What does social media post design cost here, and is it priced per post?

Most of this market prices it per post or per monthly count, and that is worth understanding before comparing quotes. A per-post rate buys throughput: somebody makes the tiles, and the price scales with how many you want. What it does not buy is the thing that keeps the fiftieth tile looking like the first, because a system is not a line item on a count. We price the system once and the batch separately, and what moves the number is the format range, whether Arabic doubles the layout count, and whether motion is in scope. We will give you a fixed figure after a short call rather than a band on a page.

Do we need an advertiser permit to post about our own products?

The permit is issued to the individual who publishes advertising content, by the National Media Authority, and it covers promotion whether or not money changed hands. What your company may promote on its own channels is scoped by your trade licence, which is the part most people miss: the licence decides what you are allowed to sell and therefore what you are allowed to advertise. Where that lands for you specifically is a question for your own advisers, not for a design studio. What we take from it is narrower and entirely ours: the claim a tile makes and how a disclosure sits on it are design decisions, and we make them in the master rather than argue them post by post.

Does every post need an Arabic version, or only the paid ones?

It depends on who you sell to, and it is worth deciding rather than defaulting. Plenty of business-to-business selling in Dubai runs in English, while consumer, government-adjacent and Emirati-owned audiences expect Arabic, and a paid creative aimed at an Arabic-speaking audience is not usefully served by an English tile with a translated caption. The build decision is the one that matters: masters drawn in both directions cost more once, and drawing them later costs the whole set again. So we scope the pair up front and say plainly when an engagement does not include it. How the Arabic form of the name itself is settled on the register is argued at branding in Dubai.

Our agency posts for us. Why would we buy design separately?

Often you would not, and we will say so. Buy the design system separately when the creative could belong to anyone, when there is no Arabic set, or when what you receive each month is flat exports rather than templates you own. Those are system problems and no amount of posting fixes them. If the account itself is what needs running, the calendar, the community, the reporting, that is social media marketing and it is a different engagement. We design what runs; we do not run it, and every agency on this search result does the opposite.

Can our team make posts in Canva without the feed falling apart?

Yes, if the kit decides in advance what they may change. The failure is never that somebody used the wrong tool; it is that they were handed a template with everything editable and no indication of what was load-bearing. We lock the layout, the type scale, the colour and the logo position, and leave the photo well, the headline and the call to action open. Filling a tile then takes two minutes and contains no design decisions, which is the only version of this that survives a busy Thursday. The same problem across every other surface a brand touches is what branding in the UAE is about.

What has to change on a creative before it can run as a paid ad?

Three things, usually. The claim has to be one you can evidence, because a paid tile is a promotional statement rather than an observation. The disclosure has to be designed in rather than dropped on afterwards, which means a reserved position in the master rather than a corner it happens to fit. And the crops have to exist for every placement it will run in, because a square resized to a vertical loses either the product or the message. We build the paid set with all three settled, so testing is a matter of swapping the variable rather than rebuilding the file.

Who owns the templates and the source files at the end?

You do, and the part worth checking is where they live. The locked templates go into your own workspace, under your organisation rather than ours, and the source components come with them. Plenty of teams discover on the day they change supplier that the kit was sitting in an agency account all along, which turns a handover into a rebuild. Fonts are the exception to owning outright, because a typeface is licensed rather than possessed, and the identity that the masters are built from is settled at brand identity design.

Social media design · UAE

Social media design that keeps your feed consistent.

A feed here is a publishing surface with two scripts on it and rules about what may be claimed. Webzenia builds the masters your own team can fill, in both.

Send us the last month of your feed

What the system has to hold

Social media design for two scripts.

A feed is read as one object, published in two scripts, and governed by rules about what may be claimed. A template set has to hold all three or it holds none of them.

The grid

Nobody judges a post. They judge the nine tiles visible when the profile opens, and they are checking whether this is a real company, not whether they enjoyed Tuesday.

The pair

Every master exists as an English and an Arabic layout, built together. An Arabic caption under an English tile is not an Arabic post, and the difference is visible to the reader it was for.

The permit

Promotional publishing here is a permitted act, and what a tile claims is part of it. The claim and the disclosure become design decisions, made in the master rather than argued per post.

What we design

Masters replace single posts.

