You can buy magnetic sheets and print out whatever you want at most of the large office supply stores in the USA (Staples and similar stores). They are useful for things like information architecture, menu design, and brainstorming. The same stores now sell 100 magnets in business card size and you can stick labels on those if you are using words or very simple symbols. The magnet sheets recommend that you don't put them through a laser printer - inkjet only on the ones that I've used. There are a number of studies using magnets and stick-ons. The FIDO study by Tom Tullis and colleagues is a good example of the use of magents in design.
http://www.bentley.edu/events/agingbydesign2004/presentations/tedesco_chadwickdias_tullis_fido.pdf You can create nice flow diagrams with a whiteboard and magnet symbols (supplemented with stickies). Chauncey On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Rob Tannen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shaun - You're not out of your mind. Designers and design > researchers have been usng felt boards and similar materials for > years. Best example is Liz Sanders co-creation methods, where > participants use such materials to envision designs of products and > environments (see esp. page 8-11): > > http://www.maketools.com/pdfs/CoCreation_Sanders_Stappers_08_preprint.pdf > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33836 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
