Access Kiosk Pocket
A brand-scraping tool built as a Chrome extension, rebuilt at an Access hackathon to turn any brand into a ready-made kiosk configuration in one press.
- Client
- Access Group
- Role
- Hospitality UX Lead
- Timeframe
- 2025
- Sector
- Hospitality technology
It started as Brand Pocket
Before it had anything to do with kiosks it was called Brand Pocket, and I designed and built it as a Chrome extension. Plenty of separate extensions did pieces of this. This one brought them together. It would go and gather a brand's assets and produce an assessment of the brand, including who inside the business owned it.
It existed because of the way I start kiosk work. Before anything else I want to understand the brand front to back: its digital experience, its social media presence, its store designs, everything. Brand Pocket did that gathering for me.
Then the hackathon
For an Access hackathon I rebuilt it inside their own proprietary wrapper, and that version became Kiosk Pocket, because it went a step further.
It produced three different interpretations of the brand and converted them into the configuration of the design system for the kiosk. The back end was configurable: you could tell it the logic of the product it was going to brand, so the same pocket could be pointed at different products across Access.
Then it went one step further again. Log into our configuration tool and it was a one-press transfer of settings. Logos, colour codes, everything.
What it was for
I pitched it as a time saver, and not only for design. The customer success team and the sales team stood to get as much out of it as we did. It won an award at the hackathon, and Access are now attempting to rebuild it as a full product.
