EchoUser is growing up fast. In the last 6 months we've hired 4 people in our San Francisco and Mumbai offices, taken on at least half a dozen new projects, and have
just moved in to our brand spanking office in SoMA/South Financial in San Francisco. It's all a little surreal, really, but I have to admit that it's nice to finally have a place to call home (and be sure to drop on by to see us,
suite 540, 201 Mission).
Which brings me to the challenge at hand:
What's the best way to make a new office - or even a first office - a comfortable, open place that manages to be enticing for hours of work and visiting clients, but also feels like, well...home?
My suggestion was to give everyone $100 each and ask them to bring in some object to act as design inspiration. As an example, I plan on bringing in a fire-engine red tool chest, with cool objects and UI cutouts in each drawer (hopefully
it'll look like this). We also made a office run to IKEA last week, which everyone knows is the best way to bond and/or rediscover one's hatred of IKEA.
Any thoughts/suggestions on what makes a new office work? Not work? How to keep growing up and
be happy?
