsored projects as part of SUA Lab and Learning Lab. http://test.ura.design/services/web-development/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/services/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. http://test.ura.design/work/censoredplanet/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/censoredplanet/ We helped Censored Planet establish their brand identity and provide insights on internet censorship in understandable ways. http://test.ura.design/work/stackspin/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/stackspin/ We helped Stackspin, previously known as OpenAppStack, build their new brand personality and visual identity conducting user experience research to provide relevant experience to their users. http://test.ura.design/work/calyxos/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/calyxos/ We provided a new visual style for CalyxOS, concretized into graphics to illustrate their main concepts and new wallpaper images for the Operating System. http://test.ura.design/work/adapt/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/adapt/ We designed the full visual identity for Internews’ ADAPT, creating a style to graphically represent ADAPT everywhere. http://test.ura.design/work/optima/ Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/optima/ We designed the brand and visual identity for OPTIMA, creating a visual language which emphasizes their motive, principles and style. http://test.ura.design/work/oxizide/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/oxizide/ We created the brand and visual identity for Oxidize, designing every digital and print asset for the conference and providing a long-term design solution. http://test.ura.design/blog/https-everywhere-redesign/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 19:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/https-everywhere-redesign/ HTTPS 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 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It automatically makes websites use a more secure HTTPS connection instead of HTTP if they support it. HTTPS Everywhere makes it possible to block and unblock all non-HTTPS browser connections with one click. In an effort to improve the user experience, we worked with the EFF team to reimagine HTTPS Everywhere. http://test.ura.design/blog/introducing-logobridge/ Tue, 07 May 2019 18:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/introducing-logobridge/ At 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 projects simply need a logo to get started and focus on the actual software features. This motivated us to build Logobridge, an open source collection of public domain logos anyone can use for their projects for free: https://logobridge. http://test.ura.design/blog/underexposed-2019/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/underexposed-2019/ During early January (7-11) Elio and Anxhelo from our team participated as mentors in the Underexposed event organized by Simply Secure in Berlin, Germany. Simply Secure Underexposed Collective is a loosely-knit group of designers, researchers, writers, advocates, and users who reject the current trajectory of mainstream technology development. They support people by providing funding, education, mentorship, design support, research, testing, and a community for collaboration. This was the first time Underexposed took place in the form of a residency. http://test.ura.design/work/thunderbird/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/thunderbird/ We created the new Thunderbird brand and helped the project with extensive usability research. http://test.ura.design/blog/securedrop-styleguide/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/securedrop-styleguide/ Our 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 documents from anonymous sources. During this process we were brought closer with the Project, getting to know the developers and designers behind it that help create a secure system for whistleblowers. The work we conducted with SecureDrop was part of the OTF Usability Lab, as have been previous ones before. http://test.ura.design/blog/i2p-usability-study-and-styleguide/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/i2p-usability-study-and-styleguide/ Back 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 kept us fueled. During that time we were also approached by I2P for helping them with updating their website and some branding. We resided to simplify the logo to something which would offer more flexibility and be already an improvement of the former logo. http://test.ura.design/blog/osd-summit-2018/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/osd-summit-2018/ During 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 designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software. The community writes articles, runs a job board, puts on events, provides resources, and presents talks targeted at developers and designers interested in working and designing in Open Source. http://test.ura.design/blog/libocon-2018-visual-identity/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 08:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/libocon-2018-visual-identity/ As 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 by the local Open Labs Hackerspace community, with which we share a lot of values and goals together. We were particularly excited to support this year&rsquo;s edition as it would be the first time the local community would host a major Free Software project conference in Tirana, Albania. http://test.ura.design/blog/thunderbird-style-guide/ Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/thunderbird-style-guide/ Since 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, in the early days our founder Elio helped redesign the Thunderbird Conversations add-on and even now our email infrastructure is powered by ProtonMail and ProtonMail Bridge via Thunderbird. Unfortunately, Mozilla moving away from Thunderbird created technical and design debt throughout the past years, resulting in a wider gap between Firefox and Thunderbird. http://test.ura.design/blog/style-guides-go-beyond-aesthetics/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/style-guides-go-beyond-aesthetics/ Oftentimes we witness the results of elitist practices upon users, usually worded in the form of the acronym RTFM or &ldquo;Read The Freaking Manual&rdquo;. User manuals have their place, but up to which point can we expect users to learn by reading instead of doing? A similar stigma often appears in Free Software / Open Source projects as well. The alternative &ldquo;Read the Documentation&rdquo; certainly would ensure that people would give a little more effort before repeating questions. http://test.ura.design/blog/reproducible-builds-styleguide/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/reproducible-builds-styleguide/ Earlier this year, we announced our involvement with Open Tech Fund&rsquo;s Usability Lab, providing Usability and Design Services to Internet Freedom projects. If you missed the news, head over