Six masters rather than sixty posts. Each one is a layout your team fills, in either script, without deciding anything we already decided.

Post and carousel masters

Layouts that hold one look across six very different photographs, so the grid reads as one company when the profile opens

Output

a set, not a stack of graphics

One lookAny photo

Story and reel-cover masters

Vertical frames with the caption headroom and the safe areas already allowed for, so nothing important sits under a progress bar

Output

formats built for a phone, not cropped to one

9:16Safe areas

Testable paid creative

One idea in every placement crop, with the disclosure designed in rather than added at the end

Output

a set you can test without redesigning it each round

Every cropDisclosure

A month produced ahead

A batch built against a calendar rather than a Thursday afternoon, so publishing survives the week the person who posts is travelling

Output

a month that already exists

BatchedAhead

The locked kit

Photo wells, headline zones and logo positions marked as swappable, with the layout itself locked

Output

what a non-designer may change, decided in advance

Swap hereLocked there

The retail calendar

The commercial seasons this market actually trades on, with the creative produced weeks ahead because the stock and the offer are decided that far out too

Output

a season, not a scramble

SeasonsWeeks ahead

How a feed gets made

Three ways to produce a feed.

A JLT commodities trader under DMCC will have tried two of these before the third is even proposed, usually in this order.

	A per-post retainerBought by the count, monthly	The team, in their own toolMade between other jobs	A designed master setBuilt once, filled weekly
The first post	Good, and produced faster than you could have managed.	Fine, because somebody copied the last one that worked.	Good, and the second one takes twenty minutes.
The fiftieth post	A different designer, a different look, the same invoice.	Nine tiles that each belong to a slightly different company.	The same look, because the layout was never the variable.
When Arabic is needed	Quoted as an addition, and delivered as a translated caption.	It does not happen, because nobody in the office can set it.	A master already exists, because it was drawn with the English one.
When a claim is checked	Whoever wrote the caption that month decided what it said.	Nobody checked, because nobody knew there was anything to check.	The claim rules travel with the kit, so the tile cannot say it.
If the supplier changes	The look leaves with them, and the next one starts over.	Nothing changes, because there was never a system to lose.	Nothing changes, because the system is in your own workspace.

Where the middle column is right.

A per-post retainer is a reasonable answer when the volume is low and the brand is settled, and we will say so rather than sell against it. It stops being reasonable at two points: when a second script is genuinely needed, and when somebody has to be accountable for what a tile claims. Neither is a volume problem, which is why buying more posts does not fix either. If what you want is someone to run the account rather than build the system, that is social media marketing, and we will point you there.

The UAE context

What a UAE feed needs.

Webzenia has worked with Gulf clients since 2018. Four things decide whether a feed does its job here, and none of them is how many posts a month it carries.

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Publishing is permittedPaid or unpaid
Publishing here needs a permit.
The National Media Authority issues an advertiser permit to the individual who publishes, and it covers promotion whether paid or unpaid. What your own brand may promote is scoped by your trade licence. Both land on the creative: what a tile claims stops being a copywriting choice.
Our methodWhat a tile may claim is decided in the master, not per post.
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The Arabic is a layoutNot a caption
Arabic reads right to left.
The logo moves, the safe area moves, the caption block moves, and the type sits on a different vertical rhythm. Pouring translated text into a layout drawn for Latin gives you a tile that is technically bilingual and visibly an afterthought to the reader it was made for.
Our methodBoth layouts are drawn as one master, in the same pass.
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The feed gets checkedNot browsed
Buyers verify you here.
They are looking for recency, consistency and evidence that a real company is behind it, in about the time it takes to scroll one screen. A Dubai Marina clinic on a mainland licence is checked this way by a patient and by a supplier, and both are asking the same question.
Our methodThe first nine tiles are designed as one exhibit.
04of 04
The filler is not a designerAnd will not read a PDF
Posting happens between other jobs.
At an Al Quoz F&B producer on a DET mainland licence that is a marketing executive with three other roles. A kit works when the swappable parts are obvious and everything else cannot be moved. A guideline document does not survive that moment.
Our methodSwappable and locked are decided for them, in advance.

What the engagement covers

Six parts to one kit.

Six parts, and the last two are the ones a per-post retainer never reaches. The kit is the deliverable, not the posts made along the way.

