CBRE \u00b7 CHALLENGE WINNER 2025
Integra - An employee centered solution
Timeline
24 Hours
Role
Product Designer
With
Dung Nguyen
Ajith Anand
Skills
Product Design
Product Research
Prototyping
OVERVIEW
Reimagining the workplace environment for CBRE
As a team of 3 designers, our goal was to research and design a product within 24 hours.
Product Strategy
Researching and thinking broadly of current solutions and user sentiment.
Prototyping
Narrowing down with ideation and rapidly designing.
Presenting
Gathering our research, final demo, and present our solution.
COMPANY TRACK
Designing a digital employee centered product
“Design and present a digital product or experience that reimagines the workplace environment for employees. This may include ways to combat employee burnout, disengagement, wellbeing, and lack of connection in a hybrid/remote work environment.”
SOLUTION
Integra: a web application where teams can connect, collaborate, and prevent burnout together
A computer application that helps managers monitor and support employee wellbeing through data-driven insights, gamified productivity, and a virtual workplace.
CORE FLOWS
Home Page
The manager's POV where it displays employee's point ranking, overall team's weekly progress, and employees in distress and options to help them.
Virtual Room
Remote teams can log in their virtualized office allowing them to quickly DM or Voice-Chat interaction between each other, redeem points to customize personal office space, and see coworker availability in real time.
Analytics for Team Manager
Managers can log in and be informed of the current status of their office such as the General Task Timeline and specific team stats, and specific employee current wellbeing.
RESEARCH
Using a Bifocal Analysis Method
We gathered various different companies that provided corporate products and wellness activities from a range of High-Engagement to Low-Engagement and from Autonomous to Leader-Driven.
Once visualized, we decided to go for a solution that has a medium to low-engagement and is more leader driven. With a more narrowed focus point, we aimed to create an application from a Managers POV.
Current solutions and what they lacked
We decided to create a chart that listed out a set of features with a set of current products that also provided solutions within the same category. We researched their strengths and weaknesses to identify gaps we could address.
User Journey & Sentiment
We decided to create a chart that listed out a set of features with a set of current products that also provided solutions within the same category. We researched how employees feel throughout their workday to identify key intervention points.
Early Explorations
As a team we brainstormed the main set of features and the possible layouts the product could have.
REFLECTION
Final Thoughts & Looking Forward
Throughout the design-a-thon my team and I learned how to blend social interaction, performance tracking, and wellbeing support into a digital experience that empowers both employees and managers.
