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Jan 21st / Thursday / '10

The less formal the sketch, the better. In fact, avoid the urge to use a pencil as it leaves too much room for you to ponder, erase, re-draw, second-guess…

But a permanent marker, now you’re talking. A nice big, fat Sharpie is the perfect tool because it requires you to really think through your idea before you put the pen to the paper. “What if it doesn’t work or the layout’s all wrong? ” Great! Grab a new piece of paper and start from where you left off, having learned something valuable in a matter of minutes.

The sketch is not the end goal. The end goal of the drawing process is what you learn while sketching.

- sketch sketch sketch from 52 weeks of ux

indeed.

a habit i picked up in college from my print-based professors was to do thumbnails. so my sketches usually start small and are extremely basic, just rectangles and lines. then i’ll move to a slightly larger size, with just a little more refinement and work it out until i’m ready to sit, flesh out the details and make the final.

one of the reasons it’s so important is that by the time you get to the mockup stage, you have enough to worry about with colors, type, imagery, depth, etc. trying to handle it all at once just can’t produce a good result.

oh, and sketching is fun!