Error States

023 - Outdoor Advertising

You drive down your local highway. Strip malls are to your left and right. You stop at a red light. To your left is a sign post, slightly weathered yet traditional – it lists your Chipotle, your Firehouse Subs, your local T Mobile and AT&T stores, a local hardware

022 - ATM Error

My wife and I debated for some time as to whether this qualified as an error state. “But it’s not entirely broken!” she argued. “But it is!” I countered right back. Not every error state needs to be an example of something visibly broken. There are good error states.

021 - Starbucks Screens

My last year in high school and a few years through college, I worked at Starbucks. It was a pretty great job as far as customer service went. My town happened to have one of the first Starbucks’ with a hot-food oven and a drive-through. My coworkers would put me

020 - Even Geek Squad

There’s a lot of reasons why a business might put up a screen (or a TV that mirrors a computer). It is eye catching! It can programmatically rotate and display information! It might cost more up front, but switching content out becomes fast and easy and inexpensive after that

019 - Too Much of a Workout

Judging by the buttons, it looks like it is running a flavor of Android. I can’t blame Les Mills. Cardio is hard. I’ve never actually pressed the ok button. Do you want to close it? I see it at my local gym pretty routinely. I wonder what will

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