to the announcement on our blog. Reproducible Builds has been the first project we supported as part of the Usability Lab. Reproducible Builds represents a set of software development practices that create an independently-verifiable path from source code to the binary code used by computers. http://test.ura.design/blog/ura-now-part-open-tech-funds-usability-lab/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/ura-now-part-open-tech-funds-usability-lab/ Starting 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 practical internet freedom by working with developers and technologists to improve the usability of open ­source circumvention and digital security tools. There are many open ­source software projects that aim to help people around the world – activists, journalists, and everyday citizens – communicate in privacy and security. http://test.ura.design/blog/inkscape-workshop-tirana/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/inkscape-workshop-tirana/ Quite 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 to Design and vice versa requires more of a culture shift than anything else. Having this mantra in mind, we tried to apply these principles in all communities we were part of. While Ura has a global audience, we care about our roots as well, which are in Tirana, Albania. http://test.ura.design/blog/ura-fosdem-2018/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/ura-fosdem-2018/ During 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/ Open Source one). Just like at CCC, we strive to be at events which promote collaborative projects and initiatives. In addition to that, three members of the team were there as Mozilla Tech Speakers. It can be said that many of us wear various hats at the same time. http://test.ura.design/blog/open-source-design-workshop-open-labs-hackerspace-tirana/ Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/blog/open-source-design-workshop-open-labs-hackerspace-tirana/ When 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 important to communicate better with the outside world through better design. In the first days we thought that this was enough to change the quality of visual communication. This perception changed gradually after discussions with graphic designers that are doing their first step in this field. http://test.ura.design/work/i2p/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0200 http://test.ura.design/work/i2p/ We helped I2P create their new brand strategy, visual identity and shape the user experience of their browser extension for Firefox. http://test.ura.design/clients/briar/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/briar/ Brand Identity, Illustrations, UX Design, UX Research and Accessibility Testing for Briar Android and Desktop. http://test.ura.design/clients/calyx/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/calyx/ Illustrations and Accessibility Testing for CalyxOS. http://test.ura.design/clients/cotech/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/cotech/ Web Development for the COTECH, hwsecurity and heylogin website. http://test.ura.design/clients/eff/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/eff/ UX Design and Research for HTTPS Everywhere’s Desktop browser extension. http://test.ura.design/clients/equalitie/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/equalitie/ Brand Identity and UX Research for various projects. http://test.ura.design/clients/ferrous/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/ferrous/ Brand identity, print and web design for Oxidize and Ferrocene. http://test.ura.design/clients/geocode-earth/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/geocode-earth/ Brand Identity and Web Design for Pelias and Geocode Earth. http://test.ura.design/clients/giz/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/giz/ Branding updates and print design for openIMIS. http://test.ura.design/clients/greatfire/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/greatfire/ Layout Design and UX Research. http://test.ura.design/clients/greenhost/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/greenhost/ Brand identity, UX Design and Testing for Stackspin and Totem Project. http://test.ura.design/clients/hermes-center/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/hermes-center/ Brand identity, Web Design, UX Design and Testing for GlobaLeaks. http://test.ura.design/clients/internews/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/internews/ Brand Identity, Layout Design, Web Development and User Research for Optima, Adapt, BASICS and more. http://test.ura.design/clients/magma-collective/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/magma-collective/ UX Research and Testing for Briar Android. http://test.ura.design/clients/okf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/okf/ Brand Identity, Web Development and Web Design for Prototype Fund and Open Knowledge Foundation. http://test.ura.design/clients/osso/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/osso/ Brand identity and print design for various open source libraries. http://test.ura.design/clients/tech-cultivation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/tech-cultivation/ Branding, Information architecture and web design for Tech Cultivation’s website. http://test.ura.design/clients/unimichigan/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/unimichigan/ Brand Identity and UX Design for Censored Planet. http://test.ura.design/clients/whistleblower-aid/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/clients/whistleblower-aid/ Brand Identity updates for Whistleblower Aid’s trademark application. http://test.ura.design/filters/accessibility/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/accessibility/ http://test.ura.design/filters/branding/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/branding/ http://test.ura.design/filters/illustrations/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/illustrations/ http://test.ura.design/imprint/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/imprint/ Your privacy is critically important to us. At Ura, we have a few fundamental principles: We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason). We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of one of our services. http://test.ura.design/filters/interaction-design/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/interaction-design/ http://test.ura.design/privacy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/privacy/ Your privacy is critically important to us. At Ura, we have a few fundamental principles: We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason). We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of one of our services. http://test.ura.design/source/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/source/ http://test.ura.design/filters/ux-research/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/ux-research/ http://test.ura.design/filters/web-development/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.ura.design/filters/web-development/