How do you keep building without starting over? A long-term partnership with Vasakronan
How do you evolve an entire digital ecosystem for one of Sweden’s largest real estate companies, with high demands on performance, accessibility, and brand consistency, without tearing down what already works?
Together with Vasakronan, that’s exactly the challenge we took on. One step at a time. Built for the long run.
A digital presence in constant motion
Vasakronan is Sweden’s largest real estate company, with properties and city districts across Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, and Malmö. Their ambition is clear and long-term: to create sustainable environments where people thrive and businesses can grow.
The digital experience needs to reflect that too.
When a platform supports everything from coworking concepts and property information to customer journeys and internal workflows, standing still isn’t really an option. The experience needs to keep evolving, without slowing the business down along the way.
Challenge
To further develop an existing web platform, strengthen the technical foundation, and implement an entirely new brand expression, all without disrupting day-to-day operations or losing what already worked.
Solution
A long-term digital partnership where UX strategy, design, development, project management, and quality assurance come together to continuously improve and evolve Vasakronan’s digital presence. No big resets. Just steady progress over time.
“In our ambition to meet the needs of customers and visitors on vasakronan.se, the landscape is constantly changing. That’s why it means a lot to have a well-established collaboration with the team at iO, who understand both our history and our future ambitions, while bringing the expertise needed to keep pushing our digital presence forward.”

Victoria Wahlberg, Marketing Strategist, Vasakronan
From technical development to strategic partnership
Our collaboration with Vasakronan began in 2018 and has since grown into a long-term digital partnership.
What started as continuous development of an existing platform has evolved into a close collaboration around the entire digital experience, from technical development and integrations to UX, design, and ongoing optimization.
Together, we’ve modernized the technical foundation step by step while keeping the business moving without interruption. The focus has remained the same throughout: building a digital experience designed to hold up over time, technically, visually, and strategically.
Today, we work continuously across Vasakronan’s digital ecosystem, from the main website and integrations to digital services and websites for retail destinations.
One of the biggest milestones in the partnership came when Vasakronan introduced a refreshed brand identity. Our role was to bring it into the digital world, where accessibility, performance, design, and technical requirements all needed to work together seamlessly.
We translated the brand guidelines into web-specific design solutions, rebuilt the Arena coworking experience from the ground up, and made sure the experience felt cohesive across every touchpoint.
At the same time, large-scale content migrations were carried out carefully and methodically to ensure nothing got lost along the way.
This project is also a great example of what happens when multiple disciplines collaborate closely over time.
UX covered the full spectrum, from strategy to design. UI design shaped a visual experience that feels both consistent and unmistakably Vasakronan. Developers built scalable solutions with accessibility and performance built in from the start. Project management kept the entire process moving forward. QA made sure everything worked, everywhere.
Different disciplines. One shared direction.
The results
- 7+ yearsLong-term partnership with continuous development and optimization
- 1 brandOne refreshed brand experience across the entire digital ecosystem
- 0 disruptionsTechnical foundation modernized without disrupting daily operations
- 1000+Thousands of pages migrated with zero loss of functionality or content
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