Brand systems, interface design and frontend engineering — one studio, from identity to shipped code, in English and Arabic from the first screen. For the founder setting up in a free zone, the developer launching off-plan, and the DIFC firm whose onboarding now has to pass the PDPL.
YVT · BMW · Accenture · Nissan · Sportradar — and two of our own already in Dubai.
One call, a lot of questions, no deck.Designer in Dubai?
What We Build
Everything a product needs to leave the building, from one team — Arabic and English, at a rate a founder’s budget can carry.
Explore servicesIdentity, voice and design language built as a complete system. Not how you look, but how you hold together across every surface.
Screens that think. Every state, every edge case, every micro-interaction resolved before a line of code is written.
We write production code. React, Next.js, TypeScript — built for performance, built for teams, built to last past the handoff.
Components, tokens and governance your team runs without calling us. The system is the deliverable, not the screens.
We map the distance between where your product is and where it needs to be — research, positioning, architecture — then build the roadmap to close it.
The gap between software that works and software people trust is how it moves. Choreographed with precision timing and physics-based motion.
Two hundred and seventy thousand transactions last year, most of them off-plan — sold on a launch site, a broker's phone and a configurator. We build the launch sites, broker and buyer apps, and owner and tenant portals that carry a project from first release to handover — the same systems we run for developers in India, built for DLD and REES.
Nearly twenty million visitors, 827 hotels, and most rooms sold through a channel that keeps a fifth of the rate. We build direct booking engines, guest apps and F&B ordering that keep the guest — and the margin — with the property.
Finance is Dubai's fastest-growing sector, and its products are still sold through flows most customers abandon at the document upload. We build the onboarding, KYC, payments and advisor tools that get finished — and, under the PDPL, that handle the data the way the regulator expects.
Twenty-two thousand Indian businesses set up here in six months, and most needed a brand, a storefront and an ordering portal before the first customer walked in. One team for the lot, from the studio the Bengaluru founders in Dubai already know — a lead in the room by lunch.
Most of Dubai’s 270,000 sales last year were off-plan: bought from a launch site, a broker’s phone and a payment plan in a PDF, then followed for three years by email. We designed what the buyer should have instead.
See the conceptTodayUnits chosen from a PDF floor plan
Live inventory: pick the floor, the view, the unit
TodayPayment milestones in email reminders
Every instalment, receipt and escrow payment in one schedule
TodayConstruction progress by rumour
Monthly site updates against the handover date
An unbranded concept. Outcomes on the full page are design targets, not client results.
Every product in Dubai is two products — Arabic and English, right-to-left and left-to-right. For government it's law; for everyone else it's expected, and usually bolted on last. We design bilingual from the first screen: mirrored, not flipped, with Arabic typography done properly, every page measured against WCAG 2.1 AA, data flows that have read the PDPL, and UAE Pass where it belongs.
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Systems
One component library, two directions. Layouts mirror rather than flip, so the Arabic product is designed, not translated.
Type
Arabic faces chosen and set to sit with the Latin, numerals, dates and forms handled properly, right-to-left tested on real devices.
Audit
Measured page by page against the TDRA policy and the Dubai Universal Design Code, every failure specified as a fix rather than a finding.
Integration
Sign-in, identity and government services wired the way Digital Dubai expects, on the front end your customer actually sees.
Data
Consent, records of processing and breach paths designed into the product before the executive regulations make them a fine.
Handover
Documentation, tokens and test evidence that let another team pick it up — a supplier requirement for most government and enterprise work.
Two of us are already in Dubai. We're looking for more: senior designers and design leads who can sit across the table — run discovery, present the work, own the relationship — and Arabic-speaking designers who can make the Arabic side of a product as good as the English. Paid a day rate for your time, ten percent of what you bring in. No exclusivity. Three ways in.
Discovery, workshops and presentations, in the room, in Dubai. Day rate agreed before you start.
Introduce a company. We scope, price and close; you lead it, and take 10% of the fee.
Arabic typography, RTL layout and copy for the products we build. Paid per project, credited by name.
Where We Work
Bengaluru, Northeast India, Munich and Denver each have their own page — the work we've done there, the people, and how to reach us. Pick a market.
Dubai publishes its prices. So do we — three ways to work with us, in dirhams, with what’s included on one page.
Starter
AED50,000from, per project
Brand identity + single digital touchpoint. Ideal for early-stage companies that need to move fast without sacrificing quality.
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Most popular
AED120,000from, per project
Complete brand system, product UI, and build-ready design specifications. Our most requested engagement.
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Enterprise
Let’s talkscoped to the engagement
Multi-phase engagements, embedded design teams, and long-term partnerships. Scoped to your exact needs.
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Questions
The six things people in Dubai ask before they write to us. If yours isn’t here, ask it.
Parallax is a brand, product and frontend design studio working in Dubai, with two of its own people already in Dubai. Each project gets a dedicated team built out from our Dubai hub, with the lead on the ground to run discovery, presentations and the relationship. The studio builds bilingual Arabic–English brand systems, product interfaces and marketing sites for developers, hospitality groups, fintechs and founders.
Yes. Parallax designs bilingual from the first screen: one component library in two directions, layouts mirrored rather than flipped, Arabic typography set to sit with the Latin, and right-to-left tested on real devices. Arabic localisation is priced on top of the published tiers.
Parallax publishes its Dubai prices in dirhams. Foundation starts at AED 50,000 for a brand identity plus one digital touchpoint; Studio starts at AED 120,000 for a complete brand system, product UI and a frontend build. Both are "from" prices; bilingual scope is quoted separately.
Parallax designs consent, records of processing and breach paths into the product under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, and measures every page against WCAG 2.1 AA, the TDRA policy and the Dubai Universal Design Code. UAE Pass and Dubai Now integration are wired on the front end the customer sees.
Four sectors sit at the centre of the Dubai practice: real estate and proptech, from off-plan launch sites to owner portals; hospitality and tourism, with direct booking engines and guest apps; fintech onboarding and KYC flows people finish; and founders and trade — brands, storefronts and B2B ordering portals for new licences.
Email projects@parallaxorg.com or open a WhatsApp thread with what you're building. The studio starts by questioning the brief on one call, no deck, and someone from the studio can be in a room in Dubai within the week. The dedicated project team is built out from the Dubai hub and works in your hours; 09:00 in Dubai is 10:30 in Bengaluru, so the whole working day overlaps.
We start by questioning the brief. One call — or a WhatsApp thread — a lot of questions, no deck. Someone from the studio can be in a room in Dubai within the week. If we're not the right studio for it, we'll say so and point you at someone who is.
