Design Inspiration

Today, I took a trip to two places that I hoped would provide some design inspiration. First, the Official NYC information center which uses these disks as interactive elements as well as a touch screen tv display and overhead tracking mechanism (I think). The displays help visitors find things to do in New York, save them to their disk, and print, email or text the information to their phone, so that they can create a custom guide to New York City.

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General view of the center
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Instructions to create a custom NYC guide
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View what celebrity New Yorkers like to do in the city
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The disk is placed onto a reader...
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Your selections are displayed using Google Earth on a set of large monitors
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Wall-based touch screen

The second place I visited was the American Museum of Natural Science, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was a brief trip. I just wanted to get an idea of what types of displays they had and if a touch-based display would be appropriate. There’s a lot of information in the museum and I wasn’t there too long. But, here are some of the displays that the museum has, that I hope will become useful to me.

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Touchscreen display

Display of earthquakes, worldwide
Display of earthquakes, worldwide

Static museum display
Static museum display

Buffalo display
Buffalo display

Earthquake display
Earthquake display

Map of the floors at the natural history museum
Map of the floors at the natural history museum

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