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News and insights on all things design by Round Bytes
Why we stopped calling ourselves "just an agency"
Round Bytes is a creative and software house. Here's what that actually means for the brands we work with, and why the distinction matters.
The 3-week rule: how we scope an MVP that actually ships
Most MVPs don't ship because they were never scoped honestly. Here's the 3-week rule we use at Round Bytes to cut the noise.
Designing for three languages from day one
Building a product that works in English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Mandarin isn't a localization problem, it's a design problem. Here's how we approach it.
What five years of client work taught us about retainers
After 5+ years of agency work across Indonesia and Taiwan, here's what we've learned about when retainers make sense, and when they don't.
Why we build our own products (and what that means for clients)
Round Bytes builds agency work and its own products. Here's why that combination makes us better at both, and what it means for the brands we partner with.
The avoidance problem: why most people don't open their finance app
Most personal finance apps fail because of one thing, people don't open them. Tucope is built around that observation. Here's the story.
