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The interior design studio and high-quality construction company, Coblonal, has incorporated a 75 ”Clevertouch interactive monitor into its showroom and meeting room, to enhance its project presentations in a more dynamic way and better convey the message in highly complex jobs.

With 24 years of experience in the residential and commercial sector, Coblonal is characterized by uniqueness and quality, to devise and execute each of its designs. In February 2019, the firm moved to a new space, much more spacious and central, in Plaza Tetuán in Barcelona. A home-office, designed as an office with the soul of an open-space home, with different work areas for the team and the reception of visits from clients and collaborators.

Under the mezzanine there is a high table with very special functions. It is an area designed to imagine and show the spaces they project. In it they meet, share plans and visualizations of the project with the team, collaborators and clients, review samples and make compositions of finishes. Over time, it has become the ideal space to present the project to clients. A multifunctional and multipurpose space where they have recently installed the 75 "Clevertouch UX PRO interactive monitor with advice from the AV installer PymeTech Adviser and Charmex .

“We use the Clevertouch screen to show clients project details, add comments and modifications on the spot. He is available to the entire team for their meetings, with collaborators and with clients, the latter being the priority ”, comments Joan Llongueras, owner partner and creative director of Coblonal.

For the study, each project is unique, because each client is different and, although certain common elements can be identified in their projects, each one is adapted to the ways of living and acting of its inhabitants or users. Although they were already using iPads for this purpose, the Clevertouch monitor "offered us the opportunity to do so in unbeatable conditions and for a group of more than two people, as is usual in our case," says Joan Llongueras.

And it is that, the UX PRO range of Clevertouch , designed for professional environments, provides a more fluid writing thanks to the patented technology of Super Glide Touch. Something important to draw or write freehand. It's as simple as writing on a conventional whiteboard, with no lag. With the ability to differentiate between palm erase, finger writing, and pen writing, there's no need to change settings in the middle of the flow.

“We highlight the dynamism and interactivity by allowing us to make modifications and annotations at the moment to the plan and to contrast it with clients and collaborators. On the other hand, the images and renderings are displayed in unbeatable conditions, which facilitates their presentation since they do not need to be printed. Lluís Sala, from PymeTech, offered us all the necessary advice to get started, the rest is learned alone. Its use is very intuitive ”, highlights Llongueras.

After training, in the studio they can give even more dynamism to their meetings, where they talk about highly complex work, with plans and renders. The monitor includes the LYNX 7 Whiteboard software, Cloud. This program has a touch interface and all the tools at your fingertips.

Their large selection of pens is for attractive scoring in your presentations. Rainbow pen, fountain pen, letter recognition, shape recognition, even a pen that simulates a laser pointer. Pressure and speed help decide the thickness of the line as the user writes on the pen display, just like with a real pen.

Another very useful function is to search for Internet content directly from the LYNX Whiteboard, without having to leave the software, and to be able to import them into presentations or plans. Thus, the client or supplier can both get involved in the modifications of the proposal, as well as get a more visual idea.

Collaborators, for example in the middle of a customer show, select from Bing Images, YouTube videos, GIFs. When the desired content is selected, they simply drag and drop it onto the layout or sheet. Or if you prefer, you can search Google through the browser panel, which allows you to open web pages from the LYNX Board itself. To do this, simply type in the address bar or in the search box and it takes you to the desired destination.

With the browser's configuration menu, screenshots of a web page are made and then pasted on the digital canvas. Together with this, LYNX Slate has a functionality where several separate layers are managed, very useful for professionals who work with plans and are used to using programs such as Autocad or Photoshop. It is as simple as importing the file and "moving it to the background", to the back layer, to start making annotations without altering the plan or sketch. Afterwards, the notes can be passed to the back layer and so everything is in the same file.

“Before we used a large television as a computer monitor. It was located next to the entrance of the study and exposed to passersby, so it could not always be used, depending on the type of information to be processed ”, he explains.

Although at the beginning the installation of the interactive monitor was thought to be used only for the customer, they have also incorporated it for meetings with suppliers and collaborators where representatives of the project, budget and construction team meet. Sometimes even for video conferencing when at least two members of your team are involved.

And another use is that of internal training where they share content or information relevant to the team. Internally, the LYNX Whiteboard software is very useful because it is cloud and cross-platform, to collaborate. Therefore, everyone can have the notes and after the meeting enter from home on their device.

As the owner partner and creative director comments, in the future they would like to “incorporate the possibility that our clients can enjoy a virtual tour of their new home in 3d and go one step beyond 2d plans and static images in 3d. We believe that the Clevertouch monitor can be the ideal support ”.