Dribbble - Receipts by Matthew Smith

Pro Matthew Smith

in response to : http://52weeksofux.com/post/461252032/its-the-little-things

about 2 years ago

Pro Casey Nix

Love the suggested total section. Very nice.

about 2 years ago

Greg Gamel

Makes me want to design receipts, just for the fun of it!

about 2 years ago

Pro Jay Fanelli

I'm a big fan of the latest trend of designers tackling seemingly mundane—but totally frustrating—design problems. This fits in very nicely with Tyler Thompson's boarding pass redesign.

about 2 years ago

More businesses need to design their receipts. It's a rarely-thought of, but brilliant, opportunity.
Dustin Curtis writes a nice little article on his experience.
http://dustincurtis.com/two_stories.html

about 2 years ago

Pro Dave Rau

A very nice piece; clear and readable type. But underline for emphasis — call me unconvinced.

about 2 years ago

Pro Bryan Veloso

I love it, but at the same time... it makes me wonder how much of this would be possible.

Considering how antiquated receipt printers are and the software that runs them, I automatically pass this sort of stuff off as a pipe-dream. Same with the boarding passes. Sure, the stationary can look nice, but you have no control over typography.

Long story short, I'd love to see receipts like this, but I doubt we ever will unless somebody wants to revolutionize the point of sale industry.

(Apologies for bringing down the mood, if at all... this was more of a response to Philip's statement about how businesses need to do this.)

about 2 years ago

Yaron Schoen

Dude thats so cool. I want to design something like that now. Poor old me, I'm stuck with boring website projects :)

about 2 years ago

Josh Brewer

I have to somewhat agree with Bryan, mostly because I know the limitations of most receipt printers. However, this is just outstanding and if more receipt printers get an update, something like this might be perfectly possible.

about 2 years ago

Pro Nick Toye

This kind of receipt style has given me an idea for a thank you page, which I have to admit gets very little treatment.

about 2 years ago

Pro Tyler Thompson

This is such a great concept.

about 2 years ago

Pro Grant Blakeman

wow, that's beautiful.

about 2 years ago

Pro Matthew Anderson

Bryan might have a point, but he's also a party pooper! ;)

This looks amazing! No harm in dreaming, I say. Love how noticeable 'YOUR COPY' is. I hate noticing that after you've already filled out your receipt and signed it.

Excellent work here, Matthew.

about 2 years ago

Pro Philip Renich

@Bryan,

Dustin's example I link to may be a bit extreme for receipt printers to handle, yes. He does mention how it's impractical for several reasons.

However, I was just down at my local bar last night and checked out their receipt when my server brought the check. The top has their graphical logo followed by a centered address/phone block. After that are all the details like time, server, check number, card details, etc. Then there's the usual tip/total slots and signature line. The bottom is clearly labeled *** Merchant Copy *** and *** Customer Copy ***

The block of details between their branding and the areas I fill in has a bold line. So I know that these printers can do bold, centering, images, and some rudimentary spacing/layout.

It isn't horrible, but you couldn't definitely do more with it, at least to make it more user friendly (bold the date so you can find it when going over your receipts)

That got long, sorry. :-) Just saying that these things can print more than the basics. That tells me with some updated software you could do anything.

about 2 years ago

Chris Drackett

@Bryan I think as things like square become more common place (which I would bet on), we'll start to see much better receipt design... and ones that hopefully don't even waste any paper:

square receipt

about 2 years ago

Pro Matthew Smith

@Bryan / @joshua,
I would agree its doubtful that it will be adopted wholeheartedly, but if we stayed with technology as our bottleneck, we'd never make forward progress. I would say the receipt printers are antiquated.

With groups like Square creating iPod Touch POS services, the receipt printer is potentially already antiquated and waiting for updates. We may not even get receipts printed in some places in the not so distant future, but receipts immediately transfered to our email accts, etc.

Wow, and I'm just seeing Chris Dracket's comment! Ha, we're both thinking the same thing ;)

about 2 years ago