{"id":215,"date":"2009-04-29T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-04-29T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:31:52","slug":"in-defense-of-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"In defense of sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a strong advocate of sketching as a critical and fundamental design skill, as noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=207\">here<\/a>. For me, sketching is not cool artwork, but a great rapidly visual way of processing information, working through problems, exploring lots and lots of ideas very quickly and fluidly. It&#8217;s not about &#8220;the perfect drawing&#8221; at all, which I think perplexes some IxD&#8217;ers (mainly those from HCI or CS, i think?) for some reason who refuse to sketch or think it&#8217;s not in their purview to do so. How can one design solutions without sketching (even if you&#8217;re designing systems\/services\/processes, etc.)? <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonsantamaria.com\/about\/\">Jason Santa Maria<\/a> iterates this point with his wonderfully concise and visually appropos posting <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonsantamaria.com\/articles\/pretty-sketchy\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a strong advocate of sketching as a critical and fundamental design skill, as noted here. For me, sketching is not cool artwork, but a great rapidly visual way of processing information, working through problems, exploring lots and lots of ideas very quickly and fluidly. It&#8217;s not about &#8220;the perfect drawing&#8221; at all, which I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In defense of sketching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}