About Motka
- Founded April 2005
- 300+ projects
- 90 clients in 12+ countries
Motka has been designing for 21 years and is still run by the same four people who built it.
Where we come from
Motka started in April 2005, when Phil and Maria left an online national newsroom and built their own product design studio fusing two passions — clear, layered UX and polished, magazine-quality look.
The roots go deeper. Phil, Maria and Elena met in the demoscene in 1998, on the dawn of digital graphic design. We built our first website in June 1999.
In 2016 we moved the business to Ljubljana, Slovenia, and opened Motka d.o.o. for international clients. Today the team works remotely from different locations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
How long we stay
The numbers we are most proud of are not conversion lifts. They are years. Our longest client relationships run 13 and 12 years. A lot of our clients have been with us for over 5 years. Most of them started as a single fixed-scope project.
A studio does not get relationships like these by winning pitches. We got them by being useful today the same way we were useful in month one.
How we work
We take 3–4 big projects at a time. Not because we can't staff more, but because Phil or Maria read every deliverable before it goes to the client. Precision takes time.
The process is iterative: weekly cycles, intermediate drafts before the final, up to 3 revisions per screen. Decisions are made with you along the way, not presented as completed fact.
We work with clients as partners. We do peer reviews between designers. At Motka, design is a team sport.
Core team
Other team members
Roman, Anton, Nikita — Senior designers
Serge — Art Director, Illustrator
David — Senior frontend developer
Senior designers only. Nothing gets delegated down.
If you need a design team that will still be around 10 years from now, book a 30-minute call with us.
Book a callThe numbers we are most proud of
13 years
since 2013
GipsyTeam
Started 2013 as a forum redesign. Now covers product UI, payments interface, content systems, mobile. Five generations of the platform, all done by Motka.
12 years
B2B media
Interfax SCAN
B2B media monitoring platform. Three major UI generations, two architectural rewrites, a brand refresh. +350% engagement depth on the second-generation redesign.
3 years
EdTech 2020–2022
Algorithmics
Children's coding school in 55 countries. Full rebrand including characters Ai Ti and Lil Pazl. Behance Featured in Branding and Illustrations 2022.
since
2024
FinTech
Leverate
Israeli FinTech / trading infrastructure. Full rebrand: logo, identity, sales materials, ongoing product UI/UX.
since
2024
Telecom
MTX Connect
eSIM operator from Luxembourg. Two product UIs (B2C and B2B), brand system, messaging brandbook. +13.8% CTR on launch campaigns.
since
2025
Retail
Chitai-Gorod
Largest book retailer in the region. Won open tender of 15 studios. +6% conversion after first redesign. First place in a national design rating, 2025.
What clients say
The ongoing nature of our collaboration speaks to their ability to function as a true extension of our team rather than a traditional vendor relationship. Motka’s responsiveness stood out as a key strength.
The team’s ability to listen and truly collaborate with us was invaluable. The experience was inspiring and informative, making the collaborative journey as enjoyable as it was productive.
Customers engagement raised 3 times with launching a renewed SCAN powered by Motka. We’re impressed with their ability to accomplish complicated tasks and pack them into interfaces.
