Photography has been a passion of mine for many years and I’ve begun dabbling in video over the last 18 months as well. Thus, it’s likely no surprise that one of my first reactions when starting to regularly work from home was “how can I use my existing gear for…

Tuning a single query can dramatically improve performance options An important aspect of a smart city kiosk is the idea that data and functionality are ready and waiting for a user at all times. As I mentioned in a previous post, Improving perceived interface responsiveness on public kiosks, the responsiveness…

Bringing digital experiences to physical spaces requires a sense of immediacy Sense of immediacy One of the most compelling aspects of a kiosk experience is a sense of immediacy: that your interactions with the screen will immediately cause something to happen without perceptible delay. In many ways, this is due to the fact…

There’s a lot of magic to a simple number on a screen Picture an average commute on public transit. You walk out of your front door and down the street. Maybe you’re running a bit late, so the walk is closer to a speedwalk, with your shins getting tired as…

Or, getting in touch with the input pipeline 👈 This post is somewhat of a spiritual successor to a prior post, Web App Multi-touch is Complicated. We learned a lot from that experience, but as it turns out, we also had plenty more to learn! In the middle of March…

There are pixels and then there are CSS pixels As many web developers know, perfectly formulating your cascading style sheets (CSS) is one of the most difficult parts of summoning a web app into existence. A pixel here, a margin there; gaining that perfect one-to-one match with the Photoshop/Sketch/Axure mock-ups…

Tl;dr building a non-zoomable web app for kiosks is hard Touch interaction is fundamental to the kiosk experiences we build in transit. Interaction patterns of the past, such as buttons and knobs, have all but given way to touchscreens. It makes sense, as engineers can create almost infinitely varied experiences…

Making cities smarter requires smart engineering habits 🏗️ Building human-centered digital experiences is always a challenge. That challenge increases dramatically when trying to bridge the divide between the built environment, physical product, and digital experience. That’s one of the tasks our engineering team is aiming to achieve at Intersection. After…

A quick recap of Transit Techies NYC #6: Six-Car Train, a meetup held on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Tyler Green kicked off the session with a few housekeeping notes. As usual, we started off with a gag! Kohzy Koh lamented about the lackluster check-in…