ParkHere builds smart parking management for organisations. ParkHere Corporate helps employees find a free space in their company garage, and surfaces reliable information on available EV charging points where they exist.
The work ran from concept through to the shipped iOS and Android apps.
Lead Design
Brand identity
Mobile product design
iOS & Android app
Most companies run their office garage on first come first served. You drive in, circle the levels, and find out whether you have a space only after you have already made the trip. On a bad morning that is fifteen minutes of driving in circles followed by a hunt for street parking and a late start. It lands on every employee who drives, and it reaches the facilities team as a steady stream of complaints they have no real way to answer.
Underneath the frustration is a distribution problem. A garage is not a flat pool of identical spaces. Some employees have priority for a spot, senior staff often have a space assigned to them by name, and the rest compete for what is left. ParkHere's own measurements put a typical garage at around 80% occupancy while people were still being turned away, and the gap was largely dedicated spaces sitting empty because their owner was on holiday, off sick, or working from home. The building was full and had room at the same time, and nobody could see it.
The goal was to close that gap: get closer to full use of the garage, with more people getting a space, without taking anyone's spot away from them.
We designed the app around the rules a garage actually runs on rather than a simple calendar. A booking has to respect who has priority, which spaces are assigned to a named person, and which are open to everyone, so an employee sees what is genuinely available to them instead of a grid of spaces they are not entitled to.
The piece that unlocked the most capacity was letting a dedicated space be released. If the person it belongs to is away, they mark the days they will not need it and the space goes back into the pool, where someone who would otherwise have circled the levels can book it. The owner keeps the space, they just stop holding it while they are not there. Making that a deliberate action rather than something automatic kept it predictable: nobody loses their spot without knowing. Pulling those days automatically from calendar or leave systems was the obvious next step, but not something we built in this phase.
The app was paired with parking sensors ParkHere developed, which tracked which spaces were actually free at any moment. That gave the system the real state of the garage rather than only what people had booked.
Better use of spaces that had been sitting empty, fewer parking complaints reaching facilities, and a commute employees could plan instead of gamble on.
Angelo Wellens, Product Designer
Builds from first idea to launched product
