One team across disciplines, so nothing gets handed off at the seam.
The Dot Space is a design and development studio in the Netherlands. We work across software, hardware, and industrial design, usually on projects that need more than one of them at once.
We've worked across the Gulf, the Levant, Eastern Europe and the Netherlands, in events, logistics, utilities, publishing and legal services. The work takes a few recurring shapes: operating layers for organisations running many things at once, platforms for events and the people who attend them, software that tracks vehicles and deliveries, interfaces for infrastructure that has to be read in real time, and frontend engineering inside high-traffic systems. Where the problem is physical, it goes to CAD, prototyping and mechanism design. Where the problem is that there is no engineering function yet, we stand one up: roles, standards, hiring, and interim leadership until a permanent lead is ready.
Most studios stop at a boundary. The software agency stops where the hardware starts; the design consultancy stops where manufacturing starts. We don't have that seam, which is usually why a project ends up with us. Everything starts from a single dot: a pixel, a coordinate, a node on a board. Everything we deliver grows out of that point.
Disciplines
Software Engineering
Customer-facing platforms, internal tools, mobile apps, and the APIs between them
Industrial Design
Product design, CAD modeling, physical prototyping
Hardware & IoT
Circuit design, sensor integration, embedded computing
CAD & 3D Printing
Parametric modeling, FDM/SLA printing, iterative prototyping
Products
Productised platforms clients license rather than commission
Design
UI/UX, motion, brand systems, visual identity
How we work
Precision over speed
We'd rather ship one thing properly than three things that need fixing.
Cross-disciplinary by default
The best solutions come from thinking across software, hardware, and design simultaneously.
No black boxes
You own everything we build. Clear documentation, clean handoffs, no vendor lock-in.
Direct collaboration
No account managers or layers. You work directly with the people building your project.