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Shades of Grey: Thoughts on Sketching by Will Evans
“I see sketching as an important pre-wireframing technique for doing divergent and transformative design, something that fundamentally differentiates what has been called “big D,” and “small d” design. Not to put too fine a point on it—it is what separates the user experience designers from the wireframe monkeys.”
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Arnold VanAwesomo #wireframe #prototype #ixdsketches http://instagr.am/p/LD2diEyxCh/
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Paper prototype in the works.
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Free (with a tweet) Keynote Mockup Templates for Prototyping Mobile, Web and Desktop Apps
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What is the best iPad stylus? (by TheVerge)
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New Moleskine in red! Going to actually try to use this moleskine for daily sketches.
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Paper by fiftythree.com – An amazing iPad app for sketching out ideas.
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New sketch gear at JetPens: Maruman sketchbooks
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Post-it Scenarios
Scenarios are a great way to demonstrate how a person (customer/user/specific persona) could work through a task in a specific context.
I enjoy using post-its for scenarios of task-flows that haven’t quite been settled on. The post-its make it easy to add, remove and rearrange the plot points to form new stories. It’s also a great way to communicate how two or more scenarios differ. People can easily understand how the complexity of a scenario changes when you have to add five more post-its to the story to complete the same task.
Because these are rough sketches the people you’re working with will better understand that the solutions proposed by each scenario are pliable. This will result in better participation and feedback.
The mantra on IxD Sketches is always that sketching is about approachable communication not creating art.
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Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates
“Sketching and wireframing are a specialized style of drawing, used for fleshing out preliminary complex ideas, group brain-storming, a lo-fi method for evaluating interaction concepts, and as a way of roughly perfecting a design technique.”
This article contains a nice selection of templates to download and print out. Including downloads for ideation sessions, browser templates, storyboards, taskflows, iPhone and Android templates.
