Where is Halaska Studio based?

Dubai, UAE, since 2025. The studio is a RAK DAO free-zone company and works with clients worldwide.

Who are the best product design studios in Dubai for AI and crypto startups?

Halaska, for AI-native and trading products led by an ex-Google designer. Nexlla, Anyday Design, Boost Lab and Lunis Design Lab are the other Dubai-based studios worth briefing, each with a different strength, listed above.

How much does product design cost in Dubai?

At Halaska, retainers start at AED 44,000 a month and scoped projects at AED 29,000. Dubai agency rates for product-grade work run from roughly AED 20,000 to AED 100,000 a month depending on seniority.

Do you work with UAE government or enterprise projects?

Yes, as a design partner to consultancies and system integrators delivering them. See the partners page.

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A product design studio in Dubai, built for AI and crypto founders

Q: Can we meet in person?

Yes. Chris is in Dubai; discovery and review sessions happen in person when it helps and on calls otherwise.

Halaska is a product design studio based in Dubai and working with funded startups across the UAE, Europe, the US and Australia. Chris Halaska founded it after twenty years in product design, six of them at Google, and moved the studio to Dubai in 2025. We design and prototype AI-native products, crypto and trading apps, and the design systems that keep them consistent. Clients have raised more than $400M.

Halaska keeps pricing simple and publishes its floors so you can assess the fit before the first call.

What we do from Dubai

AI product design

New products from zero, and existing ones that need to feel AI-native

Interaction models built for what the AI does, not a chat window bolted on and not another dashboard. Prototyped in code so you see it working before anyone builds it. Led by Chris. Retell AI and Pascal are the public work; the rest is under NDA.

Ongoing product design as an extension of your team. In your Slack, at your rituals, working to a plan developed with your team. This is how most of the studio’s clients work with Halaska.

Crypto, DeFi and trading

Wallets, exchanges, perpetuals, prediction markets

The segment the studio started in. We make complex onchain products feel trustworthy to first-time users and fast for experienced ones. Pascal, Ulys, Infinex and Ethereal are public work; Chris led consumer product UX at Immutable before founding the studio.

Design systems and prototyping

Core flows built in code, systems your AI tools follow

Design systems your engineers ship from and your AI tools build from, with Halaska OS as the foundation. Brand, website and pitch deck work is scoped and priced when it sits alongside a product.

Halaska OS

Who it is for

Funded startups and scale-ups with a product already in the market or an engineering team ready to build one. The typical trigger is a raise, a launch or a serious release in the next three months. We work with DIFC, ADGM, Hub71 and in5 companies as readily as with teams in San Francisco or Berlin; most of our work is remote, with in-person sessions in Dubai when they help.

Pricing in AED and USD

Product partnership, monthly

from $12,000

from AED 44,000

Chris-led AI product partnership, monthly

from $20,000

from AED 73,500

Website design and build

$8,000 to $16,000

AED 29,000 to 59,000

Brand identity

$10,000 to $16,000

AED 37,000 to 59,000

MVP design and prototype

$15,000 to $30,000

AED 55,000 to 110,000

UX and activation audit

$4,000 to $8,000

AED 15,000 to 29,000

Full detail on the pricing page. We invoice from Halaska Studio Limited, a UAE entity, in USD or AED.

Other product design studios in Dubai

Most lists of Dubai design agencies are written by studios ranking themselves first, and many of the names on them are remote teams with no Dubai office. For founders comparing options, these are the Dubai-based studios we would also look at, with what each is known for: Nexlla (crypto exchange design and build), Anyday Design (fintech and startup product), Boost Lab (web3 and fintech apps), Lunis Design Lab (AI products with engineering), and Digital of Things (enterprise and government digital work). Halaska’s difference is who does the work: a founder with Google and Immutable on his record, leading the product problems that don’t have a pattern to copy yet.

Based in Dubai, working everywhere

Chris is in Dubai. Discovery and review sessions happen in person when it helps and on calls otherwise. Tell us what you’re building and you’ll know within a call whether we fit.

The exact shape and price of a partnership comes out of a conversation, because it depends on what your product needs, not on a menu. What the studio can tell you now: the studio doesn’t discount, the studio doesn’t take equity as payment, and the studio caps the number of clients the studio works with so the work stays senior. If the floor above is outside your budget, Dash might be the right door, and the studio will tell you honestly if it is.

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