Richard, I think the question is framed incorrectly. "Sketching" is not about the tools you use, but about the intention you have with those tools. Some may disagree but I have fallen directly on the doctrine that Bill Buxton proposed in his Sketching User Experience book. I also reframed it slightly to suggest that sketching regardless of the tool used has these properties:
1) disposable - not in the sense that it can be thrown out but that it WILL be thrown out. 2) volume (multiplicity) - You need a critical mass of quantity of sketches around the domains you are working on. 3) Roughness - the more refined it is the more it will illicit unintended responses from those that you are share it with I'm going blank at the moment, but if you just use those 3 and you stick w/ the intentionality of question (instead of statement) then you are sketching. Now all of that together usually leads people to paper and pen(cil). But as I said the tool is not the point. If you are drawing or even white boarding and you do 1 or 2 and then done, you are not sketching in the design process sense, but only in the type of drawing style sense. But that's my take on this. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48924 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
