Inspired by a design exercise, our team was tasked with seizing an opportunity: to use lessons learned from the Office product to integrate it into a Warehouse environment, creating a sister-product for a different market. We pivoted rapidly, using as many existing components as possible to create our prototype and to prove the foundation for the product could be scaled across multiple verticals.

The origins from this idea came from an aesthetic exercise I was using to understand how to more comprehensively affect the appearance of the unit.

I chose 5 ‘themes’ and crafted a MeSpace unit tailored for that theme. For example: A university. A children’s hospital. And below, a construction site (below).

Seeing an opportunity, the company owner saw this design and immediately decided it was to be built and tested, alongside the existing product.

Construction-themed aesthetic exercise that inspired the product.

The concept was to create a highly-mobile workstation to replace the hassle of paying upwards of $80,000 to build and remove a static office in a warehouse setting, as well as alleviate travel time between managers and other parts of the floor. It need to be rugged, nimble, and simple.

After visiting warehouses across the metroplex and understanding the user journey in our new context, we shortlisted essentials. Namely an increase in durability, movability, and managerial storage. New, more durable materials took place of the old acoustic panels and the interior of the unit saw a utility increase surrounding the user.

Using an old frame from an Office unit, we created the first Warehouse prototype:

Instead of levelers and casters, custom metal framing was engineered so that the unit was mobile via a pallet jack or forklift. This had many benefits, making the unit extremely mobile in spaces that had these tools available and ensuring shipping the unit was as easy as rolling it off the truck and onto the warehouse floor.

With intentional and minimal modifications, the unit was adapted to an entirely new use case and striking aesthetic.

The final unit was validated internally at our own facility, and externally at warehouses of our partners. It saw highly positive feedback and proved to be a godsend for warehouse managers who had grown accustomed to setting up shop on makeshift desks or in expensive, immobile offices in a far away corner of their facility.

The W Series unit now stands alone as its own sister-product to the MeSpace O Series.