The collection featured subtle coloring, texture, and shadows, with people and animals represented as full figures rather than sticks.īoardmaker Online launched in 2015 as a subscription service level on top of the massive sharing community. A new style of PCS called PCS ThinLine was born. That same year, the company responded to the demand for a more mature graphic style. Today membership is near half a million.Ģ010 saw the introduction of Boardmaker Studio which made creating interactive activities easier and faster. The site, now called, was an overnight success: 1600 people signed up before the site went live. In 2008, Boardmaker launched a free activity sharing site called.

PCS was licensed by dozens of competing companies as the symbol set of choice for their AAC software. Roxie and Terry moved the company out of their home in 1991.īetween 19, Boardmaker and PCS became the leading AAC software and symbol set in the world. Many of the products sold by Mayer-Johnson were printed materials developed by teachers and parents using PCS. Over time, the Boardmaker line of software expanded to include Speaking Dynamically and Writing with Symbols, but always featured a growing collection of PCS. The original Boardmaker program was developed by staff at the Erinoak Hospital in Canada. In 1989, the company celebrated a major milestone: PCS appeared in a computer software program called Boardmaker.