The concept explores the idea of having an app that should help newcomers, especially those in big companies, to get knowing company faster, which includes its employees and office equipment
Some companies have their internal tools for various needs: from accounting to performance management. However, is there any onboarding apps for newcomers, especially in companies that have huge offices and a tremendous amount of employees? This concept was created to explore ideas of how such a product may look like. It is based on image recognition and AR technologies, but in its core, it is just a fancy database.
Each employee has a profile that includes various type of information. This includes general info, projects involvement, years in the company, top skills etc. Having all the needed data, anyone could easily find the right person who can answer questions related to project, technologies, processes and company in general. Besides, it helps to avoid any awkward situations when someone forgot other’s name: just take out your device and it will recognise an employee, as well as provide you all the needed details about this person
In addition to helping you in recognising your co-workers, the app also shows one's a current position in the office (it may be a handy feature in huge offices of Facebook or Google), as well as allows to create a path to a particular meeting room, as a typical navigator.
Another interesting feature is the office equipment guides. When someone is new to a particular type of appliances it could be challenging to understand how it works. For example, a coffee machine could require knowledge of some tips and tricks to get your macchiato done well. A newbie doesn't know them, but what if there is an app that could help with this? With image recognition technologies, it will be possible to get information on a particular office item and get all information needed, including video-guide, reviews from other employees and, most importantly, AR-guide, that should highlight all the main parts of the particular equipment.