Nebius is a cool company building AI cloud infrastructure, and tech companies doing that kind of work deserve strong websites. They call their audience “AI explorers,” which tells me they’re thinking about who they’re talking to. I understand engineering, I understand design, and I’d like to contribute a little insight that helps the Nebius brand reach its goals. Let me walk you through it.
The wordmark is fine, but the real win is the set of geometric graphics sitting in each section’s CTA area. They’re representing different pieces of the site and different product brands, and each one feels intentional. Compelling, distinct, and honestly the very best part of the homepage.
A different page, a different 3D graphic, and the same discipline carries through. The visual language across these CTAs is the strongest through-line on the site. I’d want to see this carried into the rest of the page where the design work feels less resolved.
The essential resources section is where I slowed down. A few cards set text over background photography without an overlay, and the copy is fighting the image for legibility. The “fully managed services” gray checklist lands as non-508-compliant text, and I don’t believe that card has an alt tag either. The pattern is solvable with one image-overlay convention and a palette rule.
Halfway down the page there’s a big labeled graphic under “AI + Token Factory for every AI need.” It reads like a set of interactive buttons and I reached to click them. They’re static. The palette is trying to do too much work: it’s vibrant enough that I want to scroll past it rather than read it. A modern AI build can make this actually interactive, and a slightly calmer yellow would let the text do its job. The information is good. The execution isn’t there yet.
What’s working, what’s not, and what I’d love help finish.
Nebius brand audit / 6 min listen
The geometric CTA graphics.
These are the strongest through-line on the site. Each one earns its slot, and the visual language is clearly intentional. Honestly the very best part of the homepage.
The yellow 3D band.
It’s a distinct moment on the hero. Whoever put it there was making a call, not following a template.
The AI Discovery Award trophy.
Custom illustration for a program they actually run. Good gradient. I’d push the contrast a touch, but this is clearly an in-house team that got room to make something.
The video and the B-roll.
Nicely shot. They’re getting two uses out of one shoot: video in the hero and stills further down the page. That’s a visual library being treated like an asset.
The cards as a pattern.
When the line heights and content details settle down, the rounded-card system has good bones. A pattern I could see scaling to the rest of the brand’s product surface.
Too many jobs in one band. I’d move the architects-and-support photography to the top, push the graphics to the bottom, pick one text color, and treat the checklist graphic as its own benefits page. The brand has strong photography. Let it carry more of this moment.
The graphic reads like buttons but doesn’t click. A version where each labeled component highlights in place (short subtitle appears, related components dim, the rest of the page stays put) would turn a confusing diagram into something you can actually parse. The interaction stays on the page. Nobody has to leave to learn what IaaS means.
Not a one-time cleanup. A system. A palette with enforced contrast rules, alt-text patterns baked into the image components, and documented form-label conventions. The next time a new page ships, accessibility is already there because the components carry it.
The nav floats in the middle of the page instead of spanning it, and when I scroll to the Tested with Gen AI workloads section, it covers that carousel’s arrow controls because of the viewport height. A full-width nav that compacts itself out of the way on scroll would settle both.
Inconsistent line heights across cards, a subscribe section that could live in its own band below the footer, and a footer that ends without a visual separator from the main page. Small, but the kind of thing that tells a visitor whether a brand sweats the details.
The copy inside the Tested with Gen AI workloads cards resists highlighting. That’s usually a build-side wrapper choice, and the fix is a real text-selection behavior on the element. Small detail, but it’s how a visitor who’s taking notes tells whether a site was built for them or built at them.
Nebius shipped a fully-formed wordmark. Runs two original award programs. Commissions custom trophy illustrations. Gets real footage from customer shoots and reuses it as stills. That’s a real foundation, not a placeholder. What I’d help finish is the layer underneath: a 508-compliant design system that turns the yellow accent into a documented member of the palette, an interactive version of the AI-plus-Token-Factory graphic that teaches without sending anyone off the page, a rebuild of the essential resources section, and a few polish rounds on the line heights, the nav, the footer separator, and the small details that add up. That kind of systems work is exactly what I love to take on. And a quiet self-check: I ran a 508 scan on my own site the same week. If I’m asking Nebius to, I should too.
