It's very interesting what people say about our name. One thing for sure, the name Woobius is like marmite, some love it, some don't, but everyone remembers it.
Hi, I'm the founder of Woobius. Firstly, thanks for your kind words on the user interface. We are fortunate to have Cliff Rowley who been a key driving force behind it.
With respect to the body of your comment. The reason Woobius is useful to architects and engineers is that it fits into their existing workflow - e.g. they produce a 2D drawing that forms part of their legal documentation. While this process is (for all intent and purposes), basic, it's often neglected. Being practicing architects ourselves, we realised that by making this easy and efficient, our collaboration cost can be dramatically reduced.
I believe that once we have achieved this first step, we can start to tackle the more complex issue of allowing collaborative annotation on drawings themselves. Hopefully, by which time we would be in position to annotate a 3D model even!
Interestingly, the design of "The Bench" takes into consideration that everyone is not physically there every day. They can be away due to holiday, sickness, or even because they are having meetings in a room round the corner. And when that happens, the "legless" nature of the desk means you feel that you've got more space that you really have got. It's like the architectural trick we use often to make a space feel more generous by increasing the floor-to-ceiling height. Here, we are trying to maximise the benefit of absences to make your perceived desk space more generous.
During our 9 months experiment, this is perhaps biggest benefit that we felt.
Thanks for the honest comment though!