Named after a fish that travels with something bigger.
A ramora attaches itself to sharks and whales, crossing oceans it could never manage alone, clearing the way as it goes. That is the relationship we try to build with every client: attached to your ambitions, moving at your pace, doing the unglamorous work that clears a path forward.
Started by two designers who were tired of disposable websites.
Ramora Designs was founded in Nairobi in 2020, after years spent watching good businesses get let down by websites that were beautiful on delivery day and forgotten a month later. We built the studio around the opposite idea: a website is infrastructure, not decoration, and deserves the same rigour as any other part of the business.
Since then we have grown into a small, senior team working with founders and marketing leads across finance, retail, health, and logistics, most of whom we never meet in person, and all of whom we treat like the room is the same size either way.
Since then we have grown into a small, senior team working with founders and marketing leads across finance, retail, health, and logistics, most of whom we never meet in person, and all of whom we treat like the room is the same size either way.
Four ideas that shape every project.
01
Clarity beats cleverness
If a visitor has to think about how to use your site, the design has already failed once. We choose the obvious layout over the impressive one, every time.
02
Restraint is a skill
Most sites fail from having too much, not too little. Editing hard is where our best work happens.
03
Trust is designed, not claimed
Testimonials and badges help, but trust mostly comes from a site that loads fast, reads clearly, and never overpromises.
04
The relationship outlasts the launch
Our best client relationships run for years, through redesigns, rebrands, and the odd Tuesday-morning fix.
A small studio, on purpose.
We stay intentionally small so every project gets senior attention, no handing your brief down a chain of juniors you’ll never speak to.
Founder & Creative Director
Amara Ochieng
Fifteen years across agency and in-house design roles before founding Ramora. Leads brand and identity work.
Founder & Technical Director
Daniel Reyes
Full-stack engineer turned front-end specialist. Leads every build and keeps performance non-negotiable.
Senior Product Designer
Priya Nair
Focuses on UX for product and SaaS sites, from information architecture through to interface detail.