[Sigia-l] RE: We could just use whiteboards instead.

[Listera]

"Davis.Michael at ic.gc.ca" wrote:

> Though I write faster with a keyboard I find I cannot think as fast with a
> keyboard. Whenever I have to start out on a fairly substantial project I find
> picking up a pen and scratching all over a piece of paper a lot more
> productive than tapping on a keyboard, erasing, and retapping. Is this merely
> my own preference?

Nobody is telling you how to go about generating your own work product. If
you live on a beach and want to draw on sand, that's great. You want to
create your wireframes naked, not a problem in my book. But why bring the
Etch-a-Sketch and crayon set into the boardroom?

If you do want to sketch freehand, you can easily do that digitally. Just
get yourself a 4x5 inch Wacom digital tablet and draw away. The beauty of
this is that a digital tool can even straighten out your doodling into
perfect circles and squares and arrows, if you'd like. They scale up or down
without limits. You can generate an infinite variety of strokes. They print
hi-res on any surface, including archival stock. Coloring is free, too. You
can email them to clients. You can show them in a video conference directly.
You can take advantage of versioning and digital storage. You know, they are
both freehand and *digital.*

Ziya
Nullius in Verba