Initial Motives
As a remote designer, prolonged isolation can leave me feeling lonely due to the lack of face-to-face interaction with colleagues and opportunities for casual conversation in the break room.
And I wonder if there is a way for me to experience a stronger sense of presence and increase interaction opportunities with my colleagues while working remotely. 🍻
Persona&Findings
We interviewed 15 ambitious young professionals who are also currently working from home.
Takeaway
Most of my respondents expressed a desire for increased interaction with colleagues and a greater sense of engagement during remote work, which most mainstream video conferencing software does not provide today.
HMW
How might we provide a more realistic experience for remote workers to collaborate and increase their interactions with each other?
Ideation
Based on the research and the design challenges presented, here are the goals I helped the user achieve:
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More Engagement
Create a more engaging and immersive teleconferencing experience for users
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Sense of presence
Enable users to feel that colleagues are around
Impact & Effort Matrix
We discussed and analyzed the functionality and difficulty of what we wanted to achieve in our minds and created this matric.
User Journey
User Testing 1.0
At first, we wanted to design a virtual space like Soma World to reduce the fatigue of telecommuting and increase interaction and immersion.
User Testing 2.0
However, after the first round of user testing, we received feedback that our interface was too fancy and lacked the feel of a video meeting platform.
I designed an online movie theatre to give people a chance to get together after work to watch movies or the World Cup, but after user testing, we received feedback that the UI didn't look like the same platform as the other interfaces
Final Designs
At long last, we've breathed life into the ultimate iteration!!