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U of M School of Information Design Jam

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Hi - I am Barb Hernandez, the User Experience Manager at TechSmith. I manage a team of designers and researcher who work with the product teams here at TechSmith.

Recently I had the opportunity to spend an evening with a group of graduate students at University of Michigan's School of Information (SI). These students are studying, among other things, Human Computer Interaction. Each month they get together for a Design Jam where they work on a design problem for a local company or organization. At our jam session, students looked at the concepts we have for sharing content on Screencast.com: Media Roll, Playlists and Folders, but focused on the idea of the "Playlist" as a mechanism for sharing content when that content is organized in more than one folder on Screencast.com. They also tackled the differences between sharing and viewing shared content.

During the session the group reviewed the design problem in detail then broke into smaller groups to brainstorm and mock up potential solutions. Each team had great ideas to improve the workflow, simplify the concepts and generally make it easier to create, share and view content.

Some pictures of the design ideas from each of the 5 groups can be found here: http://www.screencast.com/t/NspigGSSXC.

Please feel free to add your thoughts or feedback on these ideas or even add your own solution. More details about each solution is in the comments section for each group's design ideas.

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I just did a screencast using Jing. I forgot to copy the URL to upload it to my screencast folder. I named it "Example of a screencast" and sent it to screencast.com at around 9:45AM Pacific time on June 4, 2009. Is there anyway it can be uploaded to my folder?

Sandra Read

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Att: Ms. Barb Hernandez

Dear Barb,

We are a non-profit organization that teaching financial illiteracy through out the Spanish speaking world. Would your team of students be interested in doing out site as a project, to review and make suggestions on "how we can" be more effective in our communication?

I am getting ready soon to build a separate website.

Thank you for you time and consideration. Please cc my personal emil when you repsond at sam@samfotos.com

Kind regards,
Sam Rodriguez

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Wow .. those are very dedicated students, they should go far. Its a great idea to bounce ideas off of other designers, especially for the sake of information design.

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Its a great idea to bounce ideas off of other designers, especially for the sake of information design.

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