Showcase Of Web Design In Ukraine
Anastasia Miles
It’s always been of a great interest for me to study how the web design develops in different countries of the world. There are lots of different approaches and techniques and though there are overall network tendencies like web 2.0, big fonts, clean layouts etc there’s always a great opportunity to see something unique.
I’m not really sure what it depends on, the country economy, the average age of people, the number of creative people and way of communication. There has been many articles and showcases on the web devoted to Russian designers and design studios and as a rule, we can see a very special styles and approaches. One strange thing just came to my mind: though I live in Ukraine, I don’t know any design studio in here! In the post today I decided to make things right and to make a small research.
Frankly speaking I was embarrassed. I’ve actually made 2 researches, the first one – overall on the web to find out whether there are some recognized designers and design studios from Ukraine and the second one was the local. I went to Google and typed “web design studio” to see what studios will show up in the first 3 pages of search results. My assumption was, and which is quite obvious, that to be on those first pages you both have to put some efforts into search engines optimization and at the same time stand out from the crowd. While the personal portfolios from the first experimental group was a pleasure to the eye, the second one was a total disaster. Almost all of the websites I was opening were ugly, outdated, crowded with information and gave me the feeling like I’m in the early 2000s.
I’d like to hear your thoughts on this and what’s the situation in your country. My guess is that all talented designers have work either for USA or Europe as the internet business here in Ukraine can not give enough money for living yet and the heads of the companies still do not understand in full the opportunities and the revenue the online business can give to their companies. You will notice that 99% of portfolios from group one are created in English and that’s the only language on the website. Below I’m presenting the showcase of “Ukrainian style design” of both groups that I named accordingly.
What we create in Ukraine
Website: http://www.uadesign.com/
Website: http://www.bragindesign.com/
Website: http://www.softsoul.com.ua/
Website: http://www.invision.com.ua/
Website: http://www.mavik.com.ua/
Website: http://www.seotm.com/
Website: http://www.azureait.com.ua/
Website: http://www.aranea.com.ua/
Website: http://www.bizua.net/
Website: http://www.idea.net.ua/
Website: http://www.zeema.com/
Website: http://www.webcreation.com.ua/
Website: http://www.alyoshin.net/
Website: http://deluxe.dp.ua/
Designs we create for the world
Website: http://theoleg.com
Website: http://lanitta.com/
Website: http://3z.com.ua/
Website: http://internalcarotid.com/
Website: http://psyho.ua/
Website: http://www.kavoon.com/
Website: http://every1knows.com/
Website: http://www.timofey.net/
Website: http://www.maxshaman.com/#/projects/1/
Website: http://piezodesign.com/
Website: http://p-e.kiev.ua/
Website: http://www.polkdesign.net/
Website: http://73dpi.ru/
Website: http://pula.com.ua/
Website: http://neodesign.com.ua/
Website: http://whiteweb.com.ua/
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Anton
Posted 313 days ago 23http://antonavt.com/portfolio/ I’m from Ukraine too )))))
Romanuha
Posted 401 days ago 21Another Ukrainian studio web design — http://speed-motion.com.ua
Julia
Posted 512 days ago 20Agreed! Admin should start this list from the very end to the beginning :) at least or remove the first works at all.
Paul
Posted 576 days ago 19Thanks for this great resource Anastasia. I’m looking to find design agencies in Ukraine and your blog gave me a great headstart.
Pete Juratovic
Posted 630 days ago 18I like these websites. I think they all look great. Some people are just way to harsh. I think it matters what language they are written in.
Alex
Posted 700 days ago 17http://www.neodesign.com.ua – is great studio, a beautiful portfolio :)
sami
Posted 86 days ago 25we are looking for a web designer who can work at distance.
Please send me an email if you are interested.
richard hughes
Posted 711 days ago 16some nice website in this list – but some are just horrible.
digitalrie
Posted 713 days ago 13Sorry, but we read this blog to see inspirational stuff, not something that will waste time and give zero experience.
