Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook

3.6 Slideware for Drawing

exploiting commonly available digital presentation tools for sketch drawing

Paper and pen are fantastic sketching tools. They are cheap, portable, and always on. Best yet, you and your colleagues have years of training (since childhood) and experience using a pencil.

Materials

• PowerPoint or equivalent slideware system

• a watch for timing yourself

• large sheet of paper, table, and pencils

However, digital tools have powers that paper and pencil lack. In particular, you can easily modify sketches made with digital drawing tools, make multiple copies, print them repeatedly, use them as templates, and – as we will see in later chapters – create interactive sequences via animations and linking if the tool allows ...