The look on one screen

We settle how the feed reads as a whole before any single tile is designed, because the grid is the thing a visitor actually sees first.

The grid
Settled first

Masters in both scripts

Each master is drawn as an English and an Arabic layout in the same pass, on the same grid, so neither is a retrofit of the other and both ship together.

English
Arabic

The first batch ahead

We produce a real month against the calendar, which is how a master gets tested by actual content rather than by the three examples that suited it.

A real month
Tested

Every placement crop

One idea resized to each format it has to appear in, with the subject and the message surviving a square, a portrait and a vertical without being re-decided.

Crops
One idea

Read before it ships

The Arabic set is read by someone who reads it, and the claims are checked against what you can actually evidence rather than against what reads well.

Read
Evidenced

The kit in your workspace

The locked templates go into the account your team already opens, in your organisation rather than ours, with the source components alongside them.

Your account
Source too

Our stack

The tools behind a lasting kit.

The kit behind a feed a non-designer can fill without breaking it. Select one to see why it earns its place, and what we do with it that most do not.

Figma

Why Figma

A feed is one system rendered many times, so the masters have to be components rather than files. Change the logo position once and it should move on every tile that ever used it, including the mirrored ones.

How we excel

We build the English and the Arabic layouts as one component set, so a change lands on both directions at once. Maintaining them as two libraries is how a brand ends up with two slightly different brands.

ComponentsBoth directionsA change

FigmaPropagates

CanvaPer template

IllustratorPer file

Flat exportsNowhere

How the work runs

One kit for both scripts.

The order is set by what your team has to be able to do alone afterwards. Everything before the handover exists to make that moment work.

01Week oneScoped

Set the look and draw masters.

We settle how the grid reads as a whole, then draw the masters for each format. Whether Arabic is in scope is decided here rather than later, because it changes the number of layouts rather than the finish on them, and retrofitting a direction means redrawing every one.

The gridsettled before a tile
Mastersper format, not per post
Arabicdecided in week one

02Both scriptsBuilt

Produce a real month both ways.

A full month is produced from the masters rather than three showcase tiles, which is the only way a template gets tested by content that does not suit it. The Arabic set is read by someone who reads it, and anything that only worked in one direction is fixed while it is still one file.

A real monthnot three examples
The Arabicread, never pasted
Fixesmade in the master

03To your teamRunning

Lock the kit and hand over.

The templates go into your own workspace with the swappable and locked elements already set, and the source components go with them. Alongside the kit you get the claim rules in writing: what a tile may say about the business, and what needs evidence behind it before it is published.

The kitin your own workspace
Lockeddecided before handover
Claim rulesin writing, with the kit

The kit lands in the tool that person already opens, with the claim rules beside it.

Handed to the person who posts

Both scriptsLocked kitClaim rules

Our commitment

The kit stays yours.

Feeds fail at the second script, at the claim, and at the moment the person who posts opens the kit alone. These four are about that.

Nothing ships unread
Every Arabic tile is read by someone who reads Arabic before it leaves us, and the layout is drawn rather than translated into. A set that has never held real Arabic text at real length has not been tested.
Unevidenced claims never ship
If a tile asserts something we cannot trace to a document you hold, it is reworded or cut, and we say which. That is a design check rather than compliance advice, and where a claim needs a lawyer we will say that instead.
Handover happens in your tool
Not the tool we prefer and not as a document. If your feed is filled in a browser by somebody with four other jobs, the templates are locked and delivered there, and we will tell you before the engagement if that changes the scope.
Your workspace holds the kit
Templates and source components sit in your own account, in your organisation. A kit hosted in an agency workspace is a kit you lose on the day you change agency, which is exactly the day you most need it.

Common questions

Your social media design questions answered.

Most of this market prices it per post or per monthly count, and that is worth understanding before comparing quotes. A per-post rate buys throughput: somebody makes the tiles, and the price scales with how many you want. What it does not buy is the thing that keeps the fiftieth tile looking like the first, because a system is not a line item on a count. We price the system once and the batch separately, and what moves the number is the format range, whether Arabic doubles the layout count, and whether motion is in scope. We will give you a fixed figure after a short call rather than a band on a page.
FAQ · 01
The permit is issued to the individual who publishes advertising content, by the National Media Authority, and it covers promotion whether or not money changed hands. What your company may promote on its own channels is scoped by your trade licence, which is the part most people miss: the licence decides what you are allowed to sell and therefore what you are allowed to advertise. Where that lands for you specifically is a question for your own advisers, not for a design studio. What we take from it is narrower and entirely ours: the claim a tile makes and how a disclosure sits on it are design decisions, and we make them in the master rather than argue them post by post.
FAQ · 02
It depends on who you sell to, and it is worth deciding rather than defaulting. Plenty of business-to-business selling in Dubai runs in English, while consumer, government-adjacent and Emirati-owned audiences expect Arabic, and a paid creative aimed at an Arabic-speaking audience is not usefully served by an English tile with a translated caption. The build decision is the one that matters: masters drawn in both directions cost more once, and drawing them later costs the whole set again. So we scope the pair up front and say plainly when an engagement does not include it. How the Arabic form of the name itself is settled on the register is argued at branding in Dubai.
FAQ · 03
Often you would not, and we will say so. Buy the design system separately when the creative could belong to anyone, when there is no Arabic set, or when what you receive each month is flat exports rather than templates you own. Those are system problems and no amount of posting fixes them. If the account itself is what needs running, the calendar, the community, the reporting, that is social media marketing and it is a different engagement. We design what runs; we do not run it, and every agency on this search result does the opposite.
FAQ · 04
Yes, if the kit decides in advance what they may change. The failure is never that somebody used the wrong tool; it is that they were handed a template with everything editable and no indication of what was load-bearing. We lock the layout, the type scale, the colour and the logo position, and leave the photo well, the headline and the call to action open. Filling a tile then takes two minutes and contains no design decisions, which is the only version of this that survives a busy Thursday. The same problem across every other surface a brand touches is what branding in the UAE is about.
FAQ · 05
Three things, usually. The claim has to be one you can evidence, because a paid tile is a promotional statement rather than an observation. The disclosure has to be designed in rather than dropped on afterwards, which means a reserved position in the master rather than a corner it happens to fit. And the crops have to exist for every placement it will run in, because a square resized to a vertical loses either the product or the message. We build the paid set with all three settled, so testing is a matter of swapping the variable rather than rebuilding the file.
FAQ · 06
You do, and the part worth checking is where they live. The locked templates go into your own workspace, under your organisation rather than ours, and the source components come with them. Plenty of teams discover on the day they change supplier that the kit was sitting in an agency account all along, which turns a handover into a rebuild. Fonts are the exception to owning outright, because a typeface is licensed rather than possessed, and the identity that the masters are built from is settled at brand identity design.
FAQ · 07

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Marks, a bilingual system, and the files your team can run.

Brand Strategy

A position your licence supports and a buyer can verify.

Logo Design

A mark drawn in both scripts, and made to be fabricated.

Pitch Deck Design

A deck built for the pocket of capital reading it.

Company Profile Design

The document a vendor registration checks before anyone reads it.

Presentation Design

One master that sets decks in both directions.

Explainer Video

Written twice, because a committee watches it twice.

Product Video Production

One permitted shoot, cut for every place it sells.

Product Photography

Shot to two marketplace specs, against the sellable pack.

Next step

Know what your feed tells buyers.

Send the profiles and a month of posts. We will come back with what to standardise, what to pair in Arabic, and what to stop publishing.

Tell us what you need.

Social media design for two scripts.

The grid

The pair

The permit

Masters replace single posts.

Post and carousel masters

Story and reel-cover masters

Testable paid creative

A month produced ahead

The locked kit

The retail calendar

Three ways to produce a feed.

What a UAE feed needs.

Publishing here needs a permit.

Arabic reads right to left.

Buyers verify you here.

Posting happens between other jobs.

Six parts to one kit.

The look on one screen

Masters in both scripts

The first batch ahead

Every placement crop

Read before it ships

The kit in your workspace

The tools behind a lasting kit.

One kit for both scripts.

Set the look and draw masters.

Produce a real month both ways.

Lock the kit and hand over.

The kit stays yours.

Your social media design questions answered.

Explore Branding

Brand Identity Design

Brand Strategy

Logo Design

Pitch Deck Design

Company Profile Design

Presentation Design

Explainer Video

Product Video Production

Product Photography

Know what your feed tells buyers.