[Year 12 IT Apps] Informatics: Brainstorming software

[Mark]

Informatics includes ways of generating design ideas, including techniques
like brainstorming.

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.

​"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.

"That’s definitely a great way to use a 12.9-inch iPad, except for one
thing: *64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it
with pen and paper*."

"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...
"Some designers agree: Nothing beats a low fidelity set of tools when
you’re trying to think quickly..."
​ <http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/>
Read more
<http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/>
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.

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​Poor old PERT is not in the new study design.​

Mark Kelly



mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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