Office walls are often underused. Perhaps you’ve hung up a few paintings or posters to add some interest, or maybe you’ve painted the walls in relaxing colors to create a better working environment.
But if you’re looking for ideas for office wall decor, go beyond making changes that simply brighten up the space and turn the walls into interactive walls instead.
In this guide, we take a closer look at some inspirational interactive wall ideas to make better use of your office walls. Use these ideas to make your walls not only inspirational but actually useful and take full advantage of the wall space available in your office.
Interactive walls are walls that can be engaged with in some way. The defining feature is that they have interactive elements, which can be physical or digital.
They might be designed to inspire, inform, or educate, or you can use them as spaces to brainstorm or collaborate.
You may see them at museums and in other public spaces, where you can touch digital screens to get information. Interactive walls at events like business fairs are also popular, where they provide guests with information in an engaging way. They are even of great use in schools for interactive presentations.
But as you’ll see, interactive walls are not limited to museums or business events, and they can work perfectly in your office too.
Let’s start by looking at some digital interactive wall ideas. You can create these by using high-quality screens on the walls, and employees can then approach, touch the screens, and interact with them in different ways.
Use your interactive walls to run polls and gather feedback. By incorporating a touch screen, you can enable employees to quickly provide their answers to questions about events, projects, and more.
Set up a digital wall to display a shared calendar that all team members can contribute to via their devices. They can add and change events, deadlines, and more in one place that everyone can find easily.
If your team is working on a project, set up an interactive office wall dedicated to it. Display timelines and project milestones, and let everyone update it to show the visual progress of the project.
Set up a digital wall displaying photos. This could focus on photos of team members, business events, team-building weekends, evenings out, and more.
Make it fun and change it up regularly, and allow your employees to add their own photos so they can get involved too.
Digital screens can be used for presentations, so you can turn an unused wall space into a presentation wall. Employees can gather around and you can control the display via your smartphone or tablet to present a recent project.
You’ve probably seen screens at public events where people share their social media posts, which then appear on the big screen. You could do something similar in your office.
Share a hashtag on Twitter, and display posts using that hashtag on the wall. Employees can then post to it so they can get involved too.
A plain wall can instantly become a meeting space with the use of digital screens. This is a good option for meeting rooms where you can meet up with remote team members directly via the screens on the wall.
Use your interactive wall to present company announcements and keep everyone up to date. This could include company achievements like recent awards, project details, news, and updates, which you can use to keep everyone informed in a visually engaging way.
Interactive walls can also be used to inspire. This is easy with digital walls, where you can set up the wall to showcase artwork, designs, inspirational quotes, and more that provide an attractive background and are good for employee morale.
Not all interactive walls are digital, and there are several ways you can convert your wall into an interactive wall without using screens.
One of the best ways to make a wall interactive is to turn it into a brainstorming wall. This could be something as simple as converting it into a large whiteboard and then providing a selection of pens and sticky notes.
It doesn’t have to be a whiteboard; you could use a blackboard and chalk instead. You could even put up a glass wall that people can draw on using special pens.
However, interactive wall activities are not limited to brainstorming. You can also use your wall for fun messages, creativity, drawings, ideas and feedback, and whatever else people want.
Maps often work well on interactive walls. You could set up a large world map and invite people to stick pins in along with notes as to the relevance of the location.
It could be where different team members live all over the world, places employees are planning to go on holiday, countries people have visited, and more.
You could then set up challenges like trying to get a pin in every country or capital city for places people have visited.
You could set one wall aside to be used for art installations. You can then encourage employees to submit a work of art to be displayed for a week or month, or you might even want to commission some artwork.
You could create collaborative art installations where employees can get involved and add their own creative touches over a few days or weeks.
Could you use any of these ideas to transform your office? The interactive wall ideas above give you a good starting point, and you can use them to convert any office wall into a space that is educational, engaging, or inspiring.
Most of these ideas are fairly simple to create, and they can have a positive effect on your employees, boost productivity, inspire creativity, assist with problem-solving, and increase employee satisfaction.
Take a look again at the ideas above and decide which of them would work best for your office. Then create your own interactive wall and make an instant improvement in your workspace - Avocor has a range of interactive display solutions to compare so you can pick out the best option for you and get started with making your office walls more engaging.
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