What is sketching?
In this chapter we will begin by exploring various manifestations of sketching and end by looking at the many ways sketching has been impacted by the grid. Sketching is an explorative tool that can be applied as easily to form-giving as to diagramming research or mapping user interactions, and should not be thought of as a finished artefact but rather as the traces or evidence of an ongoing process.
Psychologist Barbara Tversky writes that “sketches serve to amplify a designer’s imagination and relieve limited-capacity working memory.” Amplification in the face of limited memory resources requires the designer to get still unformed ...
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