Comments on: Post-it notes

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:45:02 +0000

I am doing a study on post-it notes
for school (I am 11)
Do you have any info?

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:46:04 +0000

Donna, wasn’t there someone from Perth at the UserExperience Conference in June? Maybe s/he just does usability? -Andrew

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:35:50 +0000

Thanks for the tip Joshua - I’ll have a look at Tinderbox.

Beau - there are more and more IAs popping up in Australia, but I don’t know personally of anyone from Perth. I’ll let you know if I come across anyone…

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:12:32 +0000

Elegant Hack pointed to this article about Tinderbox, which I thought might interest you.

“Tinderbox does an incredible job as a note-taking, brainstorming, information-gathering tool, working much like your brain does to allow you to capture, link, and organize ideas in a flash. It really shines as an IA tool. It allows you to quickly prototype maps of information, establishing links between ideas (or pages or nodes), sites, or other files. Tinderbox is the perfect replacement for those “sticky note” sessions so many information architects are used to. Just start brainstorming, get all the elements that need to be on your site in one place, view them in one of five different views, arrange, link –and you’re ready to go. Tinderbox even exports as HTML, so it’s possible to create entire prototype sites from your Tinderbox sessions.”

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:33:59 +0000

I totally agree. I have found they are great from everything from planning, task-lists and time management to “short-term” card-sorts and content categorisation experiments.

It’s one of those times when a simple invention is so much more than it originally appears.

Also great to hear of another Aussie IA - I’m over here in Perth and wondering if there’s anyone else out there!

Beau