As the Schüco team was reviewing their products ahead of BAU2023, they had the feeling that a part of the customer experience for their top-of-the-line sliding door was missing. There was no unique key for one of the best sliding doors on the market. We couldn’t redesign the key and lock themselves but adapted the key with an integrated holder and cap meant to bring pleasure to the simple act of locking the door to your patio or balcony. To do so we were thinking about contemporary car keys (when they still have them), which are less keys than they are ergonomic, branded smart boxes with a couple of buttons and specific electronics. While this key still has a unique, security based form, nowadays keys are valuable not for how they fit in a lock, but how they fit in your hand and the specific hard and software that they contain. The key is now an essential component or each new product that we develop with Schüco.