PlanningWiz: plan and share room layouts
If you're moving to a new place or just want to reorganize furniture in your current living space, PlanningWiz may be helpful by letting you plan and lay out objects in your rooms. Set your room dimensions (you can choose Imperial or Metric system, but for some reason you can't choose Imperial on the first step) and start selecting furniture pieces to begin experimenting.
You can choose furniture from categories like "child's bedroom," "bathroom," and "kitchen," and you can drag-to-resize the furniture objects to match the dimensions of your existing (or future) objects. PlanningWiz also lets you customize the design with color, text, and dimension guides.
The plan can have a custom scale from 1":1' down to 3/32":1'. Plans can be saved to your free account space, printed, or shared via e-mail.
You can choose furniture from categories like "child's bedroom," "bathroom," and "kitchen," and you can drag-to-resize the furniture objects to match the dimensions of your existing (or future) objects. PlanningWiz also lets you customize the design with color, text, and dimension guides.
The plan can have a custom scale from 1":1' down to 3/32":1'. Plans can be saved to your free account space, printed, or shared via e-mail.















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-25-2008 @ 4:57PM
RickLiddle said...
It may be a fantastic app that would change my life forever... But I'll never know because as soon as it resized my browser, I closed the tab.
I'll probably go back to the site and see if I can find a way to give feedback and share the sentiment with them.
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6-26-2008 @ 3:43AM
PlanningWiz said...
Well, without the resize, there is practically no use of the planner, as the work area would be to minor to draw a room, even a smaller one. We prefer this automatically resize to provide the user with the optimum size of the work area, otherwise users might get confused on the usability of the planner.
6-26-2008 @ 9:26AM
RickLiddle said...
I can appreciate the desire to give the user a large workspace, but I still take issue with resizing the user's browser without considering whether there is already a significant work area.
If I may, I'd like to make a suggestion. Before blindly resizing the user's browser, determine the current size of the browser and only resize if it is significantly smaller than the user's screen. I'll reply to the email you sent me in response to my feedback with technical details.
Thanks.
- Rick
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6-26-2008 @ 9:27AM
Gutter said...
Is it just me, or this is the only Flash app I ever saw that has a contextual menu with the RMB? About time!
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6-27-2008 @ 7:14AM
PlanningWiz said...
@ RickLiddle
Following your observations, we have changed the existing settings to be less invasive on users’ default browser size. From now on, the planner detects automatically a browser’s dimensions, and resizes to enlarge them only if they are set too small as to restrain the optimal view/use of the working area.
So, thanks for the constructive feedback!
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6-27-2008 @ 11:31AM
RickLiddle said...
I have to say, I'm beyond impressed. Thanks for listening to my feedback and for engaging me in a positive, constructive manner, especially after I started things off with a negative tone.