Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
we use the guimagnets at times, but have gone to something similar, magnetic whiteboards with cuttable magnetic film, we've created all sorts of shapes with scissors. But we use 4x3 papersheet sized ones for screens so we can insert new ones, move them around, these can be stacked. http://www.magnetking.com/#dryerasemagnet Sadly the guimagnets don't stick to the magnetic film and the whiteboard so can't be combined. And not all whiteboards are magnetic. 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
Sticky notes seem to be a good alternative. There are a lot of
templates using sticky notes to support graphic facilitation
developed by The Grove (http://www.grove.com/site/index.html)
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 -- jet / KG6ZVQ http://www.flatline.net pgp: 0xD0D8C2E8 AC9B 0A23 C61A 1B4A 27C5 F799 A681 3C11 D0D8 C2E8 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
[IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
In the initial stages of brainstorming design, specifically when it comes to reactive changes to the interface, I'm commonly sketching boxes and buttons on graph paper or a white board. Then I started thinking about the playroom I had as a child, and we had a big felt board down there with a large box of various different colours of felt dogs, flowers, birds, trees etc. Just put the little felt character on the board and it would stick. I'm thinking this old-school toy would actually work really well in place of a white board, when you are quickly trying to demonstrate how things will layout and change according to system state. Has anybody seen this in use? Any experience with it? Or have I finally lost my mind? Shaun 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Felt boards
This site sells fridge magnets made to look like GUI controls: http://www.guimagnets.com/ It would be really fun to create your own shapes, maybe using huge sticky notes: http://store.heliotropehome.com/gistnopad.html -Loren - http://acleandesign.com On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Shaun Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: In the initial stages of brainstorming design, specifically when it comes to reactive changes to the interface, I'm commonly sketching boxes and buttons on graph paper or a white board. Then I started thinking about the playroom I had as a child, and we had a big felt board down there with a large box of various different colours of felt dogs, flowers, birds, trees etc. Just put the little felt character on the board and it would stick. I'm thinking this old-school toy would actually work really well in place of a white board, when you are quickly trying to demonstrate how things will layout and change according to system state. Has anybody seen this in use? Any experience with it? Or have I finally lost my mind? Shaun 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
