The Designers’ Outpost

A Tangible Interface for Collaborative Web Site Design

The Designers’ Outpost is a tangible user interface that combines the affordances of paper and a large physical workspace with the advantages of electronic media to support collaborative information design for the web. Based on an earlier ethnographic study, we have analyzed web site design practice and developed a system to support the practices used by designers during the early phases of information design.

Publications

Video: Main Outpost system (four minutes)

• Windows Media Streaming
• Windows Media Download (28 MB)
• Get Windows Media Player (for Windows and Mac)

Video: Design History (two minutes)

• Windows Media Streaming
• Windows Media Download (11.3 MB)
• Get Windows Media Player (for Windows and Mac)

Talks (Powerpoint)

• Main Outpost System: UIST01, 12 November 2001
• Design History: CHI02, 23 April 2002
• Remote Collaboration: CHI03, 10 April 2003

Software Download

• April 2002

Contact Information

Scott Klemmer
Katherine Everitt
Mark Newman
James Landay
 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0084367 Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).