Streamline Your Customers’ Experiences With Unique Indoor Kiosks

ATMs are certainly not the only indoor kiosks; as their hardware and software improves, specific and well-designed kiosks can automate many portions of the customer’s experience and can be especially helpful when customers or employees need assistance, but nobody is available to help them. With companies that specialize in working closely with businesses and organizations to make the devices they need, you can build and design your own library check-out stations, job application stations, sign-up booths for reward programs at a grocery store, ordering station for souvenirs at an amusement park… anything that requires a touch-screen and information regarding your products and services should be carefully and well-built so that customers and employees can have the most comfortable and reliable experience.

Indoor kiosk manufacturers often offer standard, general designs that have already elicited positive responses from various clients. If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for in a kiosk but want something very similar to what a competitor has, you can easily find either the same machine or something bearing close resemblance. However, taking the time and thought to design your own kiosk helps make the automated process fit so well with your business or service, and users will feel less confused by information or features that have nothing to do with your operation.

There are far more features and variables to consider when designing your own than the exterior model. Think carefully about the quality and the adaptability or a touch screen’s brightness: you don’t want something that’s too bright for dark environments that might irritate users or something too dim for very bright environments that would make reading very difficult.

If you need to print receipts of any sort, investing in a good printer (especially one that can automatically fix jams and has a very precise cutter) will lower the amount of maintenance required and will prevent any faulty or incomplete experiences.

Most importantly, find a manufacturer that also provides software programming. The exterior function of the kiosk is not as important as the software that conveys information and guides the customer’s experience – you will need to think carefully about the visual aesthetic of the software and what features you would like to include (i.e. option to send a copy of a receipt via email.)  Generic software that isn’t perfectly tailored to your business or organization can leave people confused, as there may be many features that don’t correspond to your particular use of the kiosk or missing features that your particular kiosk should clearly provide.

There are many other features to consider when designing indoor kiosks – anti-theft technologies; slots for cash, coin, and credit; barcode or phone scanner, etc. If you work with a great manufacturer, you’ll get help making the best choices.

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7 Tips to Boost Your 3D Printing Skills

It’s true what Quartz says: it’s not going to be hard to believe that 3d printing technologies will find a way to get deeply entrenched into the fabric of people’s lives in the future. To make sure you’re ready when that time comes, here are some handy tips to help boost your 3d printing skills:

1. Inspect the unit the first time it arrives at your doorstep. Check it for damage asap. Most companies have a return and exchange policy that allows you to return items within the first 72 hours. Don’t miss that window.

2. Use the right materials. Depending on what you’re trying to produce, make sure you use the right combination of resins. You can also use CAD to start designing your work.

3. Take advantage of updates, technologies and improvements. Bring all that into your work to help you produce the best item or object you’ve set your mind on. This goes for improvements in materials too. Wired reports about Tough Resin, the newest type of 3d printing material you can explore. That doesn’t mean you have to completely dismiss 3d printer resin types from times of yore. However it does provide you with an interesting alternative to normal resins used in 3d printing projects.

4. Know your printer. Nothing beats technical mastery and expertise coupled with vision. If you’re still working out on the last one, though, then at least have the first two by mastering every feature on your printer. By knowing just how to manipulate your printer to produce the best results, you’ll soon find the quality of your attempts improving in the best way.

5. Go for risks. Don’t be afraid to make errors or flaws in judgment. You’ll fail a lot. But you’ll learn a whole lot more in the process too. Welcome both.

6. Leave room for mistakes. No matter the major developments, 3d printing is still a relatively new technology. So don’t expect tiny items of perfection to come out of your printer. There’s room left enough to grow.

7. Find a forum. Talk to other people who are as passionate about the technology as you are. Build a network or support system of like-minded 3d printing enthusiasts. All these should help you improve your 3d printing skills. You’ll also get valuable tips and suggestions this way.

So improve your 3d printing skills. With tips, help and plenty of practice, you’ll be 3d printing little perfect tchotchkes in no time.

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