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Opened Apr 14, 2025 by Harley Denning@harleydenning
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Strategic Smartphone Application Strategies for the Saudi Market

For a restaurant chain, we produced a video series highlighting traditional Saudi hospitality, which achieved viewer interactions five hundred sixty-seven percent greater than their previous generic content.

  • Explicitly specify which language should be used in each entry box
  • Dynamically adjust keyboard input based on field requirements
  • Position field labels to the right of their connected inputs
  • Verify that error notifications appear in the same language as the intended input

Essential features included:

  • Right-to-left interface transformation that retained functionality
  • Tongue-appropriate typography
  • Application enhancement for both verbal identities
  • Seamless language switching without app restart

Previously, I thought SEO was mostly about stuffing keywords. Partnering with a professional Jeddah optimization company opened my eyes to the sophisticated reality of effective search engine optimization.

Important functions included:

  • Non-connected content saving

  • Seamless refreshing when internet available

  • Obvious display of network availability

  • Graceful degradation of certain features when offline

  • Moved product images to the left side, with product information and call-to-action buttons on the right-hand side

  • Adjusted the photo slider to progress from right to left

  • Added a custom Arabic text style that maintained readability at various dimensions

  • Select fonts purposely developed for Arabic digital display (like Boutros) rather than traditional print fonts

  • Enlarge line leading by 150-175% for better readability

  • Set right-aligned text (never center-aligned for cost-Effective website solutions main content)

  • Stay away from compressed Arabic fonts that compromise the characteristic letter shapes

After considerable time of mediocre interaction with their global app, their enhanced Saudi-focused application created a two hundred forty-three percent increase in downloads and a substantial boost in regular engagement.

Recently, a company director lamented that his social media marketing was costing thousands of riyals with disappointing results. After reviewing his approach, I found multiple fundamental problems that are extremely typical among Saudi businesses.

As someone who has developed over 30 Arabic websites in the last half-decade, I can tell you that applying Western UX principles to Arabic interfaces simply doesn't work. The unique characteristics of Arabic language and Saudi user expectations require a totally unique approach.

Key optimizations included:

  • Proactive image optimization

  • Information anticipation based on user behavior

  • Element recycling for resource conservation

  • Non-blocking operations for UI smoothness

  • Place the most important content in the upper-right section of the page

  • Structure page sections to advance from right to left and top to bottom

  • Apply more prominent visual weight on the right side of symmetrical designs

  • Ensure that pointing icons (such as arrows) orient in the appropriate direction for RTL designs

After considerable time of mediocre performance in the Kingdom, their optimized strategy produced a three hundred twenty-four percent increase in conversion rates and a 187% boost in typical purchase size.

For a banking client, we created a sophisticated bilingual system that automatically adjusted interface, navigation, and material organization based on the active language. This approach improved their user engagement by one hundred eighty-three percent.

For a shopping brand, we implemented an software that carefully balanced global practices with culturally appropriate aesthetic features. This strategy increased their installation frequency by over one hundred twenty percent and activity by over ninety percent.

Successful approaches included:

  • Selecting products suitable for adresa.murman.ru Saudi tastes
  • Modifying item information to showcase characteristics important to Saudi shoppers
  • Special assortments for Ramadan
  • Size adaptations for regional norms

Critical changes included:

  • Transparent shipping times for diverse locations of the Kingdom
  • Various shipping choices including expedited delivery in metropolitan areas
  • Detailed tracking with Arabic notifications
  • Changeable arrangements for deliveries

During my latest project for a financial services company in Riyadh, we found that users were frequently clicking the wrong navigation elements. Our eye-tracking demonstrated that their attention naturally flowed from right to left, but the main navigation elements were positioned with a left-to-right hierarchy.

  • Shifting action buttons to the right-hand portion of forms and pages

  • Reconsidering information hierarchy to progress from right to left

  • Redesigning user controls to follow the right-to-left reading pattern

  • Designed a figure visualization approach that accommodated both Arabic and English numerals

  • Reorganized graphs to progress from right to left

  • Implemented visual indicators that matched Saudi cultural meanings

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Reference: harleydenning/webdesignresources#3