Elio Qoshi
Advisory Board Member at Ura Design
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolElio Qoshi is a design-focused leader and founder with 11 years of experience crafting user-centric, accessible interfaces for open source and privacy-preserving projects. As the founding director of Ura Design and a former UX designer at Canonical, he blends product-level UX for platforms like Ubuntu with hands-on visual identity and brand work for projects including Tor, OONI, and Mozilla. Based in Berlin, he advises the city’s design ecosystem through Berlin Design e.V. and has a track record of translating technical, security-sensitive requirements into clear, usable experiences. His background uniquely spans community advocacy—serving as a Mozilla representative and Open Labs board member—and academic collaboration, having led design for University of Michigan censorship research tools. This mix of grassroots open-source engagement and enterprise UX gives him a rare strength in making complex, privacy-first tech approachable and human-centered.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Multimedia, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Multimedia at University of Arts TiranaMaturity Degree, Maturity Degree at Sami Frasheri High School
German, English, Albanian
Github Skills (200)
servo10
npm-package10
ubuntu10
look-and-feel10
thunderbird10
browser10
posters10
recurrent10
css10
donation10
event-manager10
telegram10
flutter-theme10
javascript10
rust10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/OpenDesign
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Mozilla Open Design aims to bring open source principles to Creative Design. IRC: #opendesign on irc.mozilla.org | Telegram: telegram.me/opendesign
Contributions:81 commits, 11 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 years 4 months
principlesopen-designcsstelegramaims
uracreative/tor-styleguide
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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