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Get creative with a floorplan
Workplace software offers a lot of freedom when it comes to grouping locations to allow users to identify zones or neighborhoods, see Mapping neighborhoods on floorplans; yet this is most often used to indicate to which space group meeting rooms and workplaces belong to. In other words, this feature can be used to indicate which meeting rooms are close to a coffee machine, but would not highlight the coffee machine location(s).
Over time, Spacewell created hundreds of 2D and 3D floorplans for many buildings all around the world. Often customers want to be able to quickly recognize a point of interest, or indicate specific fixed regions on the picture.
Remember that there are already a lot of colors on a live floor plan:
the data representation is very colorful, with default colors
green for unoccupied/not reserved
red for occupied/reserved
yellow for reserved-but-not-occupied
the mapped neighborhoods or zones will have their own color coding
What is asked most often?
Visualize points of interest (elevators, toilets etc) through icons
Indicate specific fixed neighborhoods (for example by coloring the “carpet” per department)
Indicate informal areas or breakout areas by using specific furniture
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