Yanbu · Madinah Province
UI/UX Design in Yanbu
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 Yanbu 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 Yanbu 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 Yanbu |
| Handover | Figma sources, tokens, component documentation |
| Area served | Yanbu, Madinah Province and the wider Kingdom |
| Languages | Arabic and English, delivered natively |
| Agency | IITWares — Jeddah, founded 2010 |
Local context
UI/UX Design in Yanbu, specifically
Yanbu runs on petrochemicals, refining, port operations and the contracting economy around them, with a growing diving and coastal tourism sector in Yanbu Al Bahr.
Yanbu is a Red Sea industrial and port city, twinned with Jubail under the Royal Commission, which changes the brief. The sectors that dominate here — petrochemicals & refining, ports & logistics, industrial services — buy differently from the national average, and the work has to reflect that rather than ignore it.
Two distinct markets in one city: industrial procurement and coastal tourism. They need separate content tracks and separate Business Profile categories.
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 Yanbu outward.
Industrial procurement
What this looks like in Yanbu
Yanbu buys against specifications. Vendors are qualified before they are considered — certifications, safety record, past supply, financial standing — and the website's job is to get you through that filter and into the shortlist. Marketing language actively hurts; evaluators read it as a lack of substance.
You are usually selling to plant procurement, EPC contractors and technical evaluation teams.
Worth knowing: Registration and pre-qualification are the real funnel. Design for the person filling in the vendor form.
An industrial site in Yanbu is a qualification document that happens to be a website. Evaluators are looking for certifications, capability, past supply and financial credibility — and if they cannot find those in ninety seconds, they move to the next vendor on the list.
What we would do first in Yanbu
Through a industrial lens
Industrial buyers in Yanbu evaluate before they enquire. Specifications, capacities, standards and certifications must be visible and downloadable, because the person filtering vendors is not going to email to ask.
On the ground that means working around Yanbu Industrial City, Yanbu Al Bahr historic quarter, Royal Commission Corniche, alongside institutions such as Yanbu Industrial College, Royal Commission Yanbu Colleges, and against a pipeline shaped by Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu programmes. Clients here often operate across Madinah, Jeddah, Rabigh as well, and the same site has to serve all of it.
Scope
What ui/ux design includes
User research. Interviews and observation with real users in Yanbu, not personas invented in a workshop.
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.
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 Yanbu. 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 Yanbu
Sectors
- Petrochemicals & refining
- Ports & logistics
- Industrial services
- Diving & coastal tourism
- Contracting
Districts and areas
- Yanbu Industrial City
- Yanbu Al Bahr
- Yanbu Al Nakhl
- Al Nahda
- Radwa
Delivery is remote-first from Jeddah, so every part of Yanbu and Madinah Province is served on the same terms.
Relevant work
Work in sectors that matter in Yanbu
Afco Steel. Website, CMS and mobile app.
Tameer Steel. Corporate website.
Mitwalli Steel Products. Corporate website.
Tseals. Corporate website.
On Yanbu specifically: we are not going to claim projects in Yanbu 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 Yanbu
Questions
UI/UX Design in Yanbu — FAQs
Do you test with users in Yanbu?
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.
What should an industrial website in Yanbu contain?
Specifications, certifications, capacity, standards conformance, past supply and a downloadable company profile. Evaluators are filtering, not browsing, and anything that reads as marketing copy reduces confidence rather than building it.
Why does UI/UX Design in Yanbu need a different approach?
Two distinct markets in one city: industrial procurement and coastal tourism. They need separate content tracks and separate Business Profile categories. Yanbu runs on petrochemicals, refining, port operations and the contracting economy around them, with a growing diving and coastal tourism sector in Yanbu Al Bahr.. A page built for a national audience misses both of those, which is why we scope ui/ux design work in Yanbu from the local market outward.
Do you work with petrochemicals & refining businesses in Yanbu?
Yes — petrochemicals & refining is one of the largest sectors in Yanbu, alongside ports & logistics and industrial services. We also work across government, education, healthcare and professional services in Madinah Province.
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Tell us what you are trying to achieve in Yanbu. 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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