How do you eat an elephant?
What has the design of a Microsoft Teams Room got to do with elephant sandwiches?! Well here’s how…
It came up during my presentation on designing Large Signature Rooms here at Microsoft’s Redmond site with Michel Bouman and Jimmy Vaughan at last week’s #ConvergedCommunicationsBootcamp.
How do you eat an elephant? One sandwich at a time! (Vegan options also available.)
At Greg Jeffreys Consulting Ltd we use the heuristic of breaking room design into its granular elements, using the acronym EASE.
E for Environment - the room itself, its shape, lighting, acoustics, colour, finishes etc.
A for Audio. As much as it pains a displays and all things visual guy to say it, if the video goes down it’s a problem, but if the audio goes down, its a disaster.
S for Screen, the displays. There are over ten specification calls to consider.
E for Equity. Not just for the people in the room but the remote participants too. The in-room design is just half the picture - how to optimise how it self-presents to remote participants is mission critical.
Obviously it’s more complex than this, which is what we do, but the EASE principle is a great kick-off point.
Oh yes, the sandwich. I rather startled my friends with that dad-joke, but I just loved what Mehryn Corrigan and her good friend Copilot came up with in a visual!
Posted: 27th June 2024