low light
Edition 2027
Admit one
One night on interface craft.
- Date
- 19 Mar 2027
- Doors
- 21:30
- Tier
- Late pass
- Seat
- Balcony
- Holder
- Your name here
- Venue
- Wolfraamhal
Gate
K
€39
LL27-LA-79ZG
Friday 19 March 2027, Wolfraamhal, Rotterdam
Doors 18:30, bar till 01:00
Interface craft,after dark.
Seven talks and a workshop on the details nobody asks for: shadows, small type, the 100 ms after a tap. 340 seats in an old filament factory on the Maas, and a free stream for everyone else.
On stage: Ines Morales, Kenji Aoyama, Priya Raman, Aleksander Nowak, Amara Okoye, Lotte Verbeek and Samir Haddad. Hosted by Joris van Damme.
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340 seats went in six days.
Plans change. Every returned floor seat goes to the next number in line, and you get 24 hours to claim it before it moves on. Take a number and we'll write when it's called.
- seats handed back so far
- 63
- seats handed back so far
- to claim yours when it's called
- 24 h
- to claim yours when it's called
- places for each friend who joins
- +10
- places for each friend who joins
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1,184 people in line right now
One email when your number's called. Numbers are never sold or swapped.
Seven people who care about the last two percent.
No keynotes and no sponsors on stage. Each talk is 25 minutes about one thing they shipped, then five for questions, which come in on cards.
- Shadows that behave · 19:30Design engineer, Halyard · Lisbon
Ines Morales
- Type at four pixels · 20:00Type designer, Kasumi Type · Osaka
Kenji Aoyama
- Easing curves by ear · workshop, 20:30Motion lead, Orrery · London
Priya Raman
- The 100 ms budget · 21:00Performance engineer, Railyard · Kraków
Aleksander Nowak
- Designing for one hand · 21:30Product designer, Tramline · Lagos
Amara Okoye
- Colour in the dark · 22:00Colour scientist, Studio Grauw · Rotterdam
Lotte Verbeek
- Motion you don't notice · 22:30Interaction designer, Fieldwork · Montréal
Samir Haddad
Hosted by Joris van Damme, who opens at 19:15 with “Why we keep the lights low” and chairs the panel at 23:00.
The running order.
Friday 19 March 2027, Rotterdam time. Talks run 25 minutes with five for questions. The main hall is streamed; the Cellar isn't, so get there early.
The line lights up as the night runs.
11 sessions shown
- Later: Foyer, doors
Doors, coats and badges
Badges at Gate K. The bar opens with the doors. - Later: Main hall
Why we keep the lights low
Joris van Damme · Host, Low LightFifteen minutes on the house rules: no slides over 40 words, no pitches, questions on cards. - Later: Main hall
Shadows that behave
Ines Morales · Design engineer, HalyardHow Halyard rebuilt elevation with two shadows instead of eleven, and why the dark theme came out better for it. - Later: Main hall
Type at four pixels
Kenji Aoyama · Type designer, Kasumi TypeHinting, optical sizes and the 11 px table label that took a month to get right. - Later: Foyer, break
Interval and late kitchen
Bao, dal, and a cheese toastie people still write to us about. - Later: Cellar, workshop, 30 seats
Easing curves by ear
Priya Raman · Motion lead, OrreryBring a laptop. 30 seats, first come. Twelve transitions, tuned until nobody notices them. - Later: Main hall
The 100 ms budget
Aleksander Nowak · Performance engineer, RailyardWhere the time goes between a tap and a response, measured on a four-year-old Android. - Later: Main hall
Designing for one hand
Amara Okoye · Product designer, TramlineTramline's ticket flow, redesigned for a commuter holding a coffee and a strap. Late passes come in. - Later: Main hall
Colour in the dark
Lotte Verbeek · Colour scientist, Studio GrauwWhy your accent looks louder at night, and the four contrast checks that catch it. - Later: Main hall
Motion you don't notice
Samir Haddad · Interaction designer, FieldworkFieldwork cut every animation over 250 ms for a month. Here's what people missed and what they didn't. - Later: Main hall, panel
What we'd delete
Every speaker, one feature they'd remove from their own product. The stream ends at 23:45; the bar runs till 01:00.
An old filament factory on the Maas.
The Wolfraamhal made light bulbs until 1971. The hall still has its gantry cranes and a north-light roof, and after dark it's the best room in Rotterdam for looking at a screen.
WolfraamhalWolfraamkade 4, 3072 AN Rotterdam- Step-free from the quay, with a lift to the balcony
- Live captions on the screen and on the stream
- A quiet room upstairs, lights genuinely low
- Coat check is free; the cloakroom closes at 01:15
Getting there
- 9 minby metroLines D or E from Rotterdam Centraal to Rijnhaven, then six minutes on foot over the Rijnhavenbrug.
- 4 minby water taxiFrom the Erasmusbrug pier to Katendrecht. Runs until 01:00; we'll have two on standby after the panel.
- 140 racksby bikeCovered racks on the quay. The OV-fiets rental at Centraal is a twelve-minute ride away.
- 26 minfrom SchipholIntercity direct to Rotterdam Centraal every ten minutes, then the metro.
Staying over? We hold 60 rooms at Hotel Nachtwacht on the Deliplein, four minutes from the door: €119 a night with the code LOWLIGHT27 until 1 March.
Admit one, after dark.
Show the code at Gate K. Name changes are free until 12 March.
Before you ask.
Something we missed? Two of us answer the inbox, usually the same evening.
hello@lowlight.eventsEvery talk goes out live with captions, free, no sign-up. The workshop in the Cellar isn't filmed; the replay of everything else lands the week after.