01The Sahl/form journal
Writing on forms, Arabic UX, and the Gulf.
مقالات عن النماذج، تجربة المستخدم العربية، والسوق الخليجي.
Featured · PDPL & compliance
17 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
UAE PDPL after the 2026 regulations: what your online forms must do
The 2026 Executive Regulations made the UAE PDPL enforceable. A form-by-form checklist: lawful basis, controller notice, data-subject rights, cross-border storage, and consent done correctly.
Read →Arabic UX
An Arabic CSAT survey template (and how to read the result)
A six-field customer-satisfaction survey built for Arabic and RTL: the core five-point question, the right follow-ups, a PDPL-safe contact field, and how to report top-two-box.
17 Jun 2026 · 6 min
Arabic UX
A lean Arabic event registration form template
A seven-field event registration form built for Arabic and RTL: required fields first, a phone field that behaves, immediate confirmation, and consent that is not bundled with marketing.
17 Jun 2026 · 6 min
Arabic UX
An Arabic course-evaluation survey template for Vision 2030 programmes
A nine-question course evaluation built for bilingual Arabic programmes: six Likert dimensions instead of one vague rating, anonymous by design, and the dimension profile that makes results actionable.
17 Jun 2026 · 7 min
PDPL & compliance
Qatar PDPPL: what your online forms must do (and the permit most miss)
Qatar had the Gulf’s first data-protection law. A form-by-form guide to the PDPPL: explicit consent, the special-nature data permit, controller notice, marketing rules, and the 72-hour breach window.
17 Jun 2026 · 8 min
PDPL & compliance
Bahrain PDPL: what your online forms must do (and why storage location matters)
Bahrain’s GDPR-like PDPL carries criminal penalties. A form-by-form guide: lawful basis, sensitive-data authorisation, the cross-border adequacy whitelist, data-subject rights, and the 72-hour breach window.
17 Jun 2026 · 8 min
PDPL & compliance
Building an NCA ECC vendor-risk questionnaire in a day
18 questions mapped to NCA ECC-2 controls. A 0/1/2 scoring model, a routing plan, and a downloadable template — the questionnaire every KSA CISO ends up writing eventually.
29 May 2026 · 9 min
Regional market
Why we price in Saudi Riyals (and what SAR pricing signals)
Every other SaaS in our category prices in USD. We don't — and the reasons are substantive, not cosmetic. A short essay on currency, trust, and procurement.
26 May 2026 · 5 min
Comparisons
Where Google Forms breaks down for Arabic teams
A specific, honest list of where Google Forms fails Arabic teams — RTL quirks, shallow logic, no conversational mode, no Arabic AI — and when it's still the right choice.
22 May 2026 · 6 min
AI & automation
A prompt library for generating Arabic forms with AI
Five ready-to-copy prompts for HR, NPS, events, academic, and legal consent forms — each Arabic-first, each designed to survive the common LLM failure modes.
19 May 2026 · 8 min
Regional market
Vision 2030 digital forms: what education and government are actually buying
Vision 2030 targets have a forms layer underneath. A concrete look at what education, healthcare, and government digitisation actually needs from a form platform.
15 May 2026 · 9 min
Arabic UX
Five Arabic form-design mistakes that kill completion rate
Phone fields rendering backwards, next-arrows pointing the wrong way, Arabic punctuation failing validation — five specific RTL form mistakes and how to fix each.
12 May 2026 · 6 min
PDPL & compliance
Eight questions to ask every SaaS vendor about their PDPL DPA
A procurement-team playbook mapped to PDPL articles. Each question, what a compliant answer looks like, and the red flag that should stop the evaluation.
8 May 2026 · 7 min
Comparisons
Typeform, in Arabic, in 2026: an honest review
A fair, side-by-side look at how Typeform performs in Arabic — what it does well, where RTL breaks, and when it's still the right choice even for Arabic teams.
5 May 2026 · 8 min
Product benchmarks
Conversational forms on Arabic: a 10,000-response benchmark
12,847 submissions across 241 forms. Conversational Arabic forms completed at 62.4% vs 23.1% for classic — a 2.70× ratio that widens to 8× on long forms.
1 May 2026 · 10 min
PDPL & compliance
What actually changed after PDPL full enforcement (a 2025 decision roundup)
SDAIA issued 48 confirmed breach decisions in 2025. We summarise the five patterns the enforcement committees are holding vendors to — and the three they are not enforcing yet.
24 Apr 2026 · 8 min