Work | Scott Mackay • Principal Design Technologist

Introduction

FacilityTEAM was a cloud based application for facility and maintenance management teams. It was a start-up company comprised of three others and myself from our previous company with 15-20 years' experience in facilities management software.

Our goal was to re-invent how facilities management was done focusing more on process management and team communication.

*Disclaimer
What was cool in 2013 is not neccessarily cool by todays standards and I am having to dig deep into my archives to locate samples.

The Problem

How do you take years of development and knowledge and build a new product with new technologies and get it to market as quickly as possible?

The previous Windows based software that we all worked on had 16 modules from space management, asset management, work orders, preventative maintenance, leasing etc..

To The Phones (a.k.a Skype)

FacilityTEAM was 100% remote and for the first few weeks, maybe months we spent a lot of time coming up with ideas and researching technology. The company name wasn't even set in stone for several months. After we had our key features and some designs laid out we located a company that specialized in rapid development to get us going.

Key Features

Multi-client database
Client branding
On-boarding admin tools
Form designer
Report designer
AutoCAD integration
User specific modules (forms and reports)
Communication tools

Dashboard Design

The Dashboard went through many alterations as we developed and determined what the user should be presented with after logging in. It initially started with a tile based design showing what you had access to. Once we developed the task based system and messaging those became more of the focus. This allowed the user to see what had been assigned to them so they could perform their daily tasks.

Scrolling/swiping to the right would then display the user's specific modules. Clicking on a top level module would then display the forms and reports tied to that module.