UX/UI design agencies in Ukraine draw on one of the deepest pools of product design talent in Europe, and the country’s studios now work mostly for SaaS, fintech, healthcare and AI companies in the US, the UK and the EU. The strongest ones sell more than screens. They run user research, untangle information architecture, build design systems that developers can actually ship, and stay involved after launch to read the numbers.
This guide covers design-led studios only: firms whose main business is UX research, UI design, product design and design systems, each with a studio or headquarters in a named Ukrainian city that we checked on the firm’s own website. If you need a full engineering partner rather than a design team, start with our guide to the Top IT Companies In Ukraine For 2026 instead.
| Company | Location | Team Size | Best For |
| Eleken | Kyiv | n/a | SaaS teams that want embedded designers on a subscription |
| Cieden | Lviv | n/a | Complex B2B and enterprise software |
| Arounda | Odesa | 50+ | Product redesigns and MVPs in fintech, AI and Web3 |
| Spaceberry Studio | Kyiv | n/a | Startups that want a dedicated design lead at a fixed monthly fee |
| Gapsy Studio | Dnipro | n/a | UX research, SaaS design and Web3 interfaces |
| Zaycev Studio | Chernivtsi | n/a | Senior-led UX audits and redesigns for tech and AI products |
| Dose of Culture | Lviv | n/a | Design systems for SaaS, ERP and CRM products |
| League Design Agency | Kyiv | n/a | Brands that need UI, web and a design system together |
| Flying Age | Lviv | n/a | Discovery and concept design for fintech and AI platforms |
| Figmatica | Lviv | n/a | Small senior team for websites and product UX |
Eleken is a product design agency with its office in Kyiv, on Dehtiarivska Street, and a US entity in Newark, Delaware. The studio says most of its designers sit in GMT+2, which gives European clients a full working overlap and US East Coast clients a solid morning window.
Services cover product redesign, design from scratch for MVPs, UX audits, design systems, consulting, team extension and product design engineering, with UX research built into the deliverables. The site lists experience across sales tools, fintech, healthcare, marketing, data products, geoservices, developer tools, AI, legal tech and real estate, and describes 11 years of work and more than 400 products. Published case studies include Datawisp, SEO Alive, NWORX and Zaplify.
The engagement model is the main reason buyers shortlist Eleken. Designers work on a subscription, full time or part time, and talk directly with the client’s product team. The minimum contract is two months, capacity can be scaled up or down month to month, and the studio says it keeps designers on the bench so a project can start quickly. That suits a SaaS company with a backlog of features that needs steady design throughput rather than a one-off project.
Best for: B2B SaaS and data-heavy products that want embedded designers on flexible monthly terms.
Cieden lists its Ukrainian office on Stetska Street in Lviv, alongside offices in Toronto and Wilmington, Delaware. The company calls itself remote-first, with teams across Europe and North America, and focuses on the kind of software where UX problems are really logic problems: enterprise platforms, B2B SaaS and AI-native products.
The service list covers product design, UX/UI design, UX strategy and consulting, UX audits, UX research and prototyping, plus design management and dedicated design teams with product designers, design leads, strategists and project managers. Industry pages cover healthcare, logistics, edtech, HR tech and construction, with further work in fintech, real estate, ecommerce, BPM and ERP design. Case studies on the site include Sitenna, a telecom site acquisition platform redesigned for 5G networks that the studio says earned a UX Design Awards nomination (self-reported), and Lykon, a health and wellness product where Cieden reports a 135% rise in NPS after reworking onboarding and meal planning.
Cieden is unusually open about how it bills. Alongside time and materials, it offers a partnership model with a fixed estimate plus a 10% risk buffer, and overruns billed at half the original rate. Clients can interview the assigned designer before work starts. It suits product leaders who need a design team comfortable with dense workflows, permissions and data.
