ABOVE HOME WORK NEWS SERVICES ABOUT JOIN CONTACT EVOKO — ROOM BOOKING & BEYOND Simplifying the meeting experience in the modern workspace. Visit Evoko’s website here → Designing new tools for meeting room management. Evoko is turning the world of meetings into a convenient and delightful experience, giving users a range of tools for video conferencing, wayfinding, and mobile room booking. We helped Evoke create Naso, a device for the modern workspace that helps you book, manage and guide you to the right meeting room. Above worked on a whole spectrum of services from hardware and backend development to production. The Challenge Irrespective of the size of a company, we all experience the same pain points in the modern workspace: finding and booking meeting rooms. Particularly for larger companies, keeping track of meetings and room availability with dated methods is only time-consuming and aggravating. Evoko saw the much-needed demand for a completely new system for workplace meeting room communication. For this, Evoko reached out to Above to help them create Evoko Naso. With Evoko Naso, we challenged ourselves to turn a daunting, tedious user experience into a delightful one. Above helped the Evoko team realize their concept to create a holistic, intuitive, and dynamic solution within the workspace. Our Approach Staying true to our process, which underwent several iterations, we designed, prototyped, and sourced materials to develop an integrated and holistic room booking device that caters to dynamic user scenarios and the office environment. This required a genuine cross-collaborative effort with external partners, UX and visual designers, as well as mechanical engineers, and our development team. The key to a seamless interaction experience was our “across the board” approach, to executing a fully integrated product from the inside out, from creating a custom PCB and backend to screen interactions. Outcome An approachable, dynamic solution Evoko Naso is a physical device with a digital interface. It is placed outside meeting rooms to help users to easily assess and book rooms. Glanceable room states create a more streamlined conferencing flow in the workplace, preventing double-bookings, ghost meetings, and enabling users to snatch a room for spontaneous, unplanned meetings as well. The interface behaves dynamically and the more the user engages with the device, the more information the device reveals: From afar, users can assess current room availabilities to find a suitable room; approaching the device reveals the day’s meetings. Make a booking right on the device, with only a few taps. Installation on any surface, walls or glass windows is a breeze. Versatile: connect it wirelessly or wire and power it via an AC adapter or directly via the network cable. What’s behind the surface and the heart of the operation is a custom mainboard, which includes a system capable of running Android, communication peripherals, environment sensors, and the LEDs for the halo frame. A custom stripped-down Android system optimized for the device allows for easy development of the user interface application. About Evoko Evoko are Swedish, design-driven innovators dedicated to making professional gatherings smoother, more cost-efficient and stylish. They aspire to give you the perfect setup for magnificent meetings. The rest is up to you. Visit Evoko here. Capabilities Project Management Retail Packaging Mechanical Design Supply Chain Management Certification Management Mechanical Design User Experience Design Visual / User Interface Design Electronics Design Firmware Development Industrialization Factory Software Design Stockholm Smedjegatan 2c 131 54 Nacka Sweden Malmö Grimsbygatan 24 211 20 Malmö Sweden San Francisco 600 California Street CA 94108 San Francisco USA Shenzhen 3031 Shennan Ave 518000 Shenzhen China Company Info Above is a Scandinavian innovation agency driving positive change through a seamless fusion of strategy, design and tech. Our team helps some of the boldest people and companies in the world to unfold tomorrow via agency services offered on a global market, with primary studios in Stockholm and Malmö in Sweden and satellites in Shenzhen in China and San Francisco in the US. Above is a team of 80+ creatives and was founded 2017 in the merger of the design agency Howl and tech agency Frankly. Newsletter Sign up to keep in the loop of news and inspirational goodies. SIGN UP We respect your privacy. extended family﻿ inside.above.se privacy policy