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NOVA: imagining work 10 years from now, in a one-week Design Sprint

What will the world of work look like in 10 years? That's the question my team and I asked ourselves during an intensive Design Sprint week with Icade.

Confidential work.

Mockup of the NOVA app on a smartphone: a personalized home screen showing fatigue and stress levels, the Smart Office and connected devices.
The app's home screen.
Role
Facilitator / UX/UI Designer
Duration
1 week
  • Design Sprint
  • UX Research
  • UX/UI Design
  • AI

Result

We presented Icade with a vision of tomorrow's work: a supportive AI that helps every employee combine performance and quality of life.

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The project in detail

Context

An intensive Design Sprint week with Icade, as a team. The starting question: what will work look like in 10 years?

Problem: Our interviews and reading showed that employee expectations are changing fast: they want to combine performance and quality of life. Health at work is becoming a central issue.

Key decision

So we created NOVA. It's an app that addresses these challenges with a supportive AI that guides and advises employees through their day, with recommendations based on their state and needs.

Approach

  1. A large research phase. We called target users and ran interviews. We also read studies and reports on employee health at work and on the future of work.
  2. The Dashboard: users see their stress and fatigue levels, control their environment (lighting and temperature) and manage their connected devices (watch, smart chair, phone).
  3. Services, split into three sections. Wellness: book physiotherapy sessions or rest rooms, or switch workspaces. Meals: order dishes. Leisure: join company events, such as yoga sessions or inter-company matches.
Three NOVA Dashboard screens: the user's state, the office atmosphere and adding a connected device.
The Dashboard: user state, office atmosphere, connected devices.
Grid of screens from the NOVA Services section: booking meals, wellness spaces and leisure events.
Services: meals, wellness and leisure, bookable from the app.
NOVA notification on a smartwatch: “Tension detected, your heart rate is high, take a break and remember to breathe deeply.”
On the smartwatch, NOVA suggests a break when stress builds up.

What it shows

I can turn an open question into a concrete product concept in one week. Here, AI isn't a showcase: it starts from the employee's state and suggests a useful action.

Learnings

This project taught me that AI should be designed around a specific moment in the user's day. If I can't say what it changes for them, it doesn't belong there.

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