What’s the sense of including ugly works (like first 10 for example) in the showcase? That represents nothing bisides the author’s bad taste or bad search skills in the process of research.
If you highlight such a huge topic as web-design culture in a country, do it professionally or don’t do at all. Smashing Mag by the way already published a great showcase of Russian and Ukrainian web-design (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/17/global-web-design-russia/), which you should have read if you’re an expert or someting.
Anastasia
Posted 713 days ago 14digitalrie- the aim was not to showcase the studios but rather see if the situation is the same in the other countries and hear the thoughts of designers, this post is not meant for Inspiration but rather Discussion while the screenshots are provided just a proof.
AzzePis
Posted 713 days ago 12I think, you need to try this google url. It is represents results of search for “Website Design” but in russian lang. Because many studios orienting on russian search phrases.
Anastasia
Posted 713 days ago 15I was making search in Russian , it’s only here that I posted it in English for readers to understand, thanks
Natalya
Posted 713 days ago 10You really think that these sites present the creativeness of Ukrainian web-designers ? ’cause I do not agree at least with half of that. believe me or not, but good web-desing of Ukrainian studios won’t be in the first places in Google just due to fact that they (as well as studio where I’m working at) do not have enough time to make good seo of their own sites – sites of their clients are of more importance that their own sites.
Anastasia
Posted 713 days ago 11I think you might have not read the post in full. As as company owner you would search for design company in Google and will see the results I’ve listed. Thus having no idea where else to look for (and since designers don’t have time to take care about SEO though they definitely should) they will order anither ugly design from one of this companies. I have also mentioned that there are lots of creative studios in Ukraine that actualy don’t work for Ukraine but rather for Europe or USA.
sami
Posted 86 days ago 26hi,
do you know any people who want to work from distance as web designers? please send me an email if you do. salaries are much higher than you get in ukraine.
Nastia
Posted 713 days ago 9Some are good, majority is really boring, uninspiring, based on templates and some are ugly…. like this one http://www.bragindesign.com/
http://www.softsoul.com.ua/ do they know ANYTHING about typography?
And I am silent about validation…
If it’s a designer companies, their sites should be just great and worth to be a good example of “how to do”. But looking at these sites sometimes I feel vomit near my mouth. Sorry.
.-= Nastia´s last blog ..Vertigo =-.
Sizam
Posted 713 days ago 8i am glad to see here designs from my country, but I think some of designs in this article – are not good. We have many well-design website in our country, but most of great web studios are not presented in google.
My sites – http://www.sizam.com.ua, for english – http://www.sizam-design.com
.-= Sizam´s last blog ..Новенькие темы от 2010 года =-.
Tianna
Posted 713 days ago 7Nice collection. Thanks Anastasia!
SJL Website Design
Posted 713 days ago 6Cool post, its great to see designs from other countries!
Thanks.
.-= SJL Website Design´s last blog ..Our Top 10 Web Design Tools =-.
Pavel
Posted 714 days ago 5Very nice to see my first home have so much talent. How complicated would working with a Ukrainian design firm be? I’m in the states, but I grew up in Ukraine and language issues would only be minimal.
.-= Pavel´s last blog ..NetBeans – a PHP IDE for the VS crowd =-.
Dominic
Posted 714 days ago 4heavy use of paid templates…huge market in the Ukraine for Standards based design
Serg
Posted 714 days ago 3Thanks, Anastasia! It was very interesting and cognitive!
Earlier I thought, that in Ukraine only eat bacon and drink horilka. Appeared, that ukrainians in breaks are able to do still something… :-)
Iryna
Posted 714 days ago 1I new we have talents!
Anastasia
Posted 714 days ago 2I wish we could use it here :)
KTM
Posted 314 days ago 22I would like to know how much a Ukrainian website designer makes per hour on average converted to U.S. dollars? Also, a Ukrainian website manager per hour on average also converted to US dollars? Can anyone help? Thanks.
Alex
Posted 259 days ago 24$8-12 per hour =)))