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Cooper Shows How to Do Low Fi Concept Demos

Cooper Interactive's Commuter Buddy concept video is another great find via Dave Malouf's Engage blog. You might have already seen this one, but as Dave points out, it is a great example of using personas, narrative, and really low fidelity sketches to demonstrate a concept.

The video above uses still photography, super-imposed photos of whiteboard drawings, and voice over narrative to describe the idea for a mobile phone application that helps a commuter to get to his ride on time, and even to remember to get off if he becomes engrossed in an article, for instance. Super idea, but what's really great about this is that how easy and inexpensive it probably was for them to produce this video. Good design doesn't need to be big and costly.

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/02/commuter_buddy.html

You may now login with email instead of username

Thanks to @lorenbaxter's suggestion, I've enabled logging in with email rather than username if you prefer. Luckily Drupal's logintoboggan module allows admins to offer this option, as well as offering registration and signup without the roundtrip to email. Sweet. Thanks for making my life easier, Drupal.

This should help ease the experience of finding your file downloads as well if you bought stencils or icons form the store. It also brings me around to re-implementing some of the features I put in in Feb-March last year and then took out, e.g. vote to promote on design and interface submissions. I have a minor redesign planned that hopes to bring that back, but will bring it back for signed in users.