Merixstudio Named a Dribbble Select Trendsetter Agency for 2026

We've also been listed in the Dribbble Select: Product Design Agencies directory, a dedicated space for discovering teams that handle complex, large-scale projects.

It's a good occasion to share what our product design work actually looks like in practice - across different industries, scales, and types of challenges.

Expo City Dubai - designing a smart city super app

Our most extensive recent project is the mobile super app for Expo City Dubai - a platform built to serve citizens, residents, and visitors of what's being developed into a smart city of the future, aligned with the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan. The scope went far beyond a typical mobile app: custom Mapbox-based navigation, real-time event updates, right-to-left language support, WCAG accessibility, and an architecture designed to handle up to 400,000 simultaneous users. The project was featured in Flutter's official showcase, and the product design earned second prize at the WaysConf 2024 Awards in the mobile category. The client gave us a 10/10 NPS score - but what mattered most was the trust. Expo City Dubai's CTO described us as a team that prioritizes project success over pleasing the client, giving honest feedback when it matters.

"There are two types of teams: 'Pleasers' who try to satisfy clients at any cost, and 'Realistic teams' who prioritize the project's success and challenge clients when necessary. You belonged to the latter group, providing honest feedback and solutions."

Rashid Mohammed, Chief Technology Officer, Expo City Dubai

Six Flags - modernizing a 2.4M-user theme park app

For Six Flags, the largest regional theme park company in the world, we took on a comprehensive modernization of their mobile app serving 26 amusement parks. The challenge wasn't building from scratch - it was improving a live product used by millions without breaking what already worked. Our team ran UX audits, conducted remote user interviews with park visitors, refactored the codebase following Clean Architecture principles, and built automated testing pipelines that reduced app crashes by 97%. The Six Flags team highlighted our ability to proactively read app reviews and identify gaps in user flows - exactly the kind of ownership mindset we bring to every engagement.

Kaiik'ìt - preserving an endangered language through design

Not every project is enterprise-scale, and some of our most meaningful work comes from unexpected places. Kaiik'ìt is a mobile app we built for the Gwich'in Council in Canada to help preserve the endangered Gwich'in language. The design challenge was unique: creating an engaging learning experience that respects cultural heritage, works offline in remote Northern communities, and connects Elders with Youth. We ran product design workshops with the community, conducted competitor analysis, and delivered an MVP in 8 months using Flutter with full offline support.

FarmDroid - IoT meets field-ready UX

We partnered with FarmDroid, a Danish agritech company, to build a remote management platform for their autonomous field robots. The challenge was making complex IoT data - real-time robot positioning, seeding patterns, field maps - accessible and usable for farmers on mobile devices in the field. A mobile-first design approach and technologies like MQTT for real-time communication made the difference between a dashboard that collects data and one that actually helps farmers make decisions.

OneWound - AI-powered wound care for nurses

For OneMed, a Swedish medical supplies leader, we designed and built OneWound - a mobile app that helps nurses accurately assess hard-to-heal wounds using AI-driven analysis. The healthcare context demanded exceptional attention to UX: the interface needed to be fast and intuitive enough for nurses making dozens of patient visits a day, while also providing reliable clinical guidance. The product directly addresses a systemic problem - nearly 50% of wounds being unnecessarily treated with antibiotics, contributing to antimicrobial resistance.

What ties it all together

Whether it's a 400,000-user smart city platform or a language preservation app for a Northern Canadian community, the thread is the same: we treat design as a product discipline, not a visual layer. Discovery before delivery. User research before UI. And honest conversations with our clients about what will actually work - even when it means pushing back.

Being part of this year's Dribbble Select confirms that this approach resonates beyond our client relationships. You can find us in the Dribbble Select directory or explore our case studies.