Kiosk & Installation
Development

The challenge

The centerpiece of CPNRD's visitor space is a sculptural wooden tree with a touchscreen built directly into its trunk. The interactive had to live up to that setting: matching the exhibit's hand-painted watercolor aesthetic in motion, guiding visitors with very different interests to the right content, and running unattended in a public lobby — while still reporting how visitors actually use it.

The solution

I built a native kiosk app paired with a cloud CMS: staff update content remotely, the kiosk runs fully offline. A custom watercolor animation engine carries McCullough Creative's hand-painted style into every interaction — ink-wash blooms on each screen, a watercolor finale to close each session. Visitor analytics sync to the cloud when a connection is available, with an on-device dashboard as fallback.

Key features

The challenge

The university needed touchscreen kiosks that run reliably offline in public spaces, with content staff could update remotely through a CMS they already knew.

The solution

I built a system where content editors manage everything through WordPress and Elementor — tools they already know. Behind the scenes, a custom pipeline automatically generates static versions of the content. Each kiosk runs a custom Electron application on Mac Minis with touch screens, syncing the latest content whenever a network connection is available and serving it locally when it's not.

Key features