product design

July 16, 2018

COLLABORATION

Why We’re Redesigning the Webex Teams User Experience

As my colleague Damien McCoy wrote recently, Webex Teams is much more than just a rebranded Cisco Spark app. If you used the product for a while, you’ll be the first to agree. We’re revamping the user experience. Colors are changing. Layouts are different. Tools streamlined. And more features are co…

July 10, 2017

COLLABORATION

Meet the Design Group: Building a Design Ecosystem

Last week, our industrial design team traveled to Essen, Germany to receive one of the greatest honors in the international design community: the Red Dot award. It would be a great honor to receive one award. Instead, Red Dot awarded us with four. We received awards for Cisco Spark Room Kit, Cisco S…

March 15, 2017

COLLABORATION

“Scandifornian” Design at SXSW: Q&A with Torkel Mellingen

I was just in Austin, Texas, at SXSW. While there, I spoke at Cisco Spark Haus about the Cisco design language – and how magic happens when California meets Norway. I’m often asked about our approach, so I thought I’d share some of my Texas conversation. The baseline question I get is: What do…