Comments on: Appreciating Common Craft’s “paperworks” sketchcasts

By: Lee LeFever reflects on the CommonCraft style « Jon Udell

Lee LeFever reflects on the CommonCraft style « Jon Udell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:39:02 +0000

[...] I mentioned here, and as we also discuss in the interview, the CommonCraft style shares some DNA with the practice [...]

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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:30:35 +0000

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By: Britt Watwood

Britt Watwood — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:09:34 +0000

Let me add my kudos. I introduced delicious into my graduate education course as an assignment and the students just were not getting it. I then embedded Lefever’s video into my Blackboard explanation of delicious, and the students were off and running. The assignment only involved exploration of delicious, but ten weeks later, I checked and 22 of 24 were actively tagging. Lefever’s video helped an entire class “get it.”

By: Stocks and flows in online communication: another hat tip to Jerry Michalski « Jon Udell

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:59:50 +0000

[...] LeFever, whose company’s “paperworks” sketchcasts I recently applauded, wrote a series of items elaborating on Jerry’s notion of stocks and flows in online [...]

By: harijay

harijay — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:14:43 +0000

I tried to get my dad to use del.icio.us by watching a screencast I had made. Somehow he did not warm up to the concept. I then sent him Lee Lefevers paper-sketchcast after you talked about it. He was bookmarking in no time.
The moving paper does make it easier to focus your attention to the key concepts . Even zoomed representations of the same gui elements during a screencast dont achieve the same purpose. Maybe this something to do with the way we are wired.

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:52:28 +0000

I love them as well. I’ve been looking for good technique for doing screencasts this week. I’m starting to realize that it’s a lot easier to convey how software works and what value it adds for the user.

By: Lee LeFever (Common Craft)

Lee LeFever (Common Craft) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:51:10 +0000

Thanks so much for the kind and insightful words John. One of the things we’ve learned through the process is that screens introduce noise that interferes with with the message. If we need to show a screen shot, sometimes we’ll print out the screen and chop it up so we can remove the noise – and focus the viewer on only the elements that matter. Now that you mention it, it does a bit like a paper prototype.