The U.S. design delivery platform Abstract has acquired Ukrainian startup Flawless App, the Kyiv-born company announced on Feb. 10.
While the companies did not disclose the sum of the acquisition, the Ukrainian startup was already a major player with heavyweights like Uber, Disney, eBay, Nike, Spotify among its clients.
Flawless App was designed for programmers who create iPhone apps and allows designers to track how changes to an app’s code alter its design in real time.
Developers use Flawless App to spot visual bugs and polish designs more quickly. It’s creators boast of the program as a pioneer, the first of its kind when it was developed back in 2015.
“Designer-developer collaboration was far from perfect (at the time),” Flawless App co-founder Lisa Dziuba told the Kyiv Post. “We wanted to change that. And with a simple mission – to help teams deliver products faster – we jumped right in.”
“It was a difficult technical solution that is hard to copy and easy to use” Dziuba went on.
The Flawless App was co-founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Lisa Dziuba and Ahmed Sulaiman. Now the team consists of five members.
As Flawless App joins Abstract, the Ukrainians want to develop Abstract SDK – a service to help automate routine design tasks. Flawless App also plans to create an open-source library with over 2,000 design products, including sketches.
In that way “anyone from the community will be able to make their own tools for mobile development platforms,” Dziuba said.
Abstract, in turn, has created an app that allows designers to collaborate on their sketches online. Companies like Microsoft, DocuSign, Wix, Zendesk, Yelp and Pandora use Abstract, which U.S. tech publication TechCrunch called “a GitHub for designers.”
The company has already raised $54.2 million in funding.
