Adventures in Japanese UI design: Acure Drinks Vending Machine
This is the first post in what hopefully will be a series: “Adventures in Japanese UI design”.
Every now and then I will be posting some inspiring Japanese UI designs as I encounter them.
First up is the Acure drinks vending machine, easily the most impressive UI I’ve ever witnessed for something simple like a drinks machine.
Overview of all available drinks.Detail screen – Red Bull. The description mentions Red Bull is sold in over 160 countries. The drink is shown at actual size.Detail screen – Hot soup. Notice that this vending machine sells both heated drinks and cold drinks. The description shows calorie information and mentions the healthiness of the soup.You can pay with Suica, a contactless IC card. Suica stans for Super Urban Intelligent Card – I kid you not.Clear instructions show you how to get a drink: 1. Select drink 2. Pay with coins or Suica 3. Enjoy drink.