Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Chauncey Wilson]

Just an FYI:

Staples (and other large office supply stores) have magnetic sheets in
the specialized printer paper section that you can put through an
inkjet (BUT NOT A LASER) printer. You can print your own set of
widgets pretty easily.  Most whiteboards are now magnetic so you can
lay out your designs on a white board.  You can purchase small
whiteboards that are magnetic and small enough to carry around.  The
small whiteboards costs between $10 and $80. Tom Tullis used this
approach at Fidelity (I believe he called it FIDO) where he asked
users to build a web pages given a set of magnetic components.

Chauncey


> They have something called "Magnetic Web Widgets"
>
> Magnetic Web Widgets provides you with a tool box containing all the
> common interface nick-nacks -- from textboxes to buttons and checkboxes.
> Just stick them on your whiteboard and start designing.
>
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Jeff White]

On Dec 10, 2007 3:52 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They both sound like great ideas, but maybe with different sized scopes.
> The question is: how much time is needed for the Wikipolitics? Is it a
> bigger project than what Michael was thinking? If yes, would we benefit from
> a small victory on a smaller project before tackling a bigger project?
>

Good point. If the scope for this is big, we either start small, or
pick another project with a smaller scope altogether. I would think
the latter would be better - it's always good to see something launch,
and a quick win might generate more interest which in turn allows us
to tackle bigger things.

Jeff

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Robert Hoekman, Jr.]

> Sitepoint created something called "The Usability Kit"
>
> http://www.sitepoint.com/kits/usability1/


Wow - I wonder if I could just resell these to my clients and retire early.
Apparently, one of the things I do best can be reduced to a $200 kit, so
maybe I should stop designing and get more sleep.

(Joking, obviously.)

-r-

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[IxDA Discuss] Reminder: NYC UX Holiday Party, Tue Dec-11, 6:30pm, IxDA Conf Registration Offer

[Nasir Barday]

A friendly reminder to NYC folks of all UX flavors and their collaborators
about our community holiday party Tuesday night. This is usually the largest
UX social event of the year and always proves a lot of fun.

The details again, right at your fingertips:
Details:
Tuesday, December 11th from 6:30pm to 9pm (or until someone tries to define
IA again)
Eight Mile Creek
240 Mulberry Street (btw Prince and Spring)
http://tinyurl.com/2h8h9g

Plus, find Dave Malouf, register for the Interaction '08 Conference on his
iPhone, and get a free drink!
Conference info:
http://interaction08.ixda.org/

Dave Malouf's site, with fabulous pictures of himself so you can recognize
him (or just look for the iridescent iPhone):
http://synapticburn.com/

Happy Holidays, Everyone!
- Nasir
NYC IxDA

On Nov 27, 2007 11:35 PM, Nasir Barday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> It's hard to believe that December is upon us again! It's a season for
> everyone to get together and remember the year, and you can bet the NYC-UX
> community is celebrating! There's also a great registration offer for the
> Interaction '08 Conference, but more on that later.
>
> Details:
> Tuesday, December 11th from 6:30pm to 9pm (or until someone tries to
> define IA again)
> Eight Mile Creek
> 240 Mulberry Street (btw Prince and Spring)
> http://tinyurl.com/2h8h9g
>
> Now here's the good part: Find Dave Malouf during the evening, register
> for the Interaciton '08 conference right on his iPhone, and get a free
> drink! If you don't recognize Dave, just ask around (or just look for a
> group of huddled thirsty people illuminated by an iPhone).
>
> Conference info (check out the lineup and try not to pass out!!):
> http://interaction08.ixda.org/
>
> See you there, and Happy Holidays from NYC UXnet!
>
> - Nasir
> NYC IxDA
>

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Dennis Morrow]

Sitepoint created something called "The Usability Kit"

http://www.sitepoint.com/kits/usability1/

They have something called "Magnetic Web Widgets"

Magnetic Web Widgets provides you with a tool box containing all the
common interface nick-nacks -- from textboxes to buttons and checkboxes.
Just stick them on your whiteboard and start designing.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bad Changes In The New Gmail Version

[Kivi Shapiro]

This makes more sense if you consider that in GMail, "Inbox"
is just a label.

