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Design Systems for High-Stakes Web Platforms in Dubai

Stralya builds robust, cloud-native design systems that turn scattered interfaces into a unified, scalable product language. From startups to government platforms in Dubai, we help you ship faster, reduce design debt, and guarantee a consistent user experience across every screen.

Design Systems for Complex Products

What You Get with Stralya’s Design System Service

Our design system engagements are structured to deliver a tangible, operational asset—ready to plug into your product development lifecycle. You gain clarity, speed, and long-term maintainability, all aligned with international standards and Dubai’s fast-paced market expectations.

Core Deliverables Included

Design tokens for colour, typography, spacing, grids, elevation, motion, and states, optimised for cloud-native front-end environments.
A reusable UI component library covering key elements: navigation, forms, tables, cards, filters, dashboards, notifications, and more.
Interaction patterns and UX flows for critical journeys such as onboarding, authentication, search, booking, and transaction management.
Accessibility and responsiveness guidelines ensuring a consistent experience across devices, screen sizes, and usage contexts in the GCC region.
Design and implementation documentation: usage rules, do’s and don’ts, naming conventions, and code integration guidance.
Governance model and contribution workflow so your teams can propose, review, and integrate new components without losing control.

Optional Add-ons for Strategic Projects

End-to-end UX research and user testing to validate key patterns with your target audience in Dubai and the wider GCC.
Design system implementation in Storybook or an equivalent component explorer, integrated into your CI/CD pipeline.
Ongoing design system governance and evolution under a long-term SLA with clear KPIs and response times.
Migration support to refactor legacy interfaces and align them with the new design system without disrupting operations.
Training sessions and workshops for your internal design, product, and engineering teams in Dubai or remotely.
Every engagement is tailored. We start with your current situation, your ambitions, and your constraints. Then we design a design system roadmap that fits your organisation’s maturity and your product’s strategic importance.

Key Benefits of a Stralya Design System

Faster time-to-market
Reuse instead of rebuild. With ready-to-use components and patterns, your teams can launch new pages and features in days, not weeks—critical in Dubai’s competitive digital landscape.
Consistent brand and UX across all touchpoints
From marketing pages to transactional dashboards, every interface reflects the same quality and brand language, reinforcing trust with users and stakeholders.
Reduced design and technical debt
By centralising decisions in a system, you cut down on one-off solutions, duplicated components, and conflicting styles—making your codebase lighter and easier to maintain.
Higher reliability for critical projects
Standardised components and patterns reduce the risk of UI-related bugs and inconsistent behaviours, which is essential for government portals and high-stakes business platforms.
Better collaboration between teams and vendors
A shared design language and documented rules make it easier for internal teams and external partners to work together without compromising quality or speed.
Future-proof foundation for product growth
As your platform scales across markets, languages, and services, the design system scales with it—supporting new features and channels without a full redesign.

How We Work

A Structured, Fixed-Price Approach to Design Systems

Stralya approaches design systems as strategic infrastructure, not just a UI library. Every engagement is scoped, documented, and delivered under a fixed-price model, giving you clarity on outcomes, timelines, and responsibilities. We combine UX strategy, visual design, and front-end architecture to create a system your teams will actually use.

We map your current product landscape: interfaces, design files, front-end codebases, brand assets, and governance. We identify inconsistencies, technical constraints, and the real-world needs of your design and engineering teams in Dubai or abroad.
We define your visual and interaction language: colour system, typography, spacing, elevation, motion, and accessibility standards. These become design tokens that can be implemented across your front-end stack and cloud environments.
We design and document reusable components (buttons, forms, navigation, cards, tables, dashboards, etc.) and assemble them into UX patterns tailored to your key user journeys, such as onboarding, search, booking, or transaction flows.
We collaborate with your engineering team to integrate the design system into your repositories, storybook, or component library. We provide implementation guidelines, usage rules, and contribution models so the system can evolve without losing control.
We support rollout across teams, run training sessions, and, if required, maintain and evolve the design system under a support or SLA model, ensuring it grows with your product roadmap and business strategy.

Popular Questions

Find Commonly Asked Questions

A design system is a structured set of design tokens, reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and documentation that define how your digital product looks and behaves. It aligns designers and developers around a single source of truth, so you can build new pages and features quickly without reinventing the UI every time.
Design systems are ideal for startups scaling fast, enterprises with multiple digital products, and government or semi-government entities running critical portals. If you have several teams working on the same platform, or if your UI feels inconsistent and hard to maintain, a design system will create order and speed.
Timelines depend on the scope and complexity of your ecosystem. For a focused product with clear requirements, an initial design system can be delivered in 6–10 weeks. For larger organisations with multiple applications and stakeholders, we often phase the work over several months with clear milestones.
Yes. We start from your existing brand guidelines, design files, and code. We do not force a specific framework but ensure that tokens and components are compatible with your chosen stack, whether you use React, Vue, Angular, or another modern front-end technology.
We usually start with a fixed-price project to design and implement the core system. Many clients then retain Stralya for ongoing evolution, governance, and support—especially when their product roadmap is fast-moving or business-critical.
A UI kit is often static and design-only. Our design systems are operational: they include implementation guidelines, naming conventions, accessibility rules, and integration with your codebase. They are built to be used by real teams shipping real features, not just to look good in a presentation.

Case Studies

Real solutions Real impact.

These aren’t just polished visuals they’re real projects solving real problems. Each case study 
apply strategy, design, and development.

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Building a Monolithic Headless CMS with Next.js

A monolithic headless CMS, engineered with React and Next.js App Router to ship high-performance websites and product frontends fast, with clean content operations for non-technical teams.

6

weeks from first commit to production-ready CMS core.

3x

faster time-to-market for new marketing and product pages.

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Mandarin Platform Project Takeover and Recovery

Taking over a third-party Mandarin e-learning platform to secure, stabilise and structure critical cloud-native components for long-term growth.

6

weeks to stabilise and secure the core platform after takeover.

0

critical incidents in production after Stralya’s recovery phase.

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