Design & software studio
ziglyph is a design and software studio. We make our own apps and build custom ones for businesses and organizations, designing each one with the same care as a brand identity and drawing on experience with Apple computers that goes back to 1997.
Our apps
Your iPhone, backed up and within reach.
For iPhone and iPad, on your Mac: back up without iCloud, read and export what's in the backup, and restore everything or only what you need.
Earlier apps
We designed and published both for iPhone and iPad. Both were free, and neither is available any longer.
A guide to the whole country in one app: museums and theaters, restaurants and hotels, banks and ATMs, government offices and thousands of businesses. Once updated, it worked offline, showed every place on a map with directions, and let you call, send a message or open a website with a single tap.
Paid featured listings kept it free for users. It came out ahead of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku as a guide for its visitors, and its launch was widely covered by the local press.
The best restaurants, cafés, bars, tea houses and coffee shops in Baku, Azerbaijan. Like Azerbaijan Pages, it worked offline and showed every place on a map, sorted by distance. It came in English, Russian and Azerbaijani.
More apps for Mac, iPhone and the web are on the way.
Services
For small and medium-sized businesses and organizations that need software made for them rather than adapted from something else.
From an internal tool your staff use every day to an app your customers download. Native apps for Apple devices and web apps that work in any browser, tested and supported after launch.
The icon, the screens and the overall look and feel, for a new app or an existing one that needs a fresh face. Designed to feel at home on a Mac, an iPhone or in a browser.
A logo, colors and stationery that belong together. This is where ziglyph began, designing identities for government agencies, banks, hotels, and food and wine brands.
You tell us what the app should do and who will use it. We sum it up on a single page, and you sign off on it.
You see the icon, the screens and the overall look before any code is written.
We build it in small steps and test it on real devices, and you try it as it grows.
Ready for the App Store, direct download or the web, with a page to introduce it.
Fixes and updates after launch, so the app keeps working with every new version of macOS, iOS and the major browsers.
Our own apps go through the same five steps.
Selected work
Most of this work was made in Baku, Azerbaijan, for government agencies, banks, cafés and food brands.
Who's behind ziglyph
ziglyph grew out of one person's two loves: Apple computers and good design.
Zaur's friendship with the Apple Macintosh began in 1997, when he was production manager of the Baku Sun, an English-language newspaper in Baku, Azerbaijan. A year later he started his own company, azeriMAC, to sell and service Macs, and became the only Apple-certified service engineer in the country, the person Mac users called when something went wrong. He then trained as a graphic designer, and azeriMAC grew into ziglyph, a design studio that created identities for state agencies, banks, hotels and much-loved local brands, and built Azerbaijan Pages, one of the first professional iPhone apps made in Azerbaijan.
After moving to the United States, he spent more than a decade in corporate IT, learning how technology behaves at scale and what it takes to keep it secure and reliable.
All of that shapes how the studio works today. Every app is designed with the same care as a brand identity and built the way a service engineer would want it: simple to use, careful with your data and made to last.
Zaur leads ziglyph as its founder and consultant, sharing his vision with the people carrying the work forward, his son among them, as they build on what he started.
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