Those new buttons have two quite different actions.  By
clicking on the label, you view all conversations with that
label.  This was also true in the old interface, except it
had a hyperlink instead of a button.  And clicking on the
"X" removes the label from this particular conversation.
I'm not sure there's room on one button for two such
different actions.

Anyway, removing the "Inbox" label is also what the message
about archiving refers to.  Other email clients use the word
to refer to a different action, so yes, that's confusing
too.  

There is an Archive button in the UI, with bolded text to
boot.  It's exactly where you'd expect to find a Delete
button.  This was one of the most controversial features of
GMail at the start, that they made it hard to truly delete
messages.

The change in paradigm from folders to labels, especially
"Inbox", does seem to take some getting used to, on the
developers' part as well as the users.  I like the new
paradigm a lot, though, and will be excited once they've
ironed out all the wrinkles.

Kivi

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Version


I've also noticed a new "Inbox" button in the email header
with an "X" icon.
Visually it appears to be a single button, but is actually
two. 

"Inbox" returns me to the list of emails in my inbox, while
the X "removes
the inbox label". Once the "inbox label" has been removed
the email vanishes
from my inbox. A dialog informs me that it has been
"archived", but there is
no reference anywhere in the UI to an archive. 

It's unfortunate. I've always liked the Gmail interface.

Chris





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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Oleh Kovalchuke]

I was thinking about something like Google map mashup with zoom to
aggregated/detailed view for global, local issues. The framework for one
issue (opinion heat-map for global warming for instance) would be replicated
on different zoom scales. I am not certain about the scope. Someone on this
list has designed for Google mashups, perhaps she or he could chime in.

Initially we would need personas, a workflow, and a set of conceptual
wireframes stored in Google docs/ Flikr accounts. That should be doable by
February. The personas, workflow, wireframes (or beyond) could be discussed
at the conference. That, I think, would be an interesting discussion.

Oleh


On Dec 10, 2007 1:52 PM, Sebi Tauciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> They both sound like great ideas, but maybe with different sized scopes.
> The question is: how much time is needed for the Wikipolitics? Is it a
> bigger project than what Michael was thinking? If yes, would we benefit from
> a small victory on a smaller project before tackling a bigger project?
>
>   On Dec 10, 2007 10:03 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >   On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all -
> > >
> > > I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to
> > > contribute something positive to the world at large, either by
> > > improving some system that people use for some positive social
> > > impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better
> > > information design.
> > >
> >
> > Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for
> > solving
> > social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics. Instead
> > of
> > voting once in two or four years (or not being able to vote)
> > create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to
> > participate
> > in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual.
> >
> > Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics
> > here
> > (by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading):
> > http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/
> >
> > Perhaps Politicopia.com  could be redesigned
> > with the global, more generic
> > framework in mind.
> > Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used?
> >
> > Oleh
> >   
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Sebi Tauciuc]

They both sound like great ideas, but maybe with different sized scopes.
The question is: how much time is needed for the Wikipolitics? Is it a
bigger project than what Michael was thinking? If yes, would we benefit from
a small victory on a smaller project before tackling a bigger project?

On Dec 10, 2007 10:03 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all -
> >
> > I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to
> > contribute something positive to the world at large, either by
> > improving some system that people use for some positive social
> > impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better
> > information design.
> >
>
> Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for
> solving
> social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics. Instead of
> voting once in two or four years (or not being able to vote)
> create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to
> participate
> in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual.
>
> Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics
> here
> (by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading):
> http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/
>
> Perhaps Politicopia.com could be redesigned with the global, more generic
> framework in mind.
> Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used?
>
> Oleh
> 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] When those who know little about Usability offer Usability Services

[Pedro Soares Neves]

I'm also from Lisbon, and I know Bruno.

 

The Design associative scene in Portugal it's very recent and don't
have a clear structure. 

 

Within this context the APPU association it's a good initiative but
due to the absence of associative basis in terms of a more broad
design association culture, survives with a very paused heart beat,
and unfortunately at a closed circuit.

