About 10 years ago when I was making my own magnets, "blank" fridge
magnets were much cheaper at craft stores than at office supply stores
and there was a wider range of sizes/shapes.
Chauncey Wilson wrote:
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
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