Projects: Mall Of America Adds Slim Digital Wayfinders November 30, 2016 by Super User Here’s a slightly different take on shopping mall wayfinding: smaller screens set at angles, instead of the jumbo vertical screens you mostly see in malls these days. This is at the Mall of America in Minneapolis – which I believe remains the largest shopping mall in the U.S. – and there are six of these, …
Ebay Pop-Ups Use Face Pattern Tech To Determine Gifts You Really Want To Buy November 30, 2016 by Super User A two-day pop-up store on London’s Oxford Street, run by Ebay, is using face pattern detection technology to help Christmas shoppers what they really should buy and put under the tree for loved ones. The idea is that the biometrics tech – touted among other things as capable of measuring emotional responses – will …
Projects: Poland’s Posnania Lights Up Ambitious Digital Sign Program November 30, 2016 by Super User Pretty much all the information is in Polish, and translate tools can only do so much, but what’s evident in any language is that this is a very impressive digital project at a high-end shopping mall in west-central Poland. The mall is called Posnania and is in the city of Poznan. There are some 100 …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Smart Mirrors Hit Consumer Mainstream November 29, 2016 by Super User A Taiwan-based electronics firm has started shipping a $189 smart mirror aimed at the consumer market that looks like the sort of thing some mid-tier retailers would like to have at their cosmetic counters. The HiMirror is a 14-inch LCD panel embedded in a mirror enclosure and topped with an IP-connected camera that can do …
Harrods Fills 6-Level Grand Entrance Hall With Fine Pitch LED Ad Walls November 24, 2016 by Super User Via The Drum The British luxury retailer Harrods has installed a series of large, fine pitch LED video installations that greet shoppers at every level in the store’s iconic six-storey Grand Entrance hall. There are 12 LED screens in various configurations at points in the six floors of the department store’s escalator atrium. As reported in The Drum, the …
UX Designers: Your Duty Is To Design Self-Service Systems That Are Just Obvious To Use November 22, 2016 by Matt Downey Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I spent 20 recently minutes trying to get out of a car park. With a row of cars behind me queued up hooting. Not the most fun I’ve had lately, and it was the second day in a row it happened. Let’s explore why. I rented a Zipcar – for …
Google Shops Open In Canada With 3×3 Feature Video Walls November 20, 2016 by Super User Google has set up Google Shops in Best Buy stores in four Canadian cities, as a means of enabling consumers to get their mitts on hardware sold mostly online. Google Canada’s “shop within a shop” spaces were officially opened Friday in the Toronto area, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. The one in the Toronto area is in Mississauga …
Nike Says It’s Transforming Sports Retail With New SOHO Store November 16, 2016 by Super User Nike just opened a new store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood that really pushes the idea of experiential retail – using massive digital visuals and tapping into sensors for real-time feedback. Nike Soho is a five-storey, multi-sport, 55,000-square-foot store at 529 Broadway at Spring Street. I THINK I tried to go in to it last …
Taco Bell’s 1st Flagship Store Features 4×4 Social Media Video Wall November 14, 2016 by Super User The fast food chain Taco Bell has opened its first “flagship” location, a two-storey Taco Bell Cantina on on the Las Vegas Strip – at Harmon Corner,across from City Center and The Cosmopolitan. I mention this because the store has a heavy digital presence, from digital menu boards to a 4 by 4 video wall that runs …
