FLO Collaboration Board

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iOS App, webpage design, marketing materials, investor pitch decks and storyboards for OneFLO at the startup Spot Inc.

CLIENT

Spot Inc

YEAR

2011-2013

ROLE

UX Design, Art Direction, Copy

Project

OneFLO (later branded as FLO Collaboration Board™) was designed by Spot Inc. as a cutting-edge platform for organizing and searching cloud data across personal and social services. It integrated platforms like Gmail, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, and more, offering users a streamlined way to manage and collaborate on data through a unified interface. Targeted for iPad, the app provided real-time commenting, location sharing, and graph-based semantic data organization, making cloud-based collaboration highly efficient.

Key UX Features

  • Unified Cloud Search: Seamlessly integrates cloud services into one accessible interface.
  • Collaborative Organization: Group collaboration tools like real-time commenting and walkthroughs.
  • Optimized for Tablets: Built specifically for touch interaction and visual data management.

Focus: Spot Inc is pioneering a search and organization platform called OneFLO (later branded as FLO Collaboration Board™) designed to revolutionize how users manage their cloud data.


Product Overview: Spot provides a comprehensive solution for searching and organizing data across various personal and social cloud services. Users can seamlessly search through information from Gmail, Google Drive, Yammer, Dropbox, Evernote, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and more, all from a single interface. The platform also facilitates collaborative organization of data around topics, projects, or ideas with friends and colleagues. Specifically designed for tablets, OneFLO, the iPad app is currently available on the App Store.

Technology: The OneFLO platform integrates users’ cloud data from both personal and social contexts by representing it as semantic objects within a graph and indexing it for efficient retrieval. This indexing technology normalizes entities such as people, companies, and places across different sources. It supports advanced features like text search, graph navigation, in-file searches, and duplicate identification. Essentially functioning as a virtual filesystem for semantic metadata, OneFLO allows users to quickly locate and utilize their cloud data for collaborative purposes, regardless of the physical storage location. The platform’s collaboration features are built on real-time communication infrastructure using the industry-standard XMPP protocol, enabling instant commenting, presence updates, availability, location sharing, and live walkthroughs.


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FLO Collaboration BoardThe FLO Collaboration Board™ is designed to make group collaboration using an iPad both simple and enjoyable. With the FLO iPad app, users can interact with a pin-board to collate and privately share data from various sources such as Gmail, Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yammer, Netflix, Amazon, Pinterest, and Desktop. Real-time commenting, location sharing, and group walkthroughs facilitate efficient collaboration and task completion.

The FLO Collaboration Board™ was specifically crafted for the iPad, as it is considered the ‘ultimate’ collaboration tool. It combines visual richness, touch interaction, and instant communication, ensuring that users can share and work on the same page seamlessly.

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Status: No longer available on App Store.

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