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Reader Reviews: Designbuggy.com

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Tell us what you think! On Monday we invited you all to try out Designbuggy, a new website for organizing your interior design projects. Here's that post. Today we want to find out what you think. Give us your feedback, thoughts, wishes and even link to your pages or other sources that you'd like to highlight.

 
 

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By and large, this is a cool tool. Needs to work out the kinks, but I like where it's going.

Couple thoughts:

It took me awhile to figure out all the features. There should be more of a hand-holding process once you've logged in that helps you get started.

Since there's not a whole lot of items yet, the browse websites tool is really the only browser of value. Does this really need a browse products tool? There's not enough stuff for it.

posted by HenryP on December 19th 2008 at 5:42pm
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Use DesignBuggy for a project, and you will quickly start to get hooked - like that eager anticipation of seeing a great movie preview and not being able to stand it until the movie comes out and you can watch the whole thing.

I wanted to add sources, add feeds, add people who I am working on a current project with, and get going.

The promise of DesignBuggy is exciting - I can't wait for more.

Connect with me on DesignBuggy: Brooks Gibbins.

Full disclosure: I am in investor in and advisor to DesignBuggy.

posted by gibbinb on December 19th 2008 at 5:54pm
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This is neat! Makes me actually want to remodel!

posted by AlexSage on December 19th 2008 at 5:59pm
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I think I will use this as my "memory". I love the way I can organize my different products.
I do wish there was a catagory that I could save all of my "finish" data. I tried adding it as my own catagory, but think that it would be a good addition to the list of items to be saved.

posted by rachelrachel on December 19th 2008 at 6:29pm
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Yes, an addictive site--as said above it's sometimes difficult to figure out how to use all the features & I had some difficulty getting items sometimes into my buggy. But I liked being able to add browse various sites and can't wait for more.

posted by timmy jr. on December 19th 2008 at 8:40pm
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Designbuggy is fantastic! I am in the midst of an apartment renovation without using an architect and I have been collecting sources in multiple paper notebooks. This site made it really easy to get organized and see my choices in one place. Using the categories in designbuggy I actually found great solutions and design pieces right away that I had never found on the big search engines. It got me to rethink a few things and my direction has improved. It's an excellent tool.

posted by vksaunders on December 20th 2008 at 9:37am
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Very useful tool, great idea! I love that it let's me save items i find and share them with others. Also being able to see what others are finding is very cool. And a huge time saver for me to use it as an online database to recycle items I have found and saved (as opposed to maybe putting them in folders and having a hard time remembering/searching). Nice beta version, looking forward to actual product roll out. Thanks.

posted by ldgersh on December 21st 2008 at 10:05pm
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Wow, this is a very useful website. Now I have no more excuses not to redesign my interior!

posted by VinnieB on December 29th 2008 at 5:16pm
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I think this is a good tool for collecting all those design things I wanna remember without needing a bookmarking folder tree, but I wish it were faster. I wish i could save it without having to add a category, and filter through all that stuff later.

it would also be interesting to use this to track my own taste trends, with date stamps or something so i could later go back and see what I liked in like last December and see how it's changed now.

posted by i8kermit on January 5th 2009 at 2:48pm
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