On April 23, 2024, Lviv-based Dops Agency won the prestigious Webby Award for its new website. In this category, the team beat top global studios such as Locomotive, Lusion, and MetaLab. This victory is a recognition of the talent and creativity of the Ukrainian team, which has been working hard for 8 years to become one of the leaders in digital design.

Webby Award and Its Significance for Ukraine

The Webby Award, often referred to as the Digital Oscar, is considered one of the most important awards in the field of web design and development. For most agencies, a great achievement is not even the victory itself but participation and the status of Honoree or Nominee. In 2024, about 13,000 websites from more than 70 countries competed for the award.
 
The victory of Dops Agency shows not only the talent and skill of the team but also the growing strength of Ukrainian design and creativity on the global stage. And thanks to Dops, the Webby statuette came to Lviv for the first time in history.
 

A Difficult Start

In 2016, two talented Lviv designers realized that it was time to change the rules of the game. Looking at the similar solutions that overwhelmed the market, they decided to join forces and create something exquisite and unique in web design. That's how Dops Agency was born. They started, like many, with small projects for local customers.
 
 
However, the team strived for more and regularly updated their portfolio on the most popular design platform, Behance, where they soon began to receive awards in the User Interface and Experience Design categories. As each new project was executed at the highest level, Dops quickly earned a reputation as one of the best design studios in Ukraine, according to the well-known online review platform Clutch.co.
 

Global Recognition

In 2019, Dops Agency entered the international market. The first significant success for the agency was winning a global tender for the design and development of a website for VISA Corporation for the FIFA World Cup. The client was delighted with the statistics that exceeded his expectations. It was the moment when the team felt ready for global challenges.
 
Therefore, in 2020, Dops Agency took part in the prestigious Awwwards and CSS Design Awards for the first time, where they got several wins. Since 2021, the agency has been expanding its range of services by adding identity and packaging development, as well as branding. As a result, the same year, Dops received Graphic Design and Illustration awards on Behance.
 
Dops carried out its own rebranding in 2022 and won the prestigious Red Dot Design Award for its visual language for the second time. It became the embodiment of new values that were constantly evolving with the team.

Winning the Webby Award

Dops' victory in the Webby Awards was both the culmination of the team's hard work and its logical result. This is not only an award for the design and development of their updated website but also for all the previous years of dedication to their work.
 
 
Webby confirmed that Dops Agency chose the right direction, creating a design that emphasizes the uniqueness of brands and makes clients fall in love with the product through a unique visual language. Today, Dops' clients include the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, UNICEF, Dmytruk-Foods, and DTEK, and this is just the beginning.
 
The Webby Award opens a new stage for the Dops team: now, the studio's mission is to popularize Ukrainian design in the world and show that it is Ukrainians who create engaging design solutions that you want to interact with and come back to again and again. And, of course, the team promised to bring even more victories and achievements in the near future.