AFTERWORD

AS YOU HAVE have learned in this book, sketching brings agility to your design process, enabling you to quickly study, explore, and communicate your ideas. In both solo and collaborative situations, drawing by hand fosters a broader, deeper understanding of your subject. This ability to clearly express your ideas is essential to effective, compelling design.

Drawing Ideas and other related offerings, such as our Drawing Ideas Workshops, are aimed at kick-starting personal development and promoting a creative, collaborative environment for successful design. We encourage you to use this book as both a source for inspiration and a valuable resource for design technique and strategy—for yourself, your team members, partners, and clients. As you integrate drawing by hand into your design process, consider that it is a fast and direct means to express ideas and enrich collaboration.

As parting advice, we recommend daily drawing practice to develop solid coordination among eyes, mind, and hand. Proficiency and fluidity with drawing takes time and effort. Don’t let this stop you from trying and using drawing in the context of your work. Sketching is not an exclusive skill reserved for the best drawers, and not all drawings have to be of museum quality. The examples we include in this book purposely represent a range of approaches and a variety of resolution. Even the most basic sketches can make a notable difference in clarifying and communicating an idea. What is most important to remember is that drawing by hand supports behaviors (recording, exploring, explaining) that are critical to an effective design process—all the way from project brief to resolution of a final concept.

Go draw.

—William and Mark

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