CBRE - Challenge Winner 2025

Integra - An employee centered solution

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 employee’s 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 the team’s chat located on the top of the page.

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 tasks, their points, and ability to assign a task to them.

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 what they had and what they lacked, forming a large but concise analysis.

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 what they had and what they lacked, forming a large but concise analysis.

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 encourages engagement, and mental health awareness in the workplace. It was a great experience of fast research, designing, and presenting. Thankful for my teammates Dung & Ajith for being amazing and working hard! Looking forward to doing another challenge.