- Realigning action buttons to the right-hand portion of forms and interfaces
- Rethinking content prioritization to move from right to left
- Redesigning clickable components to match the right-to-left scanning pattern
Last month, I was helping a major e-commerce platform that had invested over 200,000 SAR on a beautiful website that was failing miserably. The reason? They had just converted their English site without addressing the essential design distinctions needed for Arabic users.
For a international fashion brand, we implemented a placement strategy that truthfully connected with traditional family values while keeping their global charm. This technique improved their company significance by 173%.
Key prestige dimensions to consider for differentiation:
-
Subtle signaling vs. obvious display
-
Group affirmation of status
-
Accomplishment focus alongside legacy acknowledgment
-
Generosity exhibition as prestige display
-
Faith association of luxury purchasing
-
Use fonts specifically designed for Arabic on-screen viewing (like Dubai) rather than classic print fonts
-
Enlarge line leading by 150-175% for enhanced readability
-
Implement right-oriented text (never center-aligned for main content)
-
Stay away from condensed Arabic fonts that compromise the characteristic letter forms
For a luxury brand, we discovered that Snapchat and Instagram significantly surpassed Meta for engagement and conversion, resulting in a strategic shift of resources that improved total results by 167%.
Current platform preferences in Saudi Arabia:
- Visual platform: Primary for lifestyle brands
- Snapchat: Extremely popular with younger demographics
- Twitter: Strong for updates and public discourse
- TikTok: Quickly expanding especially with Gen Z audiences
- LinkedIn: Useful for business-to-business communication
A digital business revolutionized their business results by implementing a redifferentiation approach that integrated advancement with established practices. This technique improved their company attraction by over one hundred forty percent.
Key service dimensions to assess for differentiation:
- Personal basis of assistance
- Anticipation of promptness
- Physical interaction preference
- Comprehensive difficulty elimination expectation
- Standing appreciation during service delivery
Additional timing findings:
- Decreased connection during worship moments
- Greater involvement on non-workdays
- Periodic changes during religious occasions
- Post-evening prayer spikes in engagement
Important advancement aspects to assess for positioning:
- Practical benefits concentration over originality
- Communal approval of technological adoption
- Established procedure enhancement rather than elimination
- Facility of adoption into current habits
- Household advantages presentation
After considerable time of underwhelming engagement with their potential customers, their optimized network planning created a three hundred twenty-eight percent growth in connection and a substantial boost in digital footfall.
With detailed analysis for a shopping business, we identified that posts released between night time dramatically outperformed those shared during typical optimal periods, producing substantially better response.
-
Redesigned the application process to match right-to-left thinking processes
-
Built a Arabic-English input mechanism with automatic language toggling
-
Improved mobile interactions for one-handed Arabic typing
-
Explicitly specify which language should be used in each form element
-
Intelligently switch keyboard input based on field expectations
-
Place form text to the right of their associated inputs
-
Verify that validation messages appear in the same language as the required input
As someone who has developed over 30 Arabic websites in the past five years, I can tell you that applying Western UX practices to Arabic interfaces simply doesn't work. The distinctive elements of Arabic script and Saudi user behaviors require a totally unique approach.
- Designed a figure visualization approach that managed both Arabic and English numbers
- Reorganized charts to read from right to left
- Implemented visual indicators that aligned with Saudi cultural connections
If you're developing or redesigning a website for the Saudi market, I advise consulting specialists who truly understand the subtleties of Arabic user experience rather than simply converting Western interfaces.
-
Relocated product images to the left side, with product details and purchase buttons on the right
-
Adjusted the photo slider to progress from right to left
-
Added a custom arabic website user experience font that preserved legibility at various scales
-
Locate the most essential content in the right upper corner of the viewport
-
Structure page sections to advance from right to left and top to bottom
-
Apply heavier visual importance on the right side of balanced compositions
-
Ensure that pointing icons (such as arrows) point in the right direction for RTL interfaces