 

At some time ago I have decided to organise a series of meetings
around the Interaction design concepts, and there are some interest,
we already meet once, and there's some expectative about the follow
ups feed into a mailing list of 35 professionals at this moment.

 

Me and other people that already have some curiosity around the
interaction design issues in Lisbon and the developments will welcome
Bruno for moving more meetings and to clarify the IxDA face to face
Lisbon structure.

 

All the best.



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[David Malouf]

I think interaction08 is really going to be amazing. I'm not just
saying that b/c I've put in 100's of hours into its creation (See
Dan's recent interview on Boxes & Arrows for more:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/interactions-08-in

I'm saying it because I look at the content, format, setting, and
people and I can't really imagine a better conference. 

For people in NYC, I'm putting my money where my mouth is on this
one as well. Register at tomorrow night's holiday part
(http://ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23021) and I buy you a drink.

I explain why I feel so strongly in my blog: 
http://synapticburn.com/more.php?id=273_0_1_0_C

There are lots of other options out there. I think the corporate
conferences though right now tend to be better than the rest of the
organizational conferences. UIE puts on a heck of a show and I have
only hears amazing things about Adaptive Path's stuff and good
things about NN/G's stuff.

If I had to go the organizational route, IA Summit for webbies is
great. And I mean, It's Miami this year Not Florence, but
definitely better than most other places.

Further afield and more HCI is DIS, and then there are the many many
other sigchi sponsored conferences.

Yes, UPA is missing from my list. Never been, never heard great
things about it except from those who belong to that community
already. Community is a great reason to go to a conference, BTW.


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[Eva]

The two that come to mind immediately are the UPA conference and the IA Summit.

-eva



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[IxDA Discuss] JOB - Chair of Graduate Design - Detroit - RitaSue Siegel Resources on behalf of The College for Creative Studies - Full Time (9 months)

[Carey, Jessica]

Title: Chair of Graduate Design

Organization: College of Creative Studies (CCS)

Reports To: Director of Graduate Studies

 

Position Summary

CCS seeks candidates for the position of Chair of Graduate Design. This
is a unique opportunity for an interdisciplinary design leader with
expertise in an area of interaction design to shape and lead an
innovative new graduate design program. The position is a nine month
appointment. He/she will work closely with the Director of Graduate
Studies, the Dean of the College, the Design Advisory Board and relevant
faculty to implement, administer and lead the program. 

 

Responsibilities

* Develop Graduate Design curriculum (see description below)

* Form industry partnerships

* Ensure the quality of student work

* Teach two graduate-level courses per semester

* Assist in the Graduate Design admissions process

* Manage faculty and department budget

* Advise Graduate Design students

 

Candidate Requirements

* Understands design in a broad cultural context

* Understands design as an integrated strategic business
function for creating meaningful experiences through all media: digital,
3-D form, visual communications, environments and services and as a
driver of differentiation and innovation

* Talented, trained, experienced professional with deep
theoretical and practical design knowledge and with expertise in an area
of interaction design

* Experience in the business of design from a management
perspective

* Excellent reputation in the design and/or interactive
industries

* Systems approach to relate and integrate learning across
disciplines

* Multidisciplinary background, collaboratively working on cross
functional design teams

* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work
effectively as a team leader 

* Teaching experience (preferred but not required) 

* Master's degree (or documented equivalent for international
candidates) in a design or related discipline

 

To Apply

Submit letter of interest, resume, portfolio of work, and portfolio of
students' work (if available) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attached files
should not exceed 3MB per email.

 

Organization Overview

The College for Creative Studies (CCS) is one of the nation's leading
art and design colleges enrolling over 1,300 undergraduate students in
world-class facilities with superior technology resources. CCS currently
has twelve undergraduate departments include Animation, Advertising
Design, Graphic Design, Crafts, Fine Arts, Illustration, Interior
Design, Photography, Art Education and Industrial Design. The CCS campus
is located in a downtown cultural district which includes the Detroit
Institute for the Arts. This location provides an urban laboratory for
the study and application of design to projects in the public realm
including environmental sustainability, urban infrastructure and
education.

