<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Informatics includes ways of generating design ideas, including techniques like brainstorming. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Luddites, rejoice. In The Real World (TM) pen and paper are still alive and well, according to the creator of Adobe's new brainstorming software.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">"IN BETWEEN ANNOUNCING a Hermès-branded Apple Watch and another incremental improvement to the iPhone during its big event in San Francisco this week, Apple snuck in an Adobe demo. It came during presentation of the iPad Pro, and showed some of the ways digital creators will be able to do even more with their tablet. Hint: it involves using software like Adobe’s new CC brainstorming tool.<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br>"That’s definitely a great way to use a 12.9-inch iPad, except for one thing: <b>64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it with pen and paper</b>."<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"The survey shows that in certain categories, brainstorming in particular, “software hasn’t solved [designer’s] problems,” says Vinh [the survey's creator]. This is particularly relevant to Vinh, who created Adobe CC, the brainstorming tool shown onstage at Apple’s event Wednesday, with Adobe before going full-time. That so many designers prefer pen and paper “suggests that they feel like they have the freedom of being able to very loosely iterate,” he says...</font></div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"Some designers agree: Nothing beats a low fidelity set of tools when you’re trying to think quickly..."<br clear="all"></font><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/"></a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/">Read more</a> about what's in the ultimate designer's toolbox for brainstorming and other tasks, like project management. Remember - by popular demand Gantt is back in 2016.</font></div><br></div>-- <span style="font-size:12.6667px"> </span><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Poor old PERT is not in the new study design.</div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ"><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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