Web Awards UA Competition Platform Case Study

Client

Web Awards UA is an annual national award for websites and mobile apps that brings together professionals of Ukraine's digital industry. The competition recognizes the country's best digital solutions and sets quality standards for online products. For the award, the website is the competition itself: this is where entries are submitted, votes are cast and results are published.

Challenges

The competition online platform had to be built from scratch. It needed to automate the award's key processes, from entry submission to announcing the results, and be convenient for all parties: organizers, nominees and visitors.

Platform users include agencies and web studios, marketers and designers who submit their work; business clients looking for contractors among the best projects; and visitors who vote for their favorite websites and apps.

A multi-stage competition: entry submission, voting and results in a single system.
Participant self-service: personal accounts where they can add and edit their work.
Fair voting: public and expert voting with reliable vote verification.
Organizer control: project moderation, category management, analytics.

Solution

Scenarios from the organizers. We interviewed the organizers, described the participation, voting and moderation scenarios, and wrote the technical specification.
Design with room to grow. We created the visual style, mockups of the main screens and a design language that can scale to new sections.
Accounts and admin panel. We developed personal accounts, a project submission form, search and an admin panel for moderation and category management.
Voting protected against fraud. We set up public and expert voting algorithms, vote manipulation protection and statistics processing.
Launch and support. We ran usability and load tests and a security review, helped with domain migration and analytics, and after launch took the platform on for technical support.

Results

The full participation cycle online: submission, confirmation, voting, results and an archive of past seasons.
Stable, fast performance during peak loads.
Traffic growth driven by SEO setup, participant activity and social media reach.
Analytics on engagement, traffic sources and campaign performance.
A platform that promotes Ukraine's digital market and motivates teams and studios.