Design insights

This global pandemic COVID19 will change the way people live work, spend time in offices, restaurants, shopping malls, and the like, not just for the next 12–18 months, but beyond. As India works on restarting public life after weeks of lockdown, we as designers are working on ideas to make spaces more usable and safer keeping in mind the new “normal” post-lockdown. In our last article, https://medium.com/@info_20630/how-offices-need-to-be-post-covid19-lockdown-220d0ca13cc9, we spoke about how to relook at your workspaces to avoid overcrowding and maintaining social distance. Here we emphasize wherever possible use of automation and touch-less technology for your offices, to limit the touchpoints...

If you are ready to join the office from next week, you need to first be sure if your office is ready with a plan in place for physical distancing. Do we look at short term changes vs adapting this as a long-term change? Can we create a generous 6’ physical distance & still create a company environment people want to be in. If we do this correctly now, we will retrain better and make it habitual for the users. Before the global pandemic, we saw a shift in the design of office spaces from traditional to people-centric, collaborative, and...

In Urban India we have the growing, aspiring middle class, hungry for education or willing to move cities for the right job. Parents are willing to go that extra mile to make their children comfortable away from home. Their expectation is to have a clean, tidy, elegant and most importantly a secure accommodation at an affordable price for rent, in a well appointed, central location- very different from the mass-PG accommodations put together by traditional landlords. The number of students and bachelors studying and working away from their hometowns is vast and growing- this multi-billion dollar opportunity is now finding...

With evolving lifestyles, limited time to cook and availability of choices at all price-points, people are dining out more and more.  Restaurants are competing to attract patrons and they now have become outlets for some of the most creative interiors in the world. Designers have brought together technology, art, various styles (like rustic, chic, etc), to create spaces for diners to escape to. Opening a restaurant is a major event that calls for great deal of investment in financial and human terms combined with attention to the minutest details. Restaurant furniture occupies an important place in creating an identity and...