A post by Bloomington’s Flash guru Derek Franklin introduced me to the CommonCraft Show yesterday. Now, I’m anxiously awaiting the next video installment of their technology education series.
Consultants Lee and Sachi LeFever call the format paperworks—”lofi is the new hifi”—which uses paper mockups, a white board and hand gestures with a voice-over explanation of how some of these modern Web 2.0 services and platforms work. I still think some of my relatives would have to watch a few times to really get it, but the simplicity and the presentation are very polished and straightforward.
Here are their current offerings, every one of them worth your time:
5 replies on “CommonCraft”
I watched the boomarking video last night and underpowered my previous video and paper prototypes were. This “paperworks” format is a beautiful marriage of lo-fi prototyping strategies.
It’s a good thing design is derivative, because I can’t wait to use this method myself.
Here is another one Common Craft did for Google Documents, which just launched Presenter.
The Paperworks videos are a hit. CommonCraft seems to be getting some commissions to do specific apps, rather than the general explanations they started with.
Here is on on CFL lightbulbs. They also did one for a FB app for wetPaint.
Along with this kind of video primer, here is a nice little overview of some Web 2.0 buzzwords (including “Web 2.0”), in case you are looking for the nutshell version of something.
Well, the inevitable genre spoof has emerged.
New Media Douchebags in Plain English (by KommonKraft)