Case studies, process and design lessons

How we build brands, websites and products — from the first idea to launch. No fluff, just decisions you can take into your own project.

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eSIM Travel App Redesign: The RedDogFish Case Study

How we refreshed the mascot, simplified the eSIM setup flows and brought RedDogFish’s app and landing page together into one consistent product — without a rebrand.

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Brand Identity and Platform Design for a DEX Market Maker: Tsunammi Case Study

How we built a brand from scratch — with a wave inside a circle as a symbol of market movement — and carried it into a platform full of complex trading data.

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Rebranding a Decentralised VPN and Messenger Ecosystem: Raccoonline Case Study

How we turned a realistic raccoon into a pixel mark that works in any colour, and carried the new style through the landing page, VPN app and messenger.

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Corporate Website for a Software Development Company: A Large Site Without Complex Navigation

How we brought services, industries, case studies, careers and a blog into one corporate website — with a contrasting black-and-white system and modular blocks.

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Website for an Environmental Foundation: Why We Simplified the Design — Glossary Eco Foundation

How we brought the foundation’s existing branding into digital, found in testing that the site was too complex, and made it simpler without losing its character.

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Website for a Villa Resort in the Carpathians: Rentals and Investment — Barvy Villas Case Study

How we built a visual system from scratch and a website where guests book a stay and investors explore the resort — without the two journeys getting mixed up.

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Website Design and Development for an Electronic Warfare Manufacturer: The UNWAVE Catalogue

How we brought a defence-tech brand into digital, drew graphics in the style of technical diagrams, designed a scalable filtered catalogue — and built the site on WordPress.

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How a Personal Story Became a Logo: DSDNX NFT Project Identity

Weeks of searching for the right shape led nowhere — then one founder’s story about the Golden Bridge in Vietnam gave the brand its mark and meaning. Here’s how we got to the DSDNX logo.

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Branding a Web3 Project on Solana: VOWOL Naming and Identity

How we renamed an NFT project, built its identity around a little flower and prepared the brand for an entire digital universe.

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Website for a Tactical Medicine NGO: The CHEST Case Study

How we developed the organisation’s brand for digital and brought its work, training courses, news and donations together on one website.

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Website for a Defence-Tech Robotics Company: DevDroid Case Study

How we turned a brand into a digital system with engineering-interface aesthetics and brought products, catalogue, Droid Box, training and news into one website.

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Branding and a Webflow Website for a Developer Team: Scoutbytes Case Study

How a single square module became the foundation for a logo, a pattern made of binary code, an interactive website — and even a unicorn.

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Redesigning a Food Hub Website: FOODOTEKA at Promprylad

How we reworked the structure of an outdated site, added the sections it was missing and extended Spiilka’s identity with graphic vegetables.

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Webflow Landing Pages for a Global Adtech Platform: How We Work with MGID

How we continuously design and build MGID landing pages for different products and markets — on one visual system with a library of 3D objects.

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3D and a Website for a Padel Racket Brand: The OHÚ Padel Concept, Where Every Model Is an Element

How we modelled six rackets in 3D, tied each to a natural element and built a website with pre-orders — a concept too good to hide.

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Obrii in Diia: UX architecture for Ukraine’s labour-market system

How we designed the MVP logic, app and web cabinets of Obrii — the Ministry of Economy system built to bring millions of Ukrainians back to work.

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yeChek: website design and development for Ukraine’s e-receipt

How we built the website and presentations for yeChek — an electronic receipt in your banking app with the same legal force as a paper one.

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Pulse: visual style for the platform where business rates the state

How we redesigned the surveys and built the visual language of Pulse — from 5,000 test ratings to more than 570,000.

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yeDozvil: visual style and website for Ukraine’s e-permit system

How we made the style, website, social posts and presentations for yeDozvil from day one — a permit system where AI handles part of the routine.

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Why Hotburo is the Best Design Agency for Web3 Startups

Web3 startups move fast.

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How We Designed a Telegram Mini App That Reached 5 Million Users

Tassbeeh is a Telegram mini app that brings Islamic spiritual practice into a digital space.

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Branding and a Platform for a Charity That Rescues Animals from War

Trident Rescue is a digital platform that helps rescue and rehome Ukrainian animals affected by the war.

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Designing an Ed-Tech Platform for Teachers and Students

Zmist is an online platform with ready, flexible teaching materials for high school.

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Lystivochka: how we launched a cringe greeting-card generator in two weeks

A Hotburo side project: one week of design, one week of development and almost 3,000 Easter cards created.

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A Website Redesign That Made a Localization Agency Stand Out

Tapas Localization is a boutique agency that localizes media content across 30+ languages — including rare and even exotic dialects — with real care for cultural adaptation.

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5 AM: a platform concept for documenting Russian war crimes

How we designed a web platform that gathers testimonies, a registry of perpetrators and evidence of aggression — a foundation for future trials.

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Public Arena Playbook: rebranding an open-source civic communication platform

A logo built from human silhouettes, doodles, stickers and a brand book — how we made the identity, website and platform for Public Arena Playbook.

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Etnodim | Freedom is never free: a promo landing page with 3D vyshyvankas

How we combined traditional ornaments and interactive 3D models in the website of a project honouring the defenders of Ukraine’s freedom.

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Insight UA: culture platform design for the Ukrainian Institute

How we created a minimalist website presenting Ukrainian film, music, theatre and art to the world.

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EdEra: redesigning an online education platform

A new palette, tabbed navigation, a personal dashboard with progress and faster loading — how we updated EdEra.

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Pryntsyp: a legal navigator platform and app for Ukraine’s military

How we worked with Fedoriv Agency to design a service that helps wounded soldiers get legal advice and support.

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Znaiomtsi: mobile app design for a conversation board game

How we took a Ukrainian board game for honest conversations digital — with topics, pause and adjustable game length.

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Real studio projects: branding, website and app design, Web3, ed-tech and charity platforms. We show the task, the decisions and the result.

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Yes. We write so the decisions transfer: how we build structure, typography, UX logic and design systems.

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