I'm experimenting with making magnets of some of the elements of the Wireframe Stencil to use for prototyping. Was an interesting experiment printing and cutting these. Next time I think I'll have to laminate the sheet first, and then cut. The lamination might make it possible to write on them with dry erase marker. If you write directly on the magnet sheets the ink will stay permanently I'd think. The surface seems kind of porous and a little textured.
When I get a version that seems to work, I'll post PDFs to the Tools section that you can download for free, or as donationware. You can then print on Avery 3270 Magnet Sheets.
As always a great idea, I could see these being used in a meeting. Paper prototyping meets magnetic protoyping:)
It's certainly not an original idea, and you can buy similar products. I don't think it replaces sketching and paper prototyping. But I've taken hybrid approaches to prototyping in the past using some flexible sketched parts on both opaque paper and vellum, and some templated parts that were printed. This might add to my toolbox.
A brilliant fungible solution. I like it. It's playful and flexible.
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