As technology makes it easier to communicate from anywhere, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: communication and connection are not the same thing.
In a recent Officeinsight article, “Crafting Human Connection Through Shared Experience,” Yong In explores how the spaces and experiences we design can create stronger connection, belonging, and shared identity. Drawing on everything from Chicago Design Week to the World Cup and the changing role of the workplace, she argues that the most meaningful environments are not simply designed around where people gather, but why they come together in the first place.
It’s a theme that resonates deeply with what we’re building at Noro.
Yong also shares her experience using a Noro Portal - what it was like to stand eye-to-eye with someone in another city, read their full body language, and collaborate together across distance. Her takeaway captures an idea at the heart of Noro:
“Presence is more than just physically being in the same room.”
We believe the future of work will depend not simply on moving information faster, but on helping people feel present, collaborate naturally, build trust, and create meaningful shared experiences, even when they are thousands of miles apart.
Yong’s article takes that idea much further, looking at what human connection means for workplace design, communities, and the spaces we create.
Read her article “Crafting Human Connection Through Shared Experience” on officeinsight