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 …
What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights? November 22, 2016 by Super User Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. Kinda cool, but I don’t think …
Start-up Puts Seat-Back Digital OOH Ads In Uber, Lyft Cars November 21, 2016 by Super User Via MediaPost A company called Vugo is the latest start-up to try putting ad screens in the back seats of cars for hire, but with the twist that the vehicles are not taxis in a fleet, but owner-operated ride-share cars working for Uber and Lyft. The company told MediaPost it has 11,000 ride-sharing vehicles in Los Angeles …
How About A Huge, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall … In Your Dining Room? November 21, 2016 by Super User This is in somebody’s house. Yeah. It’s a 21 foot wide wide by 11 foot tall LED video wall made up of 192 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED modules, and is used as video art and, I guess, to play Dark Souls III and watch Duck Dynasty. The home is in Northern California and was installed with this …
See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App November 21, 2016 by Super User Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. The free Digital Design Tour app provides location mapping, visuals and details …
Skykit Releases Free Planning Guide For Digital Signage Projects November 21, 2016 by Super User Minneapolis-based software firm Agosto, a big Google Apps partner, branched into the digital signage market a couple of years ago through an in-house spinoff called Skykit – a CMS built around Chrome. The company has been an aggressive marketer lately, and recently came out with something I’ve not really seen before – a free and …
Sysview Must Have Liked Signagelive’s Website So Much The Company Just Went Ahead And Used It November 20, 2016 by Super User A mostly incomprehensible press release from a Chinese hardware and software company out of Shenzhen, called Sysview, sent me clicking through to the company website on the weekend, to try to figure out what they were going on about. I got off that original goal pretty quickly, though, as I starting clicking around and thinking, “Hmmm …
Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital November 20, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. New York-based creative design studio C&G Partners …
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 …
McDonald’s Plans U.S.-Wide Rollout Of Self-Service Order Kiosks November 19, 2016 by Super User The big moment for a lot of digital technology is when the big guys stop tests and trials and start rolling it out – and that’s what McDonald’s is now doing in the U.S. with self-service ordering kiosks. The fast food giant says it is planning to roll out self-service kiosks to all of its …