Arounda lists its offices in Odesa, on the Haharinske Plateau, and in Tallinn, Estonia. The company traces its start to 2016 and reports a team of more than 50 people, made up of product managers, designers, developers and business analysts. That mix makes it a design-led studio that can also carry a product through build, which is useful for founders who want one team from first wireframe to release.
Its core offers are product redesign, MVP design and development, and team extension. Design services include UI/UX design, web design, mobile app design and branding, and the site advertises a free UX/UI audit as a starting point. Industries listed are AI and machine learning, fintech, healthcare and wellness, cybersecurity, SaaS, Web3 and blockchain, and HR tech. Featured case studies include MYSO Finance, a Web3 lending product, MOJO-CX by TMAC, an AI coaching tool for contact centers, and Enzyme, a platform for tokenized financial products. Arounda also lists Automattic and WordPress among its partners.
Best for: fintech, AI and Web3 products that need a redesign or an MVP with design in charge of the work.
Spaceberry Studio is a Kyiv product design studio with a second office in Amsterdam, and it states on its site that it is a Diia.City resident, Ukraine’s legal regime for tech companies. Each client gets a dedicated design lead and a project manager.
Its UI/UX practice covers UX research, UX audits, design system creation, product design and SaaS design, with digital branding, motion and 2D/3D design, and Webflow development alongside. Industries highlighted are healthcare, fintech, AI and SaaS, and entertainment. Published work includes OptimallyMe, an end-to-end healthcare product designed from scratch, Option Tracker, a financial web platform redesign that the studio says won a Red Dot award in 2023 (self-reported), and a digital platform and user portal for ELLE Uzbekistan that it reports launching in just over two months.
Spaceberry is one of the few Ukrainian studios that publishes its prices. The site lists a subscription from $3,250 per month with a dedicated design lead and project manager, fixed-price projects at $75 per hour, and a short free trial before a contract. Work runs in weekly or biweekly cycles with no long commitment required, which makes it a low-risk way for a startup to test a design partner on a real problem.
Gapsy Studio states on its About page that it is based in Dnipro, and it says it has been working with businesses worldwide since 2014. It is one of the broader design studios on this list in terms of disciplines, but the centre of the offer is clearly interface work: UI/UX design, SaaS design, UX research, UX audits, UX/UI redesign and UI/UX consulting, with AI UI/UX design and AR/VR design added more recently.
Around that core sit web and mobile app design, web development, branding and visual identity, motion, illustration and 3D modelling, and the studio also offers UX training for in-house teams. Its industries page lists 13 sectors, including healthcare, logistics, marketplaces, fintech, travel, education, DeFi and Web3, with specific references to crypto wallets, NFT marketplaces, exchange interfaces and DAO dashboards. Portfolio projects shown include Adsellr, RKDE, Scoop Solar, Pickle, CreatorSet and Mind Cleanse. One client testimonial on the site reports a 50% cut in user sign-up time after Gapsy’s work (client-reported).
Gapsy is a practical pick for teams that want research and interface design plus the brand and marketing visuals around a launch from one studio, without hiring separate agencies.
Best for: SaaS, marketplace and Web3 products that want UX research and UI from the same team.
Zaycev Studio is an independent product design studio in Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine, working with clients internationally. Its focus is narrow and stated plainly: tech and AI products that need to be clearer and easier to use. The studio combines business analysis, user research and product design, and promises that senior people stay involved from the first question to the final design, with no extra agency layers in between.
Work follows four stages: understand, define, design and validate, ending with testing, refinement and systematisation. Engagements are packaged by situation rather than by service. A Launch format covers product strategy, user research, UX/UI and a design system foundation for new products. Improve covers UX audits, research, flow redesign and usability testing for live products with adoption or conversion problems. Scale covers design systems, component libraries and team guidelines for growing teams. A standalone UX Review offers a senior pass over critical flows with prioritised fixes.
