About
About UX Shine
UX Shine is a UX and product design studio in Dubai and Beirut. We research, design and build mobile apps, SaaS platforms and AI products, in English and Arabic. Our specialty is AI product design and the dynamic design systems behind it.
In short
The studio at a glance
- What we are
- A UX and product design studio
- Where
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Beirut, Lebanon
- What we design
- Mobile apps, SaaS platforms and AI products
- Our specialty
- AI product design and dynamic design systems
- Languages
- English and Arabic, designed in both
- Founder
- Rawad Semaan
- We do not do
- Marketing websites
What we do
Products people log into and use
We design products that people use to get work done or run part of their life: mobile apps, SaaS platforms, dashboards and AI tools. We do not design marketing websites.
We work from research to build. We talk to real users, design on a reusable design system, test prototypes before launch, and then build with our team or hand off to yours. Every major decision traces back to evidence. See how we work.
AI products are our specialty. We design interfaces that show where an answer comes from, how sure the system is, and how to correct it, and we design the systems a model uses to assemble interfaces at run time. For ArchViz Studio we designed the interface and the generation pipeline behind it.
Founder
Rawad Semaan
Rawad Semaan founded UX Shine and leads every client relationship directly. He listens to the vision and the feedback and turns them into decisions for the team, so nothing gets lost between what was said and what gets designed.
He has spent more than eight years designing products that people use: mobile apps and web applications, travel products for consumers and for businesses, internal systems that replace manual work with one source of truth, and AI products since the start of the field. On ArchViz Studio he designed both the interface and the ComfyUI generation pipelines.
“We design every product the same way, AI or not: with the human at the centre, and we keep testing and improving on what people tell us.”
Rawad Semaan, founder
Where we are
Dubai and Beirut
We work from Dubai and Beirut with product teams across the Gulf and the Levant, and further afield. Being in both places means we design for the region’s realities: Arabic-first users, cash-first payments, mixed English and Arabic content, and products that have to work in both directions.
Our work includes a super app for Allo Taxi, a household taxi brand in Lebanon, and a car-parts marketplace for MAP in Dubai.
Clients
Who we have worked with
- Traveln.ai
- MAP
- Allo Taxi
- Ejjatiown product
“Before partnering with UX Shine, we were leaning toward hiring in-house designers to build our map feature. In just a few weeks, they designed a map experience that streamlined trip planning and introduced strategic ideas.”
Imad AfyouniCEO and co-founder, Traveln.aiSister studio
Aimplifica
Company-wide AI adoption and automation programmes run through our sister studio, Aimplifica. UX Shine designs the products; Aimplifica helps organisations put AI to work across their teams.
Tell us what you are building.
We reply by email to set up a call. Most projects start with a short conversation and a scoped proposal.