The finished wall in a hotel ballroom: a long white wall under a blue U.S. Bank header, tall screens with white pedestals in front, investors at the stations.
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The Investor Day Wall

A wall of five product stories for U.S. Bank's Investor Day. Pick up a cube, choose a side, set it down, and the screen in front of you tells that story.

Where Mandarin Oriental, New York
What Interactive product wall
Role Creative director and creative technologist. Built all of the digital pieces.
The wall, live
The moment

Set it down. The wall answers.

A ballroom full of investors who had seen every slide. Instead, a small black cube on a white pedestal. Pick it up, turn it to the icon you're curious about, set it back down, and the screen in front of you starts telling that story. No menu, no touchscreen, nobody explaining how it works. You already know how to put something down.

01 · The ask · Investor Day

Five products, one room full of investors.

U.S. Bank's Investor Day took over a ballroom at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. The bank wanted investors to see five of its products for themselves, not on a slide.

The answer was a wall with five stations, each one a story you could start with your own hands.

02 · The idea · The cube

Pick it up. Set it down.

A small black cube on a white pedestal. Every side has its own icon, and behind every icon, its own NFC tag. Pick the cube up, turn it to the story you want, set it back down, and the pedestal reads which side is face down. The screen does the rest.

Nothing to learn. You already know how to put something down.

03 · Prototype · The office

Tested in the office first.

A month out, one station stood in an office: a tall screen, a reader and a cube, measured and timed until setting it down felt instant.

04 · Install · Install day

A ballroom becomes a showroom.

One day to turn a hotel ballroom into a product wall: the panels, the header, five screens, five pedestals and every cube tested on site.

05 · The room · The day

Investors played with the products.

Investors moved from station to station, cube in hand, turning it to the next story. Small Business Lending. Elavon's Poynt. Five products, told by the people who picked them.

What's inside

The parts that make it work.

  • A cube with six answersA different icon on every face, and a different NFC tag behind each one.
  • A reader in every pedestalIt knows which side is face down, so it knows which story you picked.
  • Tall portrait screensOne per station, framed into the wall.
  • Five stationsFive product stories, side by side.
  • The content systemBuilt by Charles, so setting down the cube loads and plays the right story on the right screen.

We worked on this project before founding TinyRobot.

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