Sweeping away disorder with the broom alignment tool

Jason Robbins, Michael Kantor, David Redmiles
1999 CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems - CHI '99  
Design diagrams play an important role in many disciplines. Many types of diagrams use spacing and alignment to communicate implicit relationships between objects within the diagram. We describe and evaluate a direct manipulation alignment tool based on a push-broom metaphor.
doi:10.1145/632870.632871 fatcat:cwdy5h4kvve23dbjvlmg3om63y