Case studies include Mysiit, a restaurant booking SaaS whose information architecture was rebuilt around how hosts actually work, Prysto, an AI workspace platform, and Keyword Tool, an SEO SaaS reorganised after a UX audit to reduce cognitive load without removing features.
Best for: SaaS and AI products that need a senior UX audit or redesign rather than a large team.
Dose of Culture is a Lviv product design studio that staffs senior designers only and keeps its offer to four services: product design, UX strategy, design systems and branding for digital products. The site names CEO and design director Olya Marchak as the first point of contact, which tells you this is a hands-on studio rather than a sales-led agency.
Its portfolio leans towards dense business software. Nomi, a fintech ERP, covered product design, UX strategy, brand identity, a responsive web app and a design system, and the studio reports 20% lead conversion after the client’s first demo. An internal management CRM project ran from user research through desktop and iOS design to a design system that the studio says became the base for several of the client’s tools. Other work includes TeachMeHIPAA, a healthcare compliance and learning platform, Echelon, a digital tabletop gaming platform spanning hundreds of screens, and MIDO, an AI-guided ecommerce product.
The studio also says it uses AI tools for research, early concepts, prototypes and audits to move faster, while keeping decisions with its designers. It reports delivering a niche ecommerce redesign with a full design system, including light and dark modes, in eight weeks.
Best for: SaaS, ERP and CRM products that need a design system that lasts beyond the first release.
League Design Agency lists a studio on Goncharna Street in Kyiv and an office on Park Avenue South in New York. It sits closer to the brand end of the design spectrum than most studios here, with five service lines: brand and identity, web design, UI/UX design for mobile and web apps, development through curated partners, and design systems.
The design systems practice is concrete: component kits, style guides, system logic documentation and scalable brandbooks. Its process runs in four steps, starting with research and problem discovery, then design strategy and concepting, scalable design logic, and delivery with supervision of implementation. The studio says it puts 15% of revenue into R&D. Industry pages cover AI, engineering and industrial, healthcare and health tech, and sport and wellness.
Published work shows the range. For Skylark Labs, an AI surveillance and threat detection company, League delivered a full Figma system for two web applications. For the Opera Verace Foundation, it built a colour and typography system that the client’s developers implemented without revisions, according to the site. Logitech appears among its web and special project clients, and a four-year partnership with an AI-driven fitness studio covered a client app, a trainer app and the website.
Best for: companies that want product UI, the marketing site and the brand system designed by one team.
Flying Age lists its office on Rudanskoho Street in Lviv. It is a UX/UI studio that splits its design work into clear stages, which helps buyers who are not yet sure what they need: discovery design to frame the problem, concept design to test directions, UX audits for products already in the market, and full digital product design. It has also added AI-assisted design system work, which it pitches as a way to produce consistent output faster.
Industries listed are tech, fintech, AI, SaaS, retail and hospitality. Portfolio items on the site include UI/UX for AnalystPro, an AI-native analytics platform, a web platform for Pebbles Ai, a redesign of a lighting manufacturer’s B2B ecosystem, a medical mobile app redesign for a healthcare provider, a website redesign for Nova UA FCU and work for the Global Culture Forum. The studio lists several CSSDA awards from 2025 for best UI, best UX and best innovation (self-reported).
The staged offer lets a team buy discovery or concept work first and decide on full product design later.
Best for: fintech, AI and B2B teams that want discovery and concept work before a full build.
Figmatica describes itself as a digital product design agency and UI/UX design studio in Lviv, with its registered office in London. The team is small on purpose: the site describes a senior crew of product and UI designers with a project manager and a growth lead, and says it works with clients in the US and the UAE. Founder Mykhailo Yemchura is named on the site.
Its work splits between product UX and high-end websites. On the product side it covers UX research through to UI design and launch. On the web side it offers storytelling websites, legacy migration, and what it calls agentic website design, along with AI visibility and search work so that new sites are built to be found. The studio lists eight industries: AI and B2B, real estate and investment, AI military tech, edtech, ecommerce and brands, healthcare, Web3 and gaming, and non-profit and public sector, and says it has shipped more than 50 websites and products.
