Thoughts & insights
We love to expand our horizons and try out new things. In these articles we'll share our learnings and the insights we've gathered while working on our projects.
How we approach internal design workflows
Our team put their heads together to collect 4 tips to design even better products and websites! Read all about how we use FigJam to gather content from our clients, the importance of interactive prototypes and how we speed up our workflow with FLOW. And oh, on top of that: FLOW got a sweet update!
What we learned at the Belgian Craft CMS Meetup
Last month, 75 developers assembled at our studio for the third Belgian Craft CMS Meetup. We had three fantastic speakers sharing their Craft insider tips and tricks.
Creating an old school story with modern techniques: Edward and the Ghost
Originally started as a macabre children’s book, Edward & The Ghost came alive through digital storytelling in a web-based interactive storybook. Wanting to showcase their abilities and at the same time use it as proof of concept for similar future projects, Once Storytelling created this first chapter of the story as a passion project. The story itself was meant to make death less scary for children.
Product Design Meetup #15 — Ghent 2022
We had to wait for it a bit longer than we hoped, but in 2022 our product design meetup was finally back! The 15th edition took place in the Museum of Industry in Ghent.
3 ways to improve collaboration with your team and clients through Figma
As a design agency, we’re involved in a wide range of projects, from mobile apps to complex information architecture, marketing websites, multi-brand design systems, software, and more. We also work for many and varied clients and count on a team of over 30 designers and developers, many of whom collaborate on the same files at any given moment.
Podcast: Proving the value of Design Thinking at Roularta.
Over the last few months we’ve been working together with Roularta on several new projects, helping them to implement design-thinking and a human-centered approach in their workflow.
How Figma saved us during a lockdown
What's expensive and inefficient for any design agency? Tons of tools, indeed. In the last few years, we've been working with a combination of Sketch, Abstract, and Invision. But even these three together didn't answer our needs. So early 2020, we decided to dip our toe into the Figma-waters.
Craft CMS Meetup: how Craft is changing people’s lives
At Little Miss Robot, we like to do things differently. So we decided to host the first Craft CMS Meetup of 2020 at our offices!
What Fronteers 2019 taught us about UX and performance
Team Little Miss Robot visited the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam. Are you eager to find out which quick wins they learned to help optimise their UX and performance? Then you have come to the right place!
Product Design Meetup #12— Kortrijk 2018
This time we visited the city of Kortijk, recently elected as a creative city of design by Unesco and home to many talented students attending one of the multitude of design programmes in the city.
Product Design Meetup #11 — Ghent 2018
On the 26th of April we organised the 11th edition of our product design meetup, an inspiring evening filled with interesting talks and great insights.
Take your wireframes to the next level with FLOW
This is our own internal library which allows us to easily create detailed wireframes, without being too restrictive. We use this as a starting point to keep everything efficient & consistent, but they still encourage creativity and some custom work.
What we learned after playing around with ARkit for a week
When Apple announced ARKit earlier this year, the writing was on the wall that AR might be on the verge of blowing up into the mainstream. We put the software to the test to see if it is really living up to the hype.