Digital signage plays a critical role in the workplace, but most screens are still underused and limited to static images and scrolling text.
So, what happens when you combine generative AI, real-time data, and custom code?
That question inspired “The 12 Days of Korbyt”. We challenged ourselves to design 12 digital signage concepts that turn screens into intelligent, responsive communication tools. These are not just pretty visuals, they are practical, real-world solutions built on Korbyt’s platform and powered by AI and smart automation.
Here’s a look at 12 innovative concepts that bring screens to life as dynamic, engaging experiences:
1. The Global Window
Most offices settle for a row of analog clocks to show global time zones. It’s functional, but it lacks connection. The Global Window builds on this idea by showing what it actually looks like in your other office locations right now. Instead of just a number on a clock, your New York team can see London at dusk or Tokyo at the start of a new day. Time zones become visual, human, and more meaningful.
- Why It Matters: Creates a stronger sense of connection and shared presence for globally distributed teams.
- How It Works: Korbyt handles time zone logic, while GenAI generates photorealistic cityscapes for each location and time of day.
2. Market Sentiment Living Art
Financial data is often presented in sterile charts and graphs that fail to capture attention. This concept turns real-time market data into a living art installation. The display morphs and flows to reflect market sentiment, with emerald swirls for a bullish market, deep burgundy for a bearish one, and calm blue-gray during periods of stability.
- Why It Matters: Provides corporate lobbies or finance teams with a glanceable, visually appealing view of overall market health.
- How It Works: Korbyt integrates real-time market data, while AI generates dynamic, generative art that never repeats.
3. The Menu Match
Cafeteria menus are often an afterthought, displaying plain text that does little to spark appetite. The Menu Match concept leverages AI to automatically generate professional-quality food photography for every menu item, on the fly.
- Why It Matters: Increases employee engagement and satisfaction with workplace dining by making menus more visually appealing and exciting.
- How It Works: Korbyt integrates with menu data systems, while AI generates unique food visuals automatically.
4. The Campus Minimap
Finding a quiet study spot on a busy campus can be frustrating. The Campus Minimap solves this by transforming a standard 2D floor plan into a 3D isometric map that looks like a video game. It uses live occupancy data to show students exactly where open seats are, with zones glowing green for available, yellow for busy, and red for full.
- Why It Matters: Improves the student experience by reducing time spent searching for available study spaces or shorter dining hall lines.
- How It Works: Korbyt integrates with occupancy data sources such as Wi-Fi access points and AI generates interactive 3D maps from existing 2D plans.
5. The Commute Color Wall
What if your office screens could help you beat rush hour? The Commute Color Wall visualizes real-time traffic data for key routes as simple, color-coded bars. Employees can glance across the office and know instantly whether it’s a good time to leave.
- Why It Matters: Enhance the employee experience by providing practical, at-a-glance information that helps save time and reduce commute-related stress.
- How It Works: Korbyt integrates with real-time traffic APIs, while AI creates clean, glanceable animations.
6. The Production Pulse
Traditional spreadsheets and static KPI tables often fall short when it comes to motivating a high-performance team. That’s where the “Production Pulse” tree comes in, transforming production goals into a gamified experience. At low output, the tree appears bare, but as targets are met, lights begin to twinkle and presents appear.
- Why It Matters: Boosts morale and motivates teams by turning performance data into a fun, collaborative, and visually rewarding game.
- How It Works: Korbyt tracks KPIs in real time, while AI-assisted coding generates the game logic and animations.
7. The Sales Victory Parade
Waiting for the weekly all-hands meeting to celebrate a big win slows momentum. The Sales Victory Parade creates an instant celebration across office screens the moment a deal closes. The scale of the celebration, from a small burst of confetti to a full-screen fireworks takeover, automatical adjusts based on the value of the deal.
- Why It Matters: Drives competitive energy and provides instant recognition by celebrating sales wins in real-time.
- How It Works: Korbyt connects to CRM systems, while AI generates dynamic animations and logic for different celebration tiers.
8. The Wellness Wheel
Company wellness goals are often lost in emails and HR reports. The Wellness Wheel brings them to life through a live dashboard. It visualizes organization-wide progress toward initiatives like total steps, active minutes, and mindfulness sessions. As the company moves closer to its targets, large rings fill up, creating a sense of shared achievement.
- Why It Matters: Boosts participation and engagement in wellness programs by making progress visible and collaborative.
- How It Works: Korbyt integrates with wellness platforms to pull privacy-safe data, and AI creates engaging, celebratory visuals.
9. The Community Wall
For a large organization, feeling “local” across hundreds of different offices or branches is a major operational challenge. The Community Wall addresses this by deploying an AI agent as a “Local Editor” for each location. It automatically identifies positive, brand-safe community news, such as local awards or farmers’ market schedules, and displays it in a custom corkboard-style, unique to each neighborhood.
- Why It Matters: Builds trust and community connection at scale by delivering hyper-local content to hundreds of locations with minimal manual effort.
- How It Works: Korbyt routes content by location, while AI curates, formats, and filters relevant local news.
10. The Smart Queue Board
Traditional queue boards showing long wait times can stress out both customers and staff. The Smart Queue Board takes a smarter approach by applying a “morale filter”. When wait times are short, it displays them proudly. When they grow too long, it hides the timer and replaces it with positive metrics, such as “350 Customers Helped This Week” or recent 5-star reviews.
- Why It Matters: Reduces customer stress and helps motivate staff during busy periods by shifting focusing on positive achievements.
- How It Works: Korbyt connects to queue management systems, and AI applies conditional logic to show the most relevant metrics at the right time.
11. The Impact Ripple
ESG metrics like “4,500 kWh Saved” are important, but they lose emotional impact when presented as static text. The Impact Ripple turns sustainability data into a living visualization. As your building saves energy or water, calming, fluid ripples spread across the screen, making the environmental impact feel tangible and real.
- Why It Matters: Highlights ESG initiatives through stunning visuals, helping foster a culture where employees and visitors feel inspired to support environmental goals.
- How It Works: Korbyt connects to building management systems to access real-time data, and AI generates ripple physics optimized for smooth playback.
12. The Fleet Heartbeat
A map of a logistics fleet often looks like a chaotic collection of dots. The Fleet Heartbeat turns that view into a living system. Each vehicle on the map pulses with a “bio-rhythm” that reflects its status, with a steady green pulse for smooth movement and an urgent red flash for critical delays. At a glance, teams can sense the overall health of the operation.
- Why It Matters: Gives operations teams an intuitive way to monitor their logistics network and spot issues quickly.
- How It Works: Korbyt ingests real-time telemetry data from fleet management systems, while AI translates vehicle speed and status into visual “pulse rates.”
The New Era of Programmable Signage
From gamified production goals to dynamic art installations, these 12 concepts show what’s possible when a powerful digital signage platform is combined with the creative and technical scalability of AI. This is the new era of programmable signage, where screens do more than just display information. They solve real challenges, adapt in real time, and create immersive experiences that connect people to what matters most.
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