The challenge

For Iotspot 3.0, the 3D office floor plans and the underlying data had to come together. Until then they had been two separate features, and joining them into one clear interface was a serious design challenge.

A floor plan shows where something is; the data shows how it is used. As long as the two stood apart, employees had to make the connection themselves — exactly the work you expect an app to take over.

The approach

It took some twenty iterations and a month of testing and validation to get it right.

The app also got a completely renewed visual experience: a more modern interface, improved 3D floor plans, smoother interactions when booking spaces, shorter loading times and a feature for sending reports straight from the app to the support system.

The result

Iotspot 3.0 changed the app fundamentally: one interface where floor plan, data and bookings come together, with a noticeably smoother user experience.

That it took some twenty iterations and a month of testing says most about the kind of problem it was. Bringing floor plan and data together only succeeded once employees no longer had to make the connection themselves.

That way the platform supports exactly what it is meant for: organisations making the move to flexible, hybrid working, who need to tie people, spaces and data together to do it.