To form a deep understanding of the present; we need to find and engage history. We present an informal history capture and retrieval mechanism for collaborative, earlystage information design. This history system is implemented in the context of the Designers' Outpost, a wall-scale, tangible interface for collaborative web site design. The interface elements in this history system are designed to be fluid and comfortable for early-phase design. As demonstrated by an informal lab study with six professional designers, this history system enhances the design process itself, and provides new opportunities for reasoning about the design of complex artifacts. The Designers' Outpost: Collaborative DesignOur history system is built as an extension of the Designers' Outpost [7], a tool that supports information design for the web. In our previous studies into web design, we found that pens, paper, walls, and tables were often used for explaining, developing, and communicating ideas during the early phases of design. Outpost embraces and extends this paper-based practice through a large electronic wall with a tangible user interface (see Figure 1).Users have the same fundamental capabilities in the Outpost system as in a paper and whiteboard system. One can create new pages by writing on new Post-it notes, add them to the electronic wall and organize a site by physically Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
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