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title: Lending a Hand · RT Design Studio
url: https://rt.md/en/umarul/
description: We send redesign proposals to the institutions and organisations building a digital Moldova. No pressure, no hidden agenda.
alternate: RO: https://rt.md/umarul/
source: RT Design Studio, https://rt.md (contact: mail@rt.md)
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Lending a Hand · a pro bono initiative by RT Design Studio

# Lending a hand. To digital Moldova.

Redesign proposals, on our own initiative.
No pressure, no hidden agenda.
A live mockup and code, ready to use.
Everything you get stays yours.

We send redesign proposals to the institutions and organisations building a digital Moldova.

Read on ↓

01 · Why

## Four honest reasons

- 01

#### Experience plus AI means speed

What used to take us a month now takes a week. We put the time saved into something useful.

- 02

#### Not mainly for the money

We saw the need, and we love what we do. If a collaboration follows, great. If not, we’ve done what we believed was worth doing.

- 03

#### Moldova has a shot at a big leap

In institutions, public services, NGOs and infrastructure. The moment is now, and experience is no longer held back by production capacity.

- 04

#### We’re one message away

Paid or not depends on the context. What matters is that things look and work better.

02 · What you get

## Everything we made, in your hands

- **A live mockup** A solid starting point, built on your real data.
- **HTML and CSS code** Ready to implement, if needed.
- **Recommendations** On accessibility, performance and search, where they help.
- **No strings attached** Use it or not, it’s yours.

Then it’s your call: use it, ignore it or bring us in for something bigger. We’re fine with any of them.

03 · Proposals so far

## A growing list

- June 2026

### Sony Center Moldova

Online shop and strategy

The home page, a category (cameras) and a product (α7C II), plus a “now vs. what it could be” comparison and the big steps: cart, an account that tracks your warranty, blog, app. A mockup on their real data, with code ready to integrate.

##### Why

They brought the first Sony products to Moldova, but their online experience doesn’t yet live up to the brand.

##### Outcome

The team responded positively and is looking at implementing some of the recommendations.

[The proposal ↗](https://rt.md/en/umarul/)
- May 2026

### NIC.MD

.md domain registration

The domain registration flow, the user dashboard and the public pages, with HTML and code.

##### Why

Almost everyone who registers a .md domain passes through here. There’s room for much better.

##### Outcome

NIC.MD thanked us; for now it doesn’t fit their priorities. The door stays open, on both sides.

[The Academy study →](https://rt.md/en/academia/nicmd/)

We also write up the process behind each proposal as a study in the [Design Academy](https://rt.md/en/academia/), where we learn in public.

04 · Lending a Hand and the Academy

## Two initiatives, one way of working

[Learning in public**Design Academy** We publish the process so anyone can learn from it: the analysis, the options, the doubts. On real brands, from here and everywhere.rt.md/academia ↗](https://rt.md/en/academia/) [Giving**Lending a Hand** We send the proposal to whoever can use it: mockup, code, recommendations. For organisations building a digital Moldova.You are here](https://rt.md/en/umarul/)

Sometimes one project is both: a proposal sent through Lending a Hand becomes a study in the Academy.

05 · How we choose

## A few simple filters

- **It deserves better** We see something that could work much better.
- **It helps many people** An institution or organisation that touches many lives.
- **It fits in a week** We can deliver something concrete in a few days.
- **For the joy of it** We do it on our own initiative, in our spare time.

06 · What we don’t do

## Just as important

- 01

#### We don’t spam

Never in bulk, never generic. Only where we see real value.

- 02

#### No hidden sales pitch

The proposal is a gift. A commercial conversation follows only if you ask for one.

- 03

#### We ask for nothing in return

What you received is yours. If you’d like to take it further with something bigger, we’d be glad to.

07 · Contact

## Email only, and that’s fine

It’s a passion project, unfunded and done in our spare time, of which there isn’t much. We don’t have time for meetings, but we answer every email: a thank-you, a question or a collaboration.

[Write to us: mail@rt.md](mailto:mail@rt.md)
[+373 78 337 446](tel:+37378337446)Monday to Friday, 9:00-18:00We reply within 24 hours