Friday, June 4, 2010

For Want of a Sketchbook

Welcome to a new section of my blog (called the Designer's Sketchbook Project). People
who have frequented my blog for some time have known that I have been publishing reading summaries and reviews for the CS889 Open Source Usability Seminar I am currently taking.

However, this new section will discuss a project that I am beginning to think about which is the possibility of creating a digital sketchbook which designers would carry around with them in lieu of a traditional sketchbook. This sketchbook would be both a hardware and software solution that would be designed to meet the needs of designers, rather than the arbitrary needs of technology/computing.

In these blog posts, I would like people's feedbacks on my thoughts about how I envision this digital sketching medium, so that I can begin to put together a specification of what would be the ultimate sketching tool for designers. It is important to realize that I am a Computer Scientist with an interest in User Interface Design, so what may make sense for me will probably not make sense for designers in other fields, and perhaps not even within the UI design field.

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