Office usability

An indoor decoration vision and code of conduct for office spaces - brought to you by the densest minds on earth

Our profound experience within usability inspires us to present a concept focused on providing a truly creative work environment with high utility and excellent usability. We present our concept through the 10 heuristics by Jakob Nielsen:

Visibility of system status

The room should have active luminous decorations, always showing the users how they have failed with any given task.

Match between system and the real world

The room should include a floor, a ceiling and three to four walls, in order to emphasize recognition of a room, so that the user doesn’t feel the urge to constantly evaluate whether he or she is in a room or not. Doors should also be present all times, meaning that they shouldn’t be removed once the user has entered the room (however, religious and sacrilegious festivities which include door relocation are excluded).

User control and freedom

All desks are equipped with emergency ejection seats to support undo and redo, making it easier for the employer to replace any employee by undoing the employment. The seats are also coated by non-stick Teflon, to make sure that slow working employees won’t get stuck in the furniture.

Consistency and standards

To avoid misunderstandings, the preferred language of communication should always be French. Since almost nobody in the team knows the language, the learning curve is equally steep for everybody.

Error prevention

In order to prevent errors, all decisions will be routed through the team manager. Exceptions include meals and volcano eruptions. Toilet breaks are negotiated separately.

Recognition rather than recall

To ease the cognitive load for the employees, all tasks will be prepared by managers, who will provide a picture-supported step-by-step guide for each requested task.

Flexibility and efficiency of use

Frequent actions will be recorded in a macro-like manner, so that tasks can be carried out without any employee making an effort. By doing this, the employee merely needs to start the video playback and wait for the task to be replayed. This can also be executed from home, which extends the grade of flexibility and prevents social awkwardness.

Aesthetic and minimalist design

All unnecessary communication and information will be carefully and cleverly hidden from the authorities, minimizing the presented information. Also, the dense minds of the employees contribute to keeping things smooth and simple.

Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

In order to avoid unnecessary cleaning, walls should be painted white with brown and beige spatter. Corners should be slightly darker than the rest of the room. This way, users easily can relate to the quality of their work. At the same time this guideline also eases the impact and shame of the outcome from the error prevention guideline above, where the toilet breaks are specified.

Help and documentation

A full disclaimer of the manager’s rights and privileges will be publically announced every year at noon, along with a following confession.