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Category Archives: Kiosk Design
SnowGate Ski Lockers Sells to Best Lockers
Christian Nitu and Cory Finney sold their company to Best Lockers, a 46-year-old Maryland firm with personal electronic lockers in water parks, amusement parks and ski resorts across the country. They aren’t talking about the details of the deal, but Nitu called it “a moral victory.” Link to story Also see the Denver Post article The two former… Read More »
RedyRef enGAGE™ Line of Standard Kiosks
RedyRef Interactive Kiosks launches the enGAGE™ line of standard kiosks that can be used as it exists or be semi-customized to meet the component requirements of any kiosk application. Riverdale, New Jersey. – March 5, 2015 – RedyRef, a turn-key self-service kiosk solution provider announced that they have launched the enGAGE™ line of standard kiosks which features over… Read More »
Kiosk Advisory board Forming for Kiosk Industry
We are forming a new advisory user group to help “advise” on the best direction for the kiosk industry site. The kiosk industry group is for companies which are involved in kiosks and self-service. Through research, regulatory information, commentary or just the news, the kiosk industry group fosters the use and adoption of kiosks in self-service. Being on… Read More »
Kiosk Commentary – Is That Your Kiosk?
Is That You, Kiosk? I Hardly Recognize You Remember when your phone was something that you used to talk to other people? It didn’t store numbers, it was attached to a wall, and for some, even had a rotary dial. Now compare that to the phones of today. They record video, they connect you to the entire world,… Read More »
ADA Kiosks – American Kiosks Standard Countertop Kiosk With Assistive Technology
Countertop Kiosk ADA-equipped Standard Configuration We were cruising the internet and took a look at one of the standard kiosk model being offered by American Kiosks. AK is headed up by Eric Nebola and Tucker Lightsey. Some of you will remember Dan Berry who is one of the reps there. We couldn’t help but notice that the stock… Read More »
Digital Wayfinding – Cool Project
Cool project. 2016 JFK Digital Wayfinding project by OpenEye Global and Ikoniq. Background Ikoniq has a relationship with Westfield and has done a few projects together starting with something called the Wall Shop in Newark Airport. It is a retail store to help local businesses get access to the airport facility. Giving back to the community, per se.… Read More »
New Kiosk Website by Kiosk Innovations
Editors Note: We have known Neil Nguyen of Kiosk Innovations for over 15 years and his team is one of the most skilled and innovative self-service kiosk & digital signage design firms we know. Denver, CO – 09/20/16 — Kiosk Innovations is proud to announce the launch of our new website! A great deal of time and effort went… Read More »
Digital Kiosk Technologies – Transformation Enabled Kiosk Design
Kiosk Design – How to Leverage Technology and Control Total Cost of Ownership Edited from Olea Kiosk blog July 2021 Best Practices July 16, 2021 Introduction As we continue to see technology adoption grow across the general population, there are opportunities for companies looking to expand their digital transformation using self-service kiosk solutions. Not only are businesses looking for… Read More »
Application Kiosk Design – Responsive Kiosk Interface Part 1
How to Design a Responsive Kiosk User Interface – Part 1 A responsive kiosk user interface is a crucial component of developing a kiosk application that’s a pleasure for your customers to use. If your kiosk’s user interface appears sluggish, you can expect your customers will opt for interacting with a cashier, which defeats the purpose of having a self-service… Read More »
Kiosk FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
Kiosk FAQ is intended to answer those questions that we are asked frequently, no surprise there. Kiosk Mode Kiosk Best Practice Report on Usage of USPS kiosks usps- report.pdf Eliminate admin accounts in the OS. Learn from others How to Setup Kiosk Mode Chrome Kiosk Mode versus Kiosk software — Link How to do kiosk mode on Nexus 7 Setting Kiosk… Read More »
Kiosk Design Strategy – Minimum Value Product or MVP Kiosk Project
Reprinted with permission from KioskSimple website 4/23/2019 Today you’ll learn how you can get your first kiosk to market faster and for a smaller initial investment by creating an “MVP kiosk”. Let’s talk about what an MVP is and why you should create an MVP kiosk. A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy… Read More »
How to Build kiosk hardware| ARCA
Finding information on building a kiosk from scratch is difficult. Where should you even begin? There’s a lot to try and figure out. Software. Hardware. Integration. Deployment. As a fun project, I decided to try and forget everything that I’ve learned about kiosks and start from the beginning. Thankfully, forgetting everything came pretty naturally to me. Essentially—I wanted my mind to be a blank slate. So, like everyone else, I started with Google. My first search query was “developing a kiosk from scratch”, and the results were a bit disappointing. The only one that really grabbed by attention was a case study from Elo Touch Solutions titled “Strategies for Successful Kiosk Implementation.” In the case study, Elo did a great job of talking about the growth of the kiosk industry, suggestions for kiosk deployment, and the importance of touch technologies. But as you can imagine, since Elo is a for-profit company it was skewed towards their technology.
Source: arca.com
Kiosks vs Kiosks Usability
A very nice article on usability and design by Digital Wellbeing Labs. This is earlier review of earlier iterations of the “cool unit” that was just deployed at JFK. Posted by agrunsteidl on 12/12/08 • Categorized as interactions, retail environments, service design Why do some kiosks appeal, whilst others are frankly just repulsive? I have this weird relationship… Read More »
Meeting the ADA compliance challenge
Meeting the ADA Kiosk compliance challenge Article from KioskMarketplace July 2014 For Greg Buzek, president of Franklin, Tennessee-based research firm IHL Group, ADA compliance makes good business sense for kiosk operators. “Understanding your customers means being able to accommodate all of them,” Buzek said. “This is particularly true whenever kiosk are deployed in stores. Retailers lose $435 billion… Read More »
5 Kiosk Design Tips for Scalable Kiosk Applications
Blog article on designing kiosk application to scale. Creating a kiosk application capable of scaling from a handful of kiosks at a single location, up to thousands of kiosks spread across multiple regions requires that you design for scalability from day one.
Source: blog.kiosksimple.com
1. Offload computation to the kiosk to reduce the workload on the server
2. Choose the right database engine based on the nature of your data
3. Use a reliable content delivery network with geo-location to rapidly deliver content
4. Ensure maintainability through modular design and loosely coupled layers
5. Regularly analyze your code to ensure it’s running efficiently
Tech News – ambient light enhancing
AmbiLED HD adhesive strip – no additional cabling or construction needed. Attach the strip to the back of their monitor to enhance the experience. AmbiLED HD ontrols up to 256 LEDs . The adhesive LED strip basically projects the nearest color to the background to improve the viewer’s visual experience. Source link