Kiss the Frog is a pioneering digital design agency based in Delft, the Netherlands, specialising in designing and developing interactive media installations that transform visitor experiences in museums, science centres, and visitor attractions worldwide.
With over two decades of industry experience, the team of designers, creative developers, and technical specialists expertly blend storytelling with cutting-edge technologies to create immersive, engaging, and entertaining exhibits.
Services
Their high-quality portfolio includes touchscreen exhibits, large multiplayer games, virtual experiences, multimedia tours, and immersive environments. Kiss the Frog uses cutting-edge technologies such as motion tracking, augmented and mixed reality, gestural interfaces, RFID, and real-time 3D simulations to deliver innovative, memorable experiences.
Design
When approaching exhibit design, the team follows a three-phase process: Debrief, Preliminary Design, and Detailed Design. This approach allows them to gain a thorough understanding of the client’s needs, generating and refining ideas to produce a concept that is ready for production.
Development
The company’s software development process is both flexible and agile. Throughout development, the team regularly reflects on progress, prioritising collaboration with the client to ensure that the design evolves in line with feedback.
Project highlights
Play Playground
Two 15,000-square-foot interactive bar experiences in the United States feature hands-on games for friendly competition and social sharing. Kiss the Frog developed the software for the attractions, handling gameplay logic, player interaction with digital sensors and a gamification system that tracks and shares all visitor scores.
The DoSeum
For the exhibition Uniquely Us: Understanding Race and Building Unity at DoSeum, children’s museum in the United States, Kiss the Frog developed seven interactive games that explore concepts of race and unity through science, storytelling, and empathy, making complex topics accessible to learners of all ages.
Eye Filmmuseum
Film Catcher is the interactive film installation at Eye Filmmuseum in the Netherlands. By searching visually, visitors discover how beautiful and diverse film can be. With more than thirty search filters, visitors conjure up ever-changing collections of images, taken from the 54,000 films in the Eye collection.
