We have been heads down lately working on V2 of the ConceptShare interface and I want to share with you an example of how we are using ConceptShare internally to get the job done quickly.

With some bugs or changes you can get away with email or textual bug trackers with screens attached. I personally think it is much easier and faster to use ConceptShare. We built this tool for almost exactly this purpose and it maybe how a 3 person startup could launch an application so quickly.

In the first example you can see that I can quickly illustrate a change in the application visually. I need to make the developers understand a very specific visual change and the intended result without interrupting their work flow or scheduling a meeting. I usually upload 5-7 of these at one time. The change is that the zoom tool is too close to the menu side and I would like a bit more padding. Most bugs/visual changes are more complicated than this is a quick example.

I can’t even imagine describing this change in email or text but it might go something like this.

“Hi Guys,

The zoom slider is off a bit a bit too close to the menus and needs to be shifted to the side a few pixels I am not sure how many.

Bernie”

Responses:

” The whole slider or just part of it?

How many pixels?

Too close to which menu?”

ConceptShare reply feature enables an unlimited number of questions from development or beta testers with easy management and NO MEETINGS.

The other neat thing we are doing is using the Concept Folders feature to drag and drop concepts into the Done Folder or into the appropriate folder for each development team the Workspace or Web Manager. The entire team is in the workspace and have their opinion about various visual changes to be made before they are implemented.

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Guy had an interesting featuring a visual periodic table of elements. It’s pretty neat in that it interactive but would be nice to post on a wall as well. Man, is there really that many visualization methods? Maybe one day ‘ConceptSharing’ will be on that table. I think it would fit nicely in the “Concept Visualization’ area under Interactive Concept Visualizations…But thats just me.

From blog.guykawasaki.com: 

“ Check out this excellent compilation of visualization methods called “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.” This came to my attention via a convoluted path from BoingBoing (who thanks Mike Love) to Seth Godin to Acorn Creative. Ralph Lengler and Martin J. Eppler created it. You might also enjoy reading their paper, entitled “Towards a Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management“

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