Commercial Building Development Platform
Proof of Concept Design For An IoT Startup
An independent consultant in the commercial development industry patented an idea that projected to solve unsustainable building practices that exist today during the Design, Construction, and Operations of commercial buildings.
The founder had the vision for the solution and wanted to design a viable product around his idea.
How do we go from an IoT concept to a successful product design?
We analyzed the 24 subject matter experts across all three stages of the commercial building development lifecycle. Through primary (ethnographic) and secondary research, we learned that if we could solve pains within the Operations stage of the lifecycle, that would allow us to ultimately solve for other building development stages in the future.
Our goal was to create a minimally viable and desirable product that would address pains for facility departments within building Operations. Collecting data from iterative discovery efforts, the maturity of the product would eventually evolve to meet the needs for further users within the other two stages of building development lifecycle (Design and Construction).
We co-collaborated with our cross-disciplinary teams to conduct research, create insights including user profiles, journey maps, and visionary product requirements. The deliverable for this phase of innovation was a proof of concept wireframe to concept test with early adopters, and use those insights to further develop the product concept.
