Covering the Walls
In our Web design group, we spend most of our waking hours looking at things online. This is a matter of necessity, of course, since everything we do ends up online, and also because we collaborate with teams worldwide electronically, frequently via Cisco WebEx Meetings. But sometimes I like to see a panorama of everything we're working on, and there's no better way than to cover the walls with work in progress. So, this is what my office looks like:
For years, I would use masking tape to post different bits of work onto my walls. But that's awkward, because when something new comes in, everything else has to get untaped and rearranged. And since we're often working on a dozen or more big projects at once, it's hard to keep the most important things front and center if last week's project needs to be untaped and moved.
What we needed was a way we could move paper and printouts up or to the side quickly to make way for the latest hot project. And a while back we hit on the idea of mounting transparent "clothes lines" to run across the wall (see below) so we could hang designs from the lines. We use nylon fishing line for this, supported by simple metal mounts and hooks:
Usually, I can just crease the paper and hang it over the top of the nylon fishling line:
In some cases, the work doesn't have enough space at the top to allow us to fold it over, so we can use mini clothespins:
Sometimes, even in a very high tech company, there is room for some low tech!
Feel free to try this yourself and let me know how it works for you!
Photo credit: Chris Patio
Posted by Martin Hardee at 05:55AM PST
CVB Jul 13, 2009
Its sort of like a scene from a movie. But ists actually a great method for teams that oporate better with visual tools.