The "Online" Inspiration Board

Role Prototype: Description of Purpose and Usage

The Online Inspiration Board is a method of addressing the growing disconnect between a physical inspiration board and the best resources for adding material to an inspiration board. These days the best way to find a large volume of ideas or inspiration is through images searches on the internet, Twitter feeds, or blog feeds—but these feeds and posts can't be easily torn out like they could in a magazine.

With this product, the user would be able to input their favorite inspiration blogs (whether they be design blogs, home improvement blogs, or lolcats for that matter) into the interface, and have a number of LCD screens on the board that would then stream the information from these feeds. (Optimally the screens would be able to pull both text and images from these blog and Twitter posts.) Space would be left for magnet boards and cork board in order to allow the same functionality of an analog inspiration board, so that the user could still pin up any print outs, magazine clippings, swatches, etc that they want to include in their design—this way, they would be able to see the incoming feeds right up against the pieces they've already selected for the feel of their project instead of having to visualize these elements when staring at tabs on a browser.

Each feed's display would also feature an adjacent button that would function as an "interest" button; if the user is interested in reading more about the particular story that's currently featured on the board, they can push the button and have the link to the story or post emailed to them for further review (and potentially for printing out to pin onto a free part of the board.)

Look and Feel Prototype 1: The Overall Board's Appearance

This would be the general lay-out for the board—cork and magnet board with the user's own materials attached to it, surrounding screens with streaming data. These particular photos are low on the display side (I only have the one tiny one at the moment) but some of the magazine clippings can be visualized as larger LCD screens for the purpose of this prototype.

Look and Feel Prototype 2 : The LCD Displays

In order to show what the LCD screens might look like while rotating through feeds, I created some sample graphics and uploaded them to a digital picture frame keychain. These are a few screenshots (albeit a bit fuzzy) of what that might potentially look like once I'm able to either hack the keychain's display or find another method of integrating an LCD display.

Implementation Prototype: Pulling Feed Text from Twitter

My current success hacking the digital image keychain is limited, so for an implementation prototype I wrote a script to pull down the text of the most recent tweet from four different users by adding to (and otherwise modifying) the Twitter Alert code from last week's prototype. This code alerts the user when a new tweet has been posted and then displays the text of that tweet for the user to read.

The Code.

As per usual, the code is not showing up properly on Typepad. To see the full code, you can read it on my documentation blog.

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