Website Design for Ecommerce Businesses in the UAE

Designing for desktop first. Over 80% of UAE ecommerce traffic is mobile. If your store looks great on a laptop but is clunky on a phone, you are designing for the minority. Start with the mobile experience and scale up.

Checkout flows that require account creation before purchasing. Forcing registration adds friction at the worst possible moment. Offer guest checkout first and invite account creation after the purchase is complete.

Slow page loads from unoptimised images and heavy themes. UAE shoppers on mobile data expect pages to load in under three seconds. A store that takes five or six seconds to load loses over half its visitors before they see a single product.

Poor search functionality. If shoppers cannot find what they want quickly, they leave. Invest in a search tool that handles typos, synonyms, and partial matches. For larger catalogues, search is often more important than navigation.

We start by analysing your current store performance: heat maps, checkout funnel data, device split, and bounce rates by page type. This shows us exactly where customers are dropping off and why.

We design and prototype the new store experience with mobile as the primary viewport, testing key user journeys like product search, category browsing, product comparison, and checkout on actual devices.

We build the store on your chosen platform with all UAE-specific requirements: COD integration, Arabic support if needed, local payment gateway connections, and shipping calculator integrations that work for GCC delivery.

After launch, we monitor conversion rates, page speed metrics, and checkout completion rates for 30 days, making adjustments based on real user behaviour data to optimise performance.