Why People Love Neat in Their Huddle Spaces

Simon Anthony Walker, Aug 29, 2024

Our Red Dot Design Award-winning devices, Neat Bar, Neat Frame, and Neat Board 50, are ideal for huddle spaces. They provide superb audio and video quality and include pioneering features to make your Zoom or Microsoft Teams hybrid meetings the best they can be.

With Neat devices, you enter the room, and the screen immediately comes to life. Then, you’re straight into a meeting and can easily click and wirelessly share your computer screen. Everything’s smooth and simple. It’s time and money-saving, which is everything to us.

Tommy Riseborn, Team Leader DU, Swedish property management company, Familjebostäder

The days of employees being an army of individual contributors are long gone. But what does a typical collaborative modern workforce look like? The answer is often small working groups collaborating in huddle spaces. Forbes, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard Press agree that the ideal working environment is a huddle space of three to six individuals.

Unlike cramped, old-school cubicles or the new-school open office plan, huddle spaces account for the optimal working group size. The results can be impressive when small working groups gather in a well-designed huddle space with the appropriate video technology to seamlessly connect, communicate, and collaborate with their remote colleagues or others.

Deploying the right tech

A critical factor in deploying the right video technology is choosing devices that provide superb audio and picture quality, enable a swift and easy meeting start-up, and are equally simple to use, manage, and monitor. Moreover, in huddle spaces, where clutter and any unnecessary peripherals can cause distraction, eat into valuable desktop space, and invite complexity, keeping the tech to a minimum is vital for stress-free, more fluid, and flexible meetings.

Neat’s pioneering portfolio of beautifully simple, minimalistic, Nordic-designed video devices and features offers just that.

If I want to spend $1,000 on tech, the IT team is going to find something that can do the job for $100. But, when they saw Neat and looked at the cost, coupled with how easy it was to set up and manage, they saw the value too.

Wesley Harper, Director of Sales Operations, prominent US office furniture manufacturer, OFS
Leading US electronic design automation company Synopsys uses Neat Bar throughout its huddle spaces for simpler, more natural, equitable hybrid meetings.

Elegant, simple, streamlined devices

Take our Red Dot Design Award-winning flagship Neat Bar device, for example. Whether you opt for our original Neat Bar or our recently upgraded and fellow Red Dot Design Award-winning Neat Bar Generation 2, both are ideal for huddle spaces or small to medium-sized rooms. Our original Neat Bar provides all the essentials for superb video collaboration with exceptional audio and video capabilities in a simple yet elegant design. Now, at a reduced price of $2,490, the Neat Bar everyone’s come to know and love still packs a punch.

“Neat’s Pioneering Video Devices Win Six Prestigious Red Dot Awards.”

The first time we used Neat Bar, I was shocked at how clear the sound and image were. The speaker’s face was automatically detected, and their face was shown close-up [Neat Symmetry]. It was as if they were talking in front of our eyes. You feel like every meeting participant is really in front of you.

Deshimaru Ayumi, Chief of the General Affairs department, Administrative Headquarters, Japanese IT giant, TIS

Neat Bar Generation 2 takes things further. It expands on the original Neat Bar by delivering extraordinary audio and video quality for Zoom or Microsoft Teams meetings in an all-new, elegant, streamlined design. Building on our unwavering commitment to providing simple yet powerful, clutter-free video devices, Neat Bar Generation 2 equips you with enhanced, easy-to-use, cutting-edge capabilities that continue elevating people’s Neat Bar meeting experiences.

BYOD capabilities for greater choice

Better yet, with BYOD (bring your own device) capabilities, you can enjoy cross-platform functionality and leverage any app you have on your laptop with Neat Bar or Neat Bar Generation 2. You can also leverage our hardware and media stacks and enjoy all the benefits of leading-edge features like Neat Symmetry, Neat Auto-Framing, and Neat Audio, to name but a few. You can choose to use Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or BYOD-only mode.

Curious to know more about “The power of simple” in Neat Bar? Read our “Say Hello to Our Stunning Neat Bar Generation 2” blog.

Neat’s ‘beautifully simple’ slogan stood out. It was exactly what we were looking for, and I was surprised by how easy everything was. Now, we enter a room, and it just works. It’s very intuitive. There’s no faffing about with cables or anything else. You can jump directly into a meeting and stream content straight to the screen.

Calum Murray, Service Desk Analyst, UK ultra premium drinks distributor, Edrington
Leading global children’s entertainment company Spin Master’s employees use Neat Frame to meet with their hybrid teammates at many of the company’s smaller huddle-like spaces.

A beautiful way to meet

Shifting gears, our Red Dot Best of the Best award-winning, portrait-oriented, all-in-one Neat Frame touchscreen device is ideal for booths, mini huddle spaces for 1-2 people, or other areas that veer toward more personal-type spaces. At only 8.75 inches across and 4.38 inches deep, and with only a power cable, Neat Frame takes up very little room on your desk or any other surface.