The defence technology and public sector work stands out among Ukrainian design studios.
Best for: AI, B2B and public sector teams that want product UX and the website from one senior team.
Ukrainian design studios mostly sell in three ways, and the model you pick matters as much as the studio.
Many studios also sell a short entry product: a UX audit, a UX review, a paid discovery sprint or a trial week. Arounda advertises a free UX/UI audit, Zaycev Studio sells a standalone UX Review, and Spaceberry offers a short free trial. Using one of these first is the cheapest way to see how a studio thinks before you commit to months of work. Rates on this page are the firms’ own published figures as of October 2026, so confirm them in a quote.
If you already have engineers, a design-led studio will usually give you deeper research and stronger interfaces than the design team inside a development shop. If you have no engineering team at all, consider a firm that can design and build, such as Arounda here, or read our guide to MVP development companies in Ukraine. Mixing a pure design studio with a separate developer works well, but only if someone owns the handover.
A studio that has designed ten marketing websites is not automatically ready for a multi-role ERP. Ask for case studies that match your product’s complexity: number of user roles, data density, permissions, mobile versus desktop. Cieden and Dose of Culture show enterprise and ERP work, Gapsy and Arounda show Web3 and fintech, and Figmatica and League show strong website and brand work next to product UI.
Ask exactly what research is included and who recruits the participants. Good answers name methods (stakeholder interviews, user interviews, usability tests, analytics review) and say how findings change the design. Be cautious if research appears only as a line in the process diagram with no time or budget attached to it.
A Figma file full of screens is not a design system. Ask whether you will receive components with variants and states, tokens for colour and spacing, documentation, and a process for supervising implementation. League, Dose of Culture and Zaycev Studio all describe design system deliverables in detail on their sites, which is a useful benchmark for what to request in a proposal.
Ukrainian studios have run under wartime conditions since 2022, and most have put practical safeguards in place. Ask where the team works today, whether designers are spread across several cities or countries, and what backup power and internet (generators, battery banks, satellite links) they use during outages. Several studios on this list also operate an entity or office in the EU or the US, such as Tallinn, Amsterdam, London or New York, which can simplify contracts and invoicing. Ask how files are stored and who can step in if a designer is unavailable. For a wider view of regional options, see our comparison of Poland, Ukraine and Romania for nearshore work.
Ukraine has a large, experienced design community built over years of work for US and European software companies. Studios are used to English-language collaboration, Figma-based workflows and working alongside remote engineering teams, and their time zone overlaps fully with Europe and partly with the US East Coast.
The terms overlap, and most studios use both. In practice, a product design agency in Ukraine usually takes more responsibility for product strategy, research and measurable outcomes, while a studio that calls itself UX/UI may focus more on interface quality and flows. Read the case studies to see which one a studio really is.
It depends on scope. A UX audit can take one to two weeks, while an MVP design or a focused redesign often takes two to three months. Studios on this list report examples such as a CRM design delivered in 12 weeks and an ecommerce redesign with a design system in eight weeks. Ongoing subscriptions have no end date.
Some can. Arounda has in-house developers, Gapsy offers web development, Spaceberry builds in Webflow, and League works with curated development partners. Others stay design-only and hand off to your engineers. If you need native apps built as well, our guide to mobile app developers in Ukraine is a good next step.
Ukrainian design studios now cover every stage of product design, from a one-week UX review to a long-term embedded team that owns your design system. Start by matching the studio to your product type and engagement model: a subscription for a busy SaaS roadmap, a fixed-scope project for an MVP or redesign, or an audit when you need an outside view of a live product. Then check the people, the research process and the continuity plan before you sign.
Whether you shortlist a large studio in Kyiv or Odesa or a small senior team in Lviv or Chernivtsi, ask each one for a short paid audit or trial first. It is the fastest way to see how they think about your users.
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