[IxDA Discuss] Back to Basics

[Gabriel Friedman]

sajid saiyed wrote:

>One aspect is speed. While we are working with computer, we think
>fast, actions don't take so much time. Whereas, working with pen/paper
>requires certain amount of time to put your thoughts on paper.
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I find the opposite to be true. Because pencil and paper are so familiar 
and informal, it takes no effort to begin sketching. With computers, on 
the other hand, there's that slight barrier to free-flowing creativityh 
(at least at the brainstorming stage we're talking about).

I think it has something to do with the fact that once you put something 
on screen, for better or worse it feels a bit "fixed". The poster who 
said that you can tell how a design began its life: visio or 
omnigraffle. Whereas with pencil and paper, both the thought and the 
drawing are easily thrown out and improved on.

Maybe because - at the end of the day - we recognize the computer as 
something foreign, whereas everyone begins drawing before they can crawl!