I love the Frame, and I love its size. We’d like to put it on a stand in some of our office lobbies and display our company logo on the screen to welcome people.

David Dunwoody, IT Service Manager, Northern Ireland Water

Neat Frame boasts 450 nits of brightness to pick up people’s facial expressions and gestures in unparalleled detail. It also has a front-facing tweeter and woofer for a richer reproduction of people’s voices. Significantly, Neat Frame’s eye-level camera gives it the edge over your laptop’s webcam, but you can pair the two devices, freeing up your computer for other tasks. For example, you won’t have to continuously shuffle windows around and hide the person or people you’re talking to on video while referencing or trying to read content from your laptop. Juggling too many things can be jarring, we know!

A complete “frame-changer!”

Neat Frame’s 113-degree field of view and 4x zoom automatically perfectly frame and present you whether you’re sitting at your desk or moving freely around the room. Neat Frame also enables different users to quickly join a video meeting or take a phone call via Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Furthermore, its plug-in-and-play setup makes it ridiculously simple to deploy, angle, or move around, thanks to a cleverly integrated handle at the top rear of the device. All you need is power and Wi-Fi. It’s as simple as that.

Read our “Neat Frame: The Modern Work Hero” blog to discover more.

With its compact design in portrait orientation, this video conferencing device promotes a new quality of use. For video conferencing via Zoom and Microsoft Teams, it offers the experience of a natural way of communicating. It impresses with its intuitive user interface and user-friendly functionality down to the last detail. At the same time, the challenge of an optimized screen layout has been implemented convincingly and coherently.

Red Dot Design Awards Best of the Best jury statement
Neat Board 50 is a highly flexible collaboration board that provides cutting-edge capabilities while being supremely adaptive for today’s open-to-change huddle spaces.

Flexibility, creativity, and apps galore

If it’s huddle space flexibility combined with whiteboarding and the choice of applying some of today’s most popular business or creative apps you’re seeking then look no further. Our Red Dot Design Award-winning Neat Board 50 has all that and more. Neat Board 50 is a collaboration board that provides cutting-edge capabilities while being supremely adaptive for today’s open-to-change huddle spaces.

We have a very creative and innovative team, so our office needs to reflect that. How can we create a space that allows people to be as creative as possible? We needed something simple yet effective so our teams feel the creative juices flowing when they walk into a space.

Alex Witte, AV Specialist, Canadian multinational toy and entertainment company, Spin Master

Designed for the flexible future of work, Neat Board 50 swiftly adapts to you whenever, wherever, and in whatever way you need to meet or express your ideas. Wheel it around your huddle space for the optimal angle, draw it towards you, or easily move its inviting 50-inch touchscreen up or down. Neat Board 50 allows you to interact and collaborate smoothly and efficiently however you like. You can place it in a designated spot or set up an ad hoc meeting space on the fly.

Pin-sharp audio, and picture quality

Neat Board 50 provides blockbusting audio, pin-sharp picture quality, and as with Neat Bar, Neat Board, and Neat Frame, unique Neat experiences and features, such as Neat Symmetry, Neat Boundary, and Neat Audio. It empowers your hybrid workforce to revel in closer, clearer, more creative Zoom or Microsoft Teams meetings throughout your huddle spaces and beyond. For example, Neat Board 50, when mounted to its highly adaptive wheelable stand, enables you to convert any floor space throughout your office into a makeshift huddle space. In addition, its rich and immersive collaborative canvas lets you enjoy across-the-board teamwork by effortlessly responding to you in a way that feels just right.

Neat Board 50 also comes with our Red Design Award-winning Neat Active Marker, the perfect tool to share ideas or add comments or notes. Neat Active Marker delivers just the right amount of friction and immediate response to write, markup, or sketch as you naturally would, helping infuse more personality into your ideas and work. Better yet, you don’t have to pair or charge it.

Keeping your finger on the pulse

Finally, as previously touched upon, besides being able to onboard, manage, monitor, and control all your Neat devices from anywhere, as part of our Neat Pulse full-service offering, you can revel in some of today’s most popular business and creative apps. We’re talking Appspace, Robin, Miro, and more.

Neat is continuing to innovate with industry-leading, top-quality products. It’s not just giving solutions for meeting collaborations but also other situations.

Wasif Hussain, Senior Procurement Manager, innovative UAE food delivery company, Talabat

There you have it. Why struggle or get into a muddle throughout your huddle spaces when you can enjoy beautifully simple video meetings and more with Neat?

Discover Neat’s pioneering devices or see them in action in our live Virtual Demo – Neat Devices and Experiences. Surpassing that, book a demo and experience them for yourself.