[IxDA Discuss] Back to Basics

[Brett Williams]

I use both . . . my good ol' trusty Mac, as well as "old-school" pen  
and paper. In fact, I created a template that I use to quickly get  
those ideas out of my head and onto the paper. It has a browser  
skeleton, with shell navigation, and homemade grid lines . . . I keep  
a stash of these printed sheets handy in my desk, in my briefcase and  
at home . . . you never know when that light bulb will go off!

Also, in response to previous thread . . . I prefer mechanical  
pencils too. :-)

bw

Brett Williams
"Perfectly Middle-Brained"

On Mar 23, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Mark Schraad wrote:

> You just made my friday! I get very tired of the tools/software  
> conversation disrupting my design productivity. Paper and pen is my  
> preference. It contributes to an iterations and "no fears", make  
> the mistake now mentality. I like the committment of a non erasable  
> medium.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Friday, March 23, 2007, at 02:15PM, "Nasir Barday"  
> <nasir at userlicious.com> wrote:
>> I got frustrated with Visio the other day, so I wandered around the
>> office looking for pencils. Lo and behold, there was a stack of
>> unsharpened #2's and an electric sharpener right next to it! I
>> sharpened a few (the last I did that was 7th grade, I think ...) and
>> set to work with a stack of typing paper.
>>
>> Who knew that re-discovering ye old pencil-and-paper would be so
>> refreshing? Now I don't have to waste creative "sparks" on coaxing
>> Visio to give me what I want. Of course, I'm re-drawing it all in
>> Visio to make it look "sharp', but I'd rather wrangle with Visio when
>> I'm reproducing something rather than creating it.
>>
>> Anyway, thought I'd share the happiness. Hope the IA Summit is going
>> well to those of you attending.
>>
>> - Nasir
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