 

Graduate Program

In the fall of 2008 CCS is launching a graduate studies program which
will grant Masters of Fine Art Degrees with two areas of specialization:
Design and Transportation Design. The Graduates Studies program at CCS
will offer a new approach to graduate design education-one based on the
conviction that the most effective designers are those who have a firm
grasp of the fundamentals of business and the world in which design
operates. The program will integrate design, cultural and business
issues in the development of commercially-oriented design solutions.

 

The Design specialization has been developed to attract applicants with
backgrounds in either 2D or 3D design. Global in outlook, it will reach
out to a rich international mix of students from many countries and
cultures with experience in a wide range of industries. The core design
curriculum for both areas of specialization encompasses design research,
interaction design and team-based, collaborative learning. Graduate
students will take business courses through partnership with premier
business schools, such as the Ross School of Business at the University
of Michigan. Building on CCS' strong corporate partnerships, students
will participate on collaborative teams in industry-sponsored studios. 

 

Jessica Carey

Marketing Director

RitaSue Siegel Resources

an Aquent company

162 Fifth Avenue, 11th floor

New York, NY 10010 

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T + 212 682 2100 (office)

T + 212 367 2306 (direct)

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Report
 

 

RitaSue quoted in Business Week's article: Wanted: VP's of Design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bad Changes In The New GMail Version

[Chris Maissan]

I've also noticed a new "Inbox" button in the email header with an "X" icon.
Visually it appears to be a single button, but is actually two. 

"Inbox" returns me to the list of emails in my inbox, while the X "removes
the inbox label". Once the "inbox label" has been removed the email vanishes
from my inbox. A dialog informs me that it has been "archived", but there is
no reference anywhere in the UI to an archive. 

It's unfortunate. I've always liked the Gmail interface.

Chris




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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Oleh Kovalchuke]

More on Wikipolitics:
http://www.socialtext.net/wikinomics/index.cgi?wikis_and_politics

On Dec 10, 2007 1:03 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all -
> >
> > I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to
> > contribute something positive to the world at large, either by
> > improving some system that people use for some positive social
> > impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better
> > information design.
> >
>
> Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for
> solving social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics.
> Instead of voting once in two or four years (or not voting at all)
> create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to participate
> in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual.
>
> Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics
> here (by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading):
> http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/
>
> Perhaps Politicopia.com  could be redesigned with
> the global, more generic framework in mind.
> Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used?
>
> Oleh
>
>

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Oleh Kovalchuke]

On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to
> contribute something positive to the world at large, either by
> improving some system that people use for some positive social
> impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better
> information design.
>

Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for solving
social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics. Instead of
voting once in two or four years (or not being able to vote)
create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to participate
in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual.

Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics here
(by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading):
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/

Perhaps Politicopia.com could be redesigned with the global, more generic
framework in mind.
Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used?

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bad Changes In The New GMail Version

[Matthew Nish-Lapidus]

in response to the original comments about the new address
book/contacts in gmail... i actually like it.  yes, there is more
going on and there are a lot of different content panes, but it now
acts like all other desktop address book software and offers all of
their features, which makes me happy.  it means that i can (finally)
move my full address book into gmail.



On Dec 10, 2007 2:12 PM, Christian Crumlish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also find that Gmail no longer remembers my frequent recipients for
> autocomplete purposes, forcing me to break my flow and dig their
> address our via search.
>
> Other problem include when scrolling to the next or previous message
> not being put at the top of the page. Several other minor annoyances.



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Re: [IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[Oliver Green]

David said: "Oliver, do you mean HCI as specifically the academic
research disciplines that combine computer science and cognitive
psychology, or do you mean HCI as in User Experience/UCD etc.?"

Actually it would be great to know conferences in both areas!


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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bad Changes In The New GMail Version

[Christian Crumlish]

I also find that Gmail no longer remembers my frequent recipients for
autocomplete purposes, forcing me to break my flow and dig their
address our via search.

