Filed under: Design, Utilities, Productivity
PlanningWiz: plan and share room layouts
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.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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RickLiddle said 4:57PM on 6-25-2008
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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PlanningWiz said 3:43AM on 6-26-2008
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.
Gutter said 9:27AM on 6-26-2008
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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RickLiddle said 9:26AM on 6-26-2008
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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PlanningWiz said 7:14AM on 6-27-2008
@ 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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RickLiddle said 11:31AM on 6-27-2008
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.