Annelie Näs

For those who don’t now this, my office environment is primarily virtual. We have a few meetings in the office every week, and we meet in person with all our local clients. But other than that, most of my time is spend from wherever I happened to be at the moment.

I love working like this, because it’s very flexible and I think that it’s more fun to work like this since many offices are so “grey.” If they weren’t, perhaps I would like that better. Anyway, using cloud computing tools and services such at Google docs, make a virtual environment very easy to work in. We share documents that we are developing together and I can instantly reach any of my co-workers by IM or Skype.

I think that we are communicating even more than if we would be in the office behind close door all the time. At least I feel weird about sending an IM to someone behind the next-door, and even more uncomfortable about the idea to open the closed door. While an IM to the other corner of the city is never weird!

This week, however, I have realised that there is one piece in our office environment that is missing. A good, quick share, visual design tool. We have been working with updating our website during the week, which has been a bit of a struggle with out a tool to show what we are thinking with the changes. You know the saying “A picture says more than a 1000 words.”

Even though we quite often work with developing visual identity we don’t have a tool where we, during a conference call, can easily draw a picture about what we are thinking, while we are talking.

I know that with Skype, you can share the screen and use whatever tool you have on your computer, but these tools are either to basic, or too advanced. Thus, we don’t have tool with an “intermediate” level of tools to quickly “paint the picture.”

Knowing today’s technology, I am sure there are a many great tools out there. So that is why I need your help to share what you are using to solve this issue?

Since we can use shared screen on Skype you don’t even have to work in a virtual office to help me with this.

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