Other problem include when scrolling to the next or previous message
not being put at the top of the page. Several other minor annoyances.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[Russell Wilson]

Interaction08!!
http://interaction08.ixda.org/



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> Hello all,
>
> Other than ACM SIG CHI conference, what are some other top conferences in
> HCI?
>
> Thanks,
> Oliver
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[David Malouf]

Oliver, do you mean HCI as specifically the academic research
disciplines that combine computer science and cognitive psychology,
or do you mean HCI as in User Experience/UCD etc.?



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[IxDA Discuss] top HCI conferences

[oliver green]

Hello all,

Other than ACM SIG CHI conference, what are some other top conferences in
HCI?

Thanks,
Oliver

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[IxDA Discuss] Fwd: Video of an internal Yahoo! talk on our pattern library

[Christian Crumlish]

-- Forwarded message --

I know some folks around these parts have asked me about how we
currently manage things in the Yahoo design pattern library. I
recently gave a brown bag at work talking about some IA reorgs to the
site and some updates to our process, and so on, and we just got it
cleared to post (most of) it to the YDN Theater series, so I thought
I'd post a link to my blog entry about it here for anyone interested:

http://xianlandia.com/te-amo/2007/12/07/as_promised_my_pattern_library_talk.html

 x'^~

p.s.: Apologies for the cross-post to people also on the IAI members list.

p.p.s: also, note that I included a shout-out to the Patterns topic at
http://gamma.ixda.org/

p.p.p.s.: also, also, the video is cross-posted at
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/12/07/pattern-library-brown-bag/ where
one of the commenters thought I was being snarky about Ajax (except I
loves me some Ajax!) and another thought this was not useful or
interesting for people outside Yahoo (although I'm constantly peppered
with questions about exactly this - how we manage the library and
review new patterns here), so I kind of chalk that up to the fact that
the yuiblog audience is largely developers looking for coding insights
and not so much designers.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] discount usability testing on the web // personas

[Moore, Kathleen E]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:32 PM, David Cortright wrote:

 

> Does anyone have experience with http://www.usertesting.com/ or other 

> similar services?

 

What's strikingly missing is the notion of anything like personas: model
users chosen to resemble the ones who most need to use your site
successfully. These "People who are especially good at usability
testing" may or may not ressemble the people you want to build for.

 

Kathy

 

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Bad Changes In The New GMail Version

[Lisa deBettencourt]

I love gmail but have gone back to the previous version because of the
feature where when you hover over someone's name, you get this GIANT contact
card which obscures half of the content of the email below it. This is
especially painful when I'm reading the IxDA list. I click on someone's name
to collapse their post to read the next one but the contact card for the
original person covers the top of the second post (and so on). Argh.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Rik]

Hi Everyone,

I'ts been a while since this topic was started but there's
something you guys might be interested in.

At Eight Media (Arnhem - NL) we are always looking for the best tools
in prototyping. 
We've tried alot of different tools from software (omnigraffle) to
paper and whiteboards.

Working on a whiteboard I thought it would be cool if we had little
web-objects you could drag around, for placement and best practises.
I started looking around for these magnets but couldn't find a
manufacturer.
When asking around, I found more webdevelopers would find these
magnets a good tool to use.

So I've started printing form-objects on flexible magnets.
Last month I've launched: www.guimagnets.com to see if more people
would be interested.

I am really curious on the response and feedback on this project and
want to ask you to give your thought on it.

My goal is to:
- Create (the best) magnets with GUI-objects on them, for designers,
development-teams, geeks and their kids :)
- Supply differents sets (form-objects, web-icons, web-objects,
banner-sizes, navigation-objects etc.)
- Add a whiteboard-like material (so you can write on the magnets)
- Listen to user-feedback in order to create the best solution.

Please let me know what you think of the idea and give me some
feedback and thoughts in order to improve the quality of the product.

Cheers!

Rik Schot

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA give-back

[Sebi Tauciuc]

Very good idea and it seems nicely implemented on catalogchoice.org.
Anything available for the rest of the world? :)

PS. Very interesting how on many web sites, the only way to find out the
geographical scope of the project is to go to the Register page and see if
there is a 'Country' drop-down. But this is for another thread :)


> Check out http://www.catalogchoice.org/
>
>


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