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developers, using those scenarios as the contexts for their questions. Walny et al. (2011)
interviewed eight graduate students and academics who use sketches as part of their
soware development and analyzed the life cycles and transitions of example sketches
as part of the soware development process. e studies of sketching in soware design
are strongly resonant with the more general literature, which they typically cite, artic-
ulating sketching as part of a process of design exploration. Cherubini et al. (2007)
summarize a fra ...