Skype Meeting Rooms
Meeting Rooms are an essential part of the enterprise Skype experience and tight integration was a key selling point for the service. Born from real-world pain points, this project sought to extend the reach of the previously release Surface Hub product at a more affordable price point. Being a modular system, it could accommodate anywhere from 2 - 50 users concurrently.
My Role: Senior Product Design Manager
Company: Microsoft
Meeting participants appear on a large screen in the room. They can join the call via mobile phones, laptops, a standard phone call, or other meeting rooms.
The console hardware was designed around the Surface Pro tablet. We collaborated with multiple partners including Logitech and Polycom to create unique hardware docks that customers could choose from.
One of the many convenient features was the ability to control view on the front of the screen from the console, even if someone else is sharing their screen, as in this example.