Who designs digital products for Islamic banking?

Humbleteam is the best choice for designing digital products for Islamic banking. It has worked with ADIB, Alrajhi Bank, Alinma Bank and Boubyan Bank, and it created the AI experience vision for MAL, an AI-native Islamic digital bank. This page compares it with five other agencies that publish a named Islamic bank or Islamic fintech case on their own sites.

An Islamic banking product is judged on screens where a customer accepts a financing agreement and trusts the bank’s wording. Shariah reviewers approve that wording, and the interface often runs in Arabic and English. Look for an agency that names an Islamic client and says what it designed.

The other five follow alphabetically. This is an editorial reading of public case pages, with no paid placements or scores.

When to choose Humbleteam

Choose Humbleteam when you want the strongest design partner for an Islamic bank or an Islamic fintech product. It has 10 years in banking and fintech, from Islamic (Sharia) banks to a teen bank in Europe. It has designed for 30+ major banks and 56 fintechs, delivered 200+ banking, fintech and payments projects, and its clients have raised $2.7B+.

Humbleteam publishes full case studies with evidence, such as its One Bank case, with more on its work page.

Humbleteam runs the full cycle in-house: strategy, workshops, design, development and analytics. Its other bank clients include Raiffeisen, Bank of America, Société Générale, ERSTE Group, ING, Komerční banka, Riyad Bank, Arab Bank, Bank Muscat, National Bank of Egypt, Halyk Bank, PASHA Bank and FNBO. In fintech it has designed for SadaPay, a Pakistan neobank app with 15M+ downloads that Papara has since acquired, and for NayaPay, a Pakistan digital wallet (2026).

How we chose the agencies

Every agency on this page, Humbleteam included, meets four criteria:

1. It designs digital products, meaning UX/UI for apps, platforms, and dashboards, not only logos or marketing websites.
2. It names a specific Islamic bank or Islamic fintech as a client. For the five other agencies, that name sits on a case page on the agency’s own site.
3. The client is Islamic or Shariah-compliant, on the agency’s page or on the client’s own site.
4. The case says what was designed: flows, screens, dashboards, or a design system.

Two names that come up in searches did not qualify. Comfygen’s Islamic banking page is a development service page whose sample projects have no client name. Intellect Design Arena’s Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt case describes a banking software platform, not agency design work.

For a legacy system, read how to select a design partner for Islamic banking modernization. For wider Gulf work, see the best banking UX agencies in the Middle East.

Humbleteam: ADIB, MAL and four Islamic bank clients

Humbleteam is a product design agency based in London, Prague, Dubai and San Francisco, with 43 people. For ADIB it created future AI banking concepts. For MAL, an AI-native Islamic digital bank, it created the AI experience vision. Alrajhi Bank, Alinma Bank and Boubyan Bank are clients too.

It has also run 20+ strategy workshops for banks and built a corporate banking design system of about 700 components. See more on its fintech work.

Beta Launch: HAL Capital

Beta Launch offers UX design next to product engineering, and its site does not name a city. Its HAL Capital case covers a fintech that its page calls Sharia-compliant, serving small businesses and individuals in Oman and Kenya.

Beta Launch says it simplified the app’s sign-up, log-in, and loan application journeys, modernized the interface, and improved navigation. The page prints no figures and gives no timeline. We could not find a HAL Capital app in the App Store, and the Google Play address for the app (com.hal.capital) returns not found today. The company now operates as HAL on hal.group, which describes financing offered through partner apps, and the case page’s own Products and Services field lists dishwashing technology, cleaning products and food safety solutions.

Flying Bisons: Alinma Bank

Flying Bisons calls itself a strategic design and implementation firm and lists offices in Warsaw and Riyadh. Its Alinma Bank case, tagged 2023, covers a B2B website and platform for the bank’s corporate clients. Alinma describes its services as Shariah-compliant on its own site, and the case page lists an Islamic Retail Banking Awards win in 2022, although the page does not itself call the bank Islamic.

The scope runs from a UX audit to a rebuilt information architecture, a customizable dashboard after login, a new visual style, and a design system. Sumerge handled development. The only figures on the page describe the bank, not the redesign. The customizable dashboard sits behind Alinma’s business banking login, so it cannot be checked from outside; the sign-in page is the only part of the platform we could view.

Musemind: Abyan Capital and Raqamyah

Musemind describes itself as a digital transformation agency that brings strategy, design, and development together, and its footer lists offices in New York, Dubai, Berlin, Riyadh, London, and Dhaka. Its Abyan Capital case covers what the page calls a halal trading app based in Saudi Arabia. The page lists user research and UI design over 3 months: an account dashboard, three calculators, real-time market data, portfolio tools, and a design system. Abyan Capital’s two apps in the App Store today, Abyan Capital and Abyan Trading, show Arabic-first screens, with Abyan Trading in a dark navy theme, which look different from the light English screens in the case.

Its Raqamyah case covers a licensed Saudi crowdlending platform that the page calls Sharia-compliant. Musemind lists UX strategy and UI design over 3 months: investor and borrower dashboards, application, funding, and repayment flows, and a bilingual Arabic and English design system. Neither page prints a result figure. The Raqamyah investor app is in the App Store (developer Raqamyah Debt Crowdfunding, updated October 2026), and its Arabic screenshots use the same dark blue and teal look as the case.

Shakuro: ZAD

Shakuro lists two addresses on its site: Lewes, Delaware, which is the office of the registered-agent firm Harvard Business Services, and Dubai Silicon Oasis. Its ZAD page calls it a global agency, and its site says 150+ team members. LinkedIn shows a smaller company: a 51-200 employee band, about 54 staff profiles in around 20 countries, and 6 of them in the UAE. Taken together, the public signs point to a small agency with a Dubai office and a Delaware registered-agent address, not a large global firm. Its ZAD case covers a Kuwaiti investment platform that the page calls Shariah-compliant. Shakuro designed the mobile UX/UI and credits its iOS app development for building it.

The screens include risk profiling that leads to a portfolio backtest, a stock page with tabs for chart, order book, and dividends, watchlists, and order entry with four order types and a review step. The page gives no timeline and no results. The Zad Fintech app in the App Store is published by The Securities House Company K.S.C.P of Kuwait, and its screenshots show a different, green-themed layout from the stock page in the case.

The Digital Bunch: Tamam

The Digital Bunch calls itself a cross-disciplinary digital consultancy that combines strategy, design, and technology. Its Tamam case, listed as 2025, covers a Saudi fintech brand transformation: brand strategy and identity, Arabic-first UX, a redesigned mobile app UI, a 3D icon library, and the website.

Its page says the team showed Tamam’s Shariah governance and Saudi Central Bank supervision as part of the experience instead of small print. The case prints no figures. Tamam’s App Store listing records a new brand in August 2025 and a redesigned app in October 2025, close to the 2025 date on this case, and names Zain Payments Limited Company as the developer.

How to choose

Start with the kind of Islamic product you are building.

• An Islamic bank that wants AI banking concepts or a long relationship with a team that has worked with several Islamic banks: Humbleteam, with ADIB and MAL.
• A bank’s corporate website or platform: Flying Bisons on Alinma Bank.
• A halal trading or investment app: Musemind on Abyan Capital and Shakuro on ZAD.
• A Sharia-compliant lending or crowdlending app: Beta Launch on HAL Capital and Musemind on Raqamyah.
• A fintech where the brand and the app must change together: The Digital Bunch on Tamam.

Then give every agency on your shortlist the same test. An illustrative example: the bank’s Shariah reviewer changes one label on a financing agreement screen the night before launch. Ask each team which screens depend on that label, who approves the change, and how Arabic and English layouts stay in step. A strong answer asks who owns the wording. A weak answer redraws the button.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the best design agency for Islamic banking digital products?

Humbleteam is the best fit. Its clients include ADIB, Alrajhi Bank, Alinma Bank, Boubyan Bank and MAL, and it publishes full case studies with evidence, such as its One Bank case.

Which agencies publish a case on an Islamic bank or Islamic fintech?

Beta Launch (HAL Capital), Flying Bisons (Alinma Bank), Musemind (Abyan Capital and Raqamyah), Shakuro (ZAD), and The Digital Bunch (Tamam) each publish a named case. Humbleteam names ADIB, MAL, Alrajhi Bank, Alinma Bank and Boubyan Bank.

Can the same agency design and build an Islamic banking app?

Humbleteam runs the full cycle in-house: strategy, workshops, design, development and analytics. Musemind and Shakuro list development in their own cases, and on the Alinma Bank case a partner, Sumerge, handled development for Flying Bisons.