Category Archives: Design
Creating a 5 Day Weather Forecast in Carousel
Ever wish you could create a 5 day weather forecast in Carousel? Well, now you can! Actually, you can create any weather forecast with up to seven days worth of data. Below is a quick tutorial to get you on your way! 1. Click New Bulletin 2. Click the Dynamic Tab (Choose Weather bulletin) 3. [...]
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Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays from Tightrope Media Systems! Download Icons We hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday. As a small thank you for being our customer, we wanted to let you know about a new, FREE graphics package of icons for your Carousel channel. We have created many useful images for categories like Health, [...]
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New Channel Designs for Carousel 6 Now Available!
Tightrope Creative has added 7 new channel designs to the online store. Get down to business with the “Office” layout or have a little fun with the “Travel” channel. Either way, your messages will be communicated in a stylish new way. New 16×9 channel designs include: “Office”, “Classic”, “Travel”, “Sleek” and “Leather”. We are also [...]
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Unability exception: MAX light rail announcer in Portland confusing
We were at RailsConf in Portland a few weeks ago and were riding the MAX light rail system. The MAX is great! I wish MSP has a system like that. It was really easy to get everywhere we needed to be on the train. It is a normal train with doors on each side of [...]
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Unability exception: Northwest Airlines flight notification
Northwest sends you a text message before your flight to notify you of your departure time. This is a useful feature because it confirms that your flight is on-time or delayed. So the text message reads: (Northwest Departure Status) NW 218 June 2 ON TIME to depart MSP at 5:35 pm and arrive PDX at [...]
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Usability exception: Introduction
I was recently on a trip with the devel team and I saw a lot of things that bugged me; which in turn bugged the team when I complained about them. Most of them were related to how we interact with things. This series is dedicated to BAD usability. I coin them usability exceptions. Not [...]
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In review: Still in love after the honeymoon
So, I’ve had my Macbook Air for a few months now and I still love it! I actually had to do some maintenance on my wife’s Dell the other day and i couldn’t believe how bad the keyboard was. It felt like I was using an old computer from the 80′s. The feel of the [...]
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Art from limitation: Self-imposed limitation
I have a piece of glass in my workshop. It is 2′ by 5′, tapered on the edges. I want to make a table out of it however, I’m not feeling inspired. I think it is a waste to have a nice piece of glass sitting in the corner but I don’t want to use [...]
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Art from limitation: Twitter
If you don’t know about twitter go google it… The most amazing thing about twitter, to me, is how you have limited characters in your tweets. I love it. It is a great example of thoughtful design. The creators decided that 140 characters is all you need. There is no technical limitation, tweets could be [...]
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Pro Tips: Weather Forecast Bulletins