While most videoconferencing environments are formal meeting spaces with little emphasis on team collaboration, media:scape with HD videoconferencing encourages engagement and the exchange of information among all participants. It was designed to create a simple walk-up and connectexperience to help workers engage quickly, share information seamlessly and increase productivity.

Credits: IDEO in partnership with Steelcase Design

Contact: Katie Hasse: khasse@steelcase.com

The Post-it® Z-Notes Natural Dispenser was designed with sustainability and life-cycle management in mind. It is constructed with natural raw materials only—just glass and 100 percent recycled cork, no plastics. Plus, while most dispensers on the market have a minimum of five pieces, this product has only two, making it very easy to assemble, disassemble and recycle.

Credits: 3M Design Lab & 3M Post-it® Team

Contact: Kevin Gilboe: kjgilboe@mmm.com

The SAYL chair offers a full-suspension back that is frameless. Different degrees of tension are infused directly into the injection-molded back material, giving users support where they need it and flex where they don’t. The arc of the suspension back also gives SAYL its unique shape. The elegant form easily slips into any space, giving a sense of visual lightness and transparency.

Credits: Yves Béhar, IDSA, Bret Recor, Qin Li, Naoya Edahiro, Matt Swinton and Noah Murphy- Reinhertz of fuseproject for Herman Miller Inc.

Contact: Melissa Guthrie: melissa@fuseproject.com

The Steelcase node chair is a mobile and flexible chair for classrooms that transitions from one teaching mode to the next. Node was designed in response to a changing educational environment, where classrooms and classroom furniture need to respond to a more collaborative and active learning style. With node, a classroom can switch from a lecture-based mode to a team-based mode, and back again, without interruption.

Credits: IDEO Design Team and Steelcase

Contact: Katie Clark: kclark@ideo.com