Diriyah · Riyadh Province
UI/UX Design in Diriyah
An RTL interface is not an LTR interface flipped. Numbers stay left-to-right inside Arabic sentences, icons carry direction, progress runs the other way, and form flows read differently. Mirroring a design and calling it Arabic support is how products get abandoned at step two.
UI/UX design in Diriyah means designing interfaces that work for bilingual users on the devices they actually own, tested with real people before you build. IITWares runs research, prototyping and interface design for Diriyah products, with Arabic RTL flows designed independently rather than mirrored.
| Deliverables | Research, IA, prototypes, UI, design system |
|---|---|
| Directions | LTR and RTL designed independently |
| Testing | Moderated sessions with users in Diriyah |
| Handover | Figma sources, tokens, component documentation |
| Area served | Diriyah, Riyadh Province and the wider Kingdom |
| Languages | Arabic and English, delivered natively |
| Agency | IITWares — Jeddah, founded 2010 |
Local context
UI/UX Design in Diriyah, specifically
Diriyah's economy is culture, hospitality and premium retail, driven by Diriyah Gate and the visitor traffic around At-Turaif and Bujairi Terrace, with a high proportion of international guests.
Diriyah is the ancestral home of the Saudi state and a UNESCO World Heritage site being developed as a global cultural destination, which changes the brief. The sectors that dominate here — heritage tourism, hospitality & fine dining, premium retail — buy differently from the national average, and the work has to reflect that rather than ignore it.
High-intent, high-value and heavily international. Multilingual content and booking-ready pages matter more than volume, because each conversion is worth a great deal.
The short version: we do not run a ui/ux design template and change the city name. The market research, the language split and the priority queries are set from Diriyah outward.
Seasonal visitor buying
What this looks like in Diriyah
Traffic in Diriyah is violently seasonal and mostly visual. Discovery happens on Instagram, TikTok and Maps; the website is where an already-interested visitor either books or leaves. Peak weeks generate most of the year's revenue, so the cost of a broken booking flow in July is the whole season.
You are usually selling to domestic travellers, families and group organisers planning a trip.
Worth knowing: Plan the year backwards from the peak. Content published in June is late.
A Diriyah website has one job: convert a visitor who arrived from Instagram or Maps, on a phone, probably in the evening, probably comparing three options. Everything that delays the booking is costing you the season.
What we would do first in Diriyah
Through a tourism lens
Hospitality in Diriyah is judged on photography and booking friction. Real images of the actual property, accurate availability and a booking completable on a phone in under a minute are the whole build.
On the ground that means working around At-Turaif District (UNESCO World Heritage), Bujairi Terrace, Wadi Hanifah, alongside institutions such as Diriyah Gate Development Authority, and against a pipeline shaped by Diriyah Gate. Clients here often operate across Riyadh, Al Kharj as well, and the same site has to serve all of it.
Scope
What ui/ux design includes
Journey mapping. Where people drop out today, evidenced from analytics and session data.
Interactive prototypes. Clickable in both languages, tested on real devices before development starts.
Usability testing. Moderated sessions with Diriyah users, recorded, with findings ranked by impact.
Design system. Components, tokens and documentation your developers can build from directly.
How it works
How we run it
- 01Research
Talk to real users in Diriyah. Everything downstream depends on this being honest.
- 02Define
Problems ranked by how much revenue they cost, not by how annoying they are.
- 03Prototype
Fast, rough, bilingual, and put in front of people early.
- 04Test
Watch people fail, then fix the design rather than blaming the user.
- 05Systemise
Tokens and components handed to engineering with documentation.
Coverage
Who we do this for in Diriyah
Sectors
- Heritage tourism
- Hospitality & fine dining
- Premium retail
- Culture & events
- Real estate
Districts and areas
- At-Turaif
- Bujairi
- Al Turaif North
- Wadi Hanifah
- Diriyah Gate
Delivery is remote-first from Jeddah, so every part of Diriyah and Riyadh Province is served on the same terms.
Relevant work
Work in sectors that matter in Diriyah
Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. Arabic platform.
Samama. Corporate digital work.
Advance Homoeopathic. Corporate website.
Riadaa Group. Corporate digital work.
On Diriyah specifically: we are not going to claim projects in Diriyah that we have not delivered. The work above is real, and it is in the sectors that matter here. Ask us on the first call and we will tell you plainly what we have and have not done in your city and sector.
Works well with
Related services in Diriyah
Questions
UI/UX Design in Diriyah — FAQs
Do you test with users in Diriyah?
Yes. Remote moderated sessions with participants from your actual market, recorded so your team can watch the failures rather than read about them.
How does UX work with development?
We prototype ahead of engineering and stay involved through build. Designs that are handed over and never revisited drift, and the drift always lands on the user.
How long does a UX engagement take?
Research and prototyping for a focused product area is typically four to eight weeks. Full product design runs longer and is staged so building can start before everything is finished.
Why do we get followers but no bookings in Diriyah?
Usually a booking step that asks too much. Social drives interest and the website loses it — an enquiry form where a calendar should be, or a price you have to request. Both convert a ready visitor back into a maybe.
Why does UI/UX Design in Diriyah need a different approach?
High-intent, high-value and heavily international. Multilingual content and booking-ready pages matter more than volume, because each conversion is worth a great deal. Diriyah's economy is culture, hospitality and premium retail, driven by Diriyah Gate and the visitor traffic around At-Turaif and Bujairi Terrace, with a high proportion of international guests.. A page built for a national audience misses both of those, which is why we scope ui/ux design work in Diriyah from the local market outward.
Do you work with heritage tourism businesses in Diriyah?
Yes — heritage tourism is one of the largest sectors in Diriyah, alongside hospitality & fine dining and premium retail. We also work across government, education, healthcare and professional services in Riyadh Province.
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Tell us what you are trying to achieve in Diriyah. We reply within one business day, in Arabic or English, with a straight answer about whether we are the right studio for it.
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