{"id":940,"date":"2017-05-17T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/feedback\/?p=940"},"modified":"2017-07-02T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:32:37","slug":"flash-feedback-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/feedback\/2017\/05\/17\/flash-feedback-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Feedback Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings all! I am Rob McKenzie, Level 3 judge and Regional Coordinator of the USA-North region. I\u2019m here today to talk about a nifty item I\u2019ve used at a couple events, Flash Feedback Cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have been at a recent show with me, you have probably run across these – I\u2019ve given them out to judges to distribute at GP Indy, GP Milwaukee, the most recent Minnesota RPTQ, and the SCG Open in Indy. I\u2019ve also used them to provide feedback at several different shows where I did not give them to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

This article will delve into I came up with the idea, how I\u2019ve envisioned them being used, and the cool uses I\u2019ve seen people put them to.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Idea<\/span><\/h2>\n

One of the things I do when I am bored is search for ways to directly produce things. \u00a0I worked for Steve Port of Legion Supplies for a while, and he tries to go down to bedrock and produce items – you can see this in play with Legion Supplies, where he started making sleeves and deckboxes for GPs, and then just kept doing so to make money. I kind of picked up the \u201cmake stuff\u201d bug from Steve and never lost it.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I have a folder of random things like <\/span>4imprint <\/span><\/a>for producing regional judge swag, and I had been kicking around some personal project ideas using a site called <\/span>SuperiorPod.com<\/span><\/a> to produce cheap board game cards that look nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was doing some math for this and, using their standard\/poker size card printing options, the numbers were super cheap to do reasonably sized runs of cards, with 18 to a print sheet. \u00a0I just needed something I wanted to make.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat on that idea for a while, and then I saw <\/span>Riki\u2019s post about flash feedback<\/span><\/a> – giving super short feedback that is just meant to hit one specific thing for feedback. It all kind of clicked – why not make a feedback form that could only be used for a short piece of feedback?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cool idea, but notecards are cheap. How are these going to be better than just giving out notecards with instructions to write notes on them?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Implementation<\/span><\/h2>\n

Well, tokens are sweet! Everybody uses them. I even use token-sized cards for personal business cards and people love those.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"So I decided to use my business card template I had made for the fronts, and throw some tokens on the side not used for feedback. I just needed art. \u00a0I went spelunking through art from over a century ago, and stumbled on color lithographs. They are over a century old, in the public domain, and super amusing in some cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a few hours pouring through a handful of sites and ended up with a couple dozen images I wanted to look at. The sloth was obvious. The giraffe was too amusing not to use. It was close to Thanksgiving, so I grabbed a turkey. I wanted a faux-servo, so I grabbed a printing press. I thought one of the flowers was pretty and made it a faux-plant. I should have held off on the knight, but he was amazing and had an unbelievable hat, so I included him (I made Exemplar tokens this last wave, and would have loved to use the knight for them).<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the image (downsized) I used for the uncut sheet front:<\/p>\n

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I put together an order of 40 \u201csheets\u201d, so 120 of each image, a total of 720 cards. \u00a0This cost $86.59 after shipping. \u00a0Pretty cheap, all told.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beta Testing<\/span><\/h2>\n

I gave packets to all the judges at GP Milwaukee, along with North Region Judge notebooks and pens, without much explanation as to how to use them, just a \u201cuse these to give feedback!\u201d \u00a0I was leery of giving super tight instructions that would lock people into making only specific use of them. I wanted people to use them as they wanted to use them.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the show, I asked for feedback on the flash feedback cards, and the most actionable pieces of feedback I got were:<\/span><\/p>\n