As web designs are becoming an important part of the communication and marketing industry. All businesses are focusing more on their websites. Websites can easily make or break your online marketing strategies. Having almost all of the Dubai citizens with internet access and smartphones, the importance of a professional web design even escalated further. A web design is the visual and functional layout of a website that represents a company or business in the online domain. The user experience on the website will determine the success or failure of online marketing campaigns. This is why the number of web design companies in Dubai have risen exponentially. Businesses often get confused when it comes to selecting a reliable business partner for their website design and development needs. In this blog, we will enlist the traits of a superior web design company in Dubai which will help you select a web designing and development firm to fulfil your business’s online needs.
Step 1. Company Profile
Check for the company profile. Check the website, their About page, team information, brochures, etc. How appealing their company profile is? How professional does it look? Since how long they are operating in Dubai? These things will be the first step to shortlist web design companies in Dubai. For any web design agency, it is very important to have professional designing skills, although most of the web design companies in Dubai prefer to have a corporate look and feel rather a design-intensive look, it is important that their website’s functionalities and interaction are excellent. All the information required has to be available with easy access. And some other things like that. Once the list of shortlisted web design companies in Dubai is prepared then move to the next step.
Step 2. Company Portfolio
Now the next and most important step is to check the company portfolio. Who are their clients? Do they have well-known brands in their portfolio? Do they have any work samples? Are their work samples match the live websites of their customers? These things are important to consider. Explore their work, check the designs and try to understand the level of their professional skills and web designing capabilities. Specifically look for the design themes, if they are using a similar theme for all of their customers or do they have a diversity and design rich portfolio? These things will help you understand the professional level of the web design company.
Step 3. Contact the Company
The next step is to contact the web design companies you have screened out from the first two steps. You can easily find their contact details on the home page, or bottom of the page or at the contact page. The best way is to send them an email and wait for their response. If any web design company don’t respond or respond too late, then simply drop them. If a company is so lazy to respond to its sales enquiries how would they go to respond to the support requests and other matters? So, leave them. Once you got a response, arrange a call. During the call ask them specifically about their past projects, their partners, their team and location. Although in Dubai the location doesn’t matter a lot closer is better. If a company says that their technical team is not in UAE or is located outside of the UAE, then leave them. Dealing with off-shore teams could be tricky.
Step 4. Arrange a Kick Start Meeting or Requirement Gathering Meeting
The next step is to arrange a meeting with the web design company team. Most of the companies at this stage request a presentation as well, so let them do their presentation too. Don’t be strict at this stage, let them present themselves. Clearly define your objectives and goals of the website and let them propose a solution. Answer as many questions as possible and also ask them as many questions as you can. At this stage you can also request them to provide you with the followings:
- Project Execution Process: A good web design agency always have a defined web design and development process and project execution methodology. Which has been refined over the years and could really help a smooth project execution.
- Sitemap, Navigational Structure: Ask them if they provide a sitemap, wireframe, and complete website navigational structure before starting the actual designing process. A professional web design company always provide these details before starting the actual designing work.
- Design Mockup, UX/UI and Revisions: Do they offer design, UX/UI mockups and revisions? How many design revisions can be done without impacting the commercials of the agreement? These things are important, as a top-notch web design company in Dubai always provide at least 3 mockups and offer at least 5 to 8 revisions without any additional quote/cost.
- Development Plan and Time Table: The website development plan and time table are also important as it is a testament to a professional project execution approach.
- UAT and Training: Ask them if they provide a UAT (user acceptance test) and training of the CMS or content management system? A top-notch web design company in Dubai always provide include UAT in their project plan and also offer training sessions for the CMS.
This information should be collected at this point in time. Once everything is in place then you should move to the next phase of the scrutiny.
Step 5. Request for Quotation and Contracts
Once the above stages are done, by now you would have left with only a handful of web design companies. Request them for the quotation and the contract. Compare the quotations and contracts and try to evaluate the best among them. Then compare the price. It is important to have a clearly defined project scope, project time table and delivery date. Also ask them to comply with your policies and terms, especially the data protection and safety policies and the payment terms. From this step to the next, only those companies should be moved who are willing to fully comply with your policies and terms. Of course, a negotiation at this phase will help you too.
Step 6. Work Samples
Ask them to provide you with the work samples. The work samples will help you understand their capabilities and the level of their skills. Only rate those web design companies who have the most diverse portfolio with different types of designs.
Contact their Customers
Ask then to provide you with the contact details of their past customers and try to contact them, at least request them to provide you with the details of three customers. It is better to write them an email or you can also call them as well. Once getting their feedback move to the next step.
Industry Experience
It is important to know how experienced they are in your industry. They may have experience in different industries but if they don’t have any experience in your particular industry then the chances of something could go wrong are way too high.
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Step 7. Other Services
Check what other services they are providing. How strong a portfolio they have in other services and how many well-known customers they have in those services. Whether those services are relevant to you or not? How many other relevant services they are offering is very important, for example in the case of web design service if a company is offering website designing and development services along with digital marketing, corporate profile creation, search engine optimization (SEO), graphics designing services and digital advertisements services. You might not need any of these services now but in future, you could require any of those services. It will be a lot easier for you to ask an existing supplier for another service rather than doing the procurement process again.
Website Maintenance (AMC), SLA and Hosting
Website maintenance services are also important. You should ask the web design company to provide an AMC agreement and SLA (Service Level Agreement) along with their quotes. This will particularly help you in managing the website and all its relevant products/services from a single vendor. Another important thing is the hosting service, it is always better to keep all the relevant and dependent services together with one supplier or service provider. It makes the management simple, no worry for contract or service renewals at different times, and above all, it saves a lot of costs too.
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Step 8: Listen to your Heart
Nobody knows your business better than you. Follow the above steps, make sure you got at least three web design companies till the last step. Rate them, judge them and weigh them. Then listen to your heart. If you are not satisfied with any company then simply don’t take risk of going forward with them. There has to be a strong bond on the bases of trust between a customer and a service provider, if you are not feeling comfortable in going with any company then don’t go for it. Listed to your heart.
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Conclusion
We have prepared a small step-by-step guide to help our visitors to understand what are the qualities of a superior web design company in Dubai? As Dubai and overall UAE is a highly advanced, modern and multi-cultural society. The IT sector is astonishingly flourishing in the region and Dubai is considered to be at the top of all that progress. Not only is that Dubai considered being a business hub for the whole Middle Eastern and African region. There are hundreds of IT companies and vendors. When it comes to web design and development services there are too many companies. It gets hard to shortlist them and find out a premium quality service provider. This guide will help you with that. RSI Concepts is one of the leading web design companies in Dubai, our clientele includes websites for small businesses to large corporations and the government sector and everything in between. Do let us know in the comment if you need any help with your website, digital marketing, SEO (search engine optimization), hosting or annual maintenance services. You can also contact us from our Contact Us page.
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