This area of the web site contains some (very) simple prototypes we have created to help us bounce around ideas and start discussions.

Story Visualizations
A Man	a simple story about a struggle	44K
Life	a simple story about life	11K
Ma Bell	a historical moving-word story	16K
Story Values	a story told with ups and downs	115K
Story Characters	a story told entirely with characters	30K
Story Base Tools
Lenses	a story tagged with meaningful metadata	14K
Thinking Tools
Board of Directors	what if you could ask the people you respect most?	176K
Concept Words	some concepts and words related to them	250K
Elements	what to do with a group of things	34K

To view these prototypes you will need the Shockwave plug-in from Macromedia. If you don't have it, click here or follow the instructions that appear when you load the prototypes. (If you don't know if you have it, load a prototype and see what happens.) If you are connecting via a modem, it might take a while to load the prototypes. We list here the size of each so you can choose which to load.