Hexabot

Designflows is an annual product design competition by Bending Spoons, open to designers across Europe.

The 2025 challenge: design a mobile app for managing Hexabots — autonomous robots helping people live and work in a lunar colony.

Brief released Feb 14. Deadline Feb 18. Around 30 hours of actual work.

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Invited to participate by Bending Spoons.

https://designflows.it/

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Design Approach

The brief presented three constraints that needed real answers.

• Spacesuit usability — The interface had to work with gloves on and a visor in the way. Large touch targets, high contrast, and minimal steps throughout.
• Urgent by default — 65% of tasks are urgent. Task creation became a 3-step bottom sheet, built to dispatch a Hexabot in under a minute.
• Two users, one app — Researchers and families have completely different needs. Instead of two separate interfaces, I introduced a dual-account system — switching contexts like a work and personal profile.