Where and why do analog and digital materials differ fundamentally? And what does our Armadillo Outdoor Office desk have to do with it? Analog and digital material in human-centered design processes.

How can UX and agile product development come together more effectively through user stories and thus create better products? Thomas Immich addressed this question in a keynote at MaibornWolff on July 8 entitled “Getting User Stories Right”. The Armadillo Desk, our specially developed outdoor office desk, was used as an example in the presentation.

Our Armadillo OutdoorOffice concept is still in an early stage… or as we would say in UX Professional Lingo: it is still in the product discovery phase. In this phase, we want to use different prototypes and product variants to gradually find out which solutions for open air work really work and which do not.

We’ve all been working from home for a year now. But after a year in the home office, we’ve noticed that we’re missing something crucial: human interaction. The creative, colorful activity in a shared place. So we set out to find a solution.