Today we relearned to draw by doing timed activities. We also looked at user flows and collaborated on a PlantCo teamwork activity.

Firstly, it was mentioned to go back to paper for sketching interfaces.

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• Sketches are not prototypes
• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

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Why Paper?

• Iterate quickly
• Paper is low-cost and faster than Photoshop, Figma, XD
• It saves itself
• It enables collaboration
• Paper = Fast thinking

The 5 Basic Elements:

• Circle
• Square
• Triangle
• Line
• Dot

Speed Drawing Exercises

In class, we did an exercise where we draw the same 6 things, three different times. One in 20 seconds, another in 10 seconds and the last one in 5 seconds. You can tell that with less time the detail and accuracy drops off. This exercise taught us that sometimes all it takes is to spend 10 to 15 more seconds drawing something to really get the idea across.