[Year 12 IT Apps] Informatics: Brainstorming software

[Roland Gesthuizen]

So is a stick in the sand. I do my best drawing and design work at the beach before low tide in bare feet. I have a cousin who likes to chisel her thoughts in marble.

I designed the Yarra Valley Water website on the back of a pizza box and digitised it using a hand scanner. The interesting thing is that it isn’t just that I drew it on a handy bit of cardboard, but that it was digitised, converted to a vector format and further manipulated before printing as an analogue poster and website entry page. (Sending the lads out for more pizza gave me the creative space I needed)

It moved and had a life beyond paper, to digital beyond and back 

In case you are wondering, I scan my whiteboard scribbles, photograph my whiteboard mindmaps then enjoy digitising and sharing via Evernote. 

Perhaps I am