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Top 25 Design thinking consultants based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 230 design thinking consultants headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 1,860 professional contacts across them, including 494 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers design thinking consultants headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest design thinking consultants based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ATÖLYE is a strategic design and innovation consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XYZ Designers unites architects, engineers, and creatives who are passionate about human-centered design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IKRA Global: Innovative consulting and educational technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based out of Dubai, Global is a leading ideas and business design firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SilverFern is a digital consultancy, headquartered in Dubai, UAE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Xische* is a hybrid design consultancy that helps create branded experiences using consulting and design for clients across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LIMAH was founded in 2007 as a response to the need for a connection between built environments and human experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Through The Glass Creatives (TTGC) is an award-winning creative consulting company with 86+ global awards and serving 20+ countries worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SAY Studio is a collection of creative, passionate and curious designers that love to take on challenges, both big and small.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1995, Slash is a strategic design studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PenguinCube is a human-centred design consulting company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your brand partner for big business breakthroughs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Make people’s living better through innovative original designs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Idea Spice offers breakthrough business solutions using design, strategy and innovative marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M atelier works closely with industry-leading operators and owners to deliver imaginative and successful design solutions from conceptualisation to construction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our tribe is a collection of innovative & collaborative design thinkers who cannot wait to solve your problem no matter how big or small.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We Design Experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DARC is a multidisciplinary global design practice offering expertise in Architecture, Master Planning, Landscape Design, and Interior Design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We design experiences that uncover opportunities for businesses to create meaningful engaging interactions and purposeful products & services for their customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “dabbagh architects are a licensed architectural consultancy based in Dubai, UAE, founded by Sumaya Dabbagh in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bluehaus is one of the Middle East’s leading design consultancy firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arbitrary combines expertise in the fields of design and engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are what we repeatedly do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We design Spaces and Objects We Experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who Are We.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: design thinking consultants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names design thinking consultants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of design thinking consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name design thinking consultants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Design thinking consultants based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 230 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among design thinking consultants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “design thinking consultants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names design thinking consultants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among design thinking consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 494 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names design thinking consultants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many design thinking consultants are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 230 design thinking consultants headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Atölye, headquartered in Dubai, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most design thinking consultants?
Dubai leads with 171 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (8) and Business Bay (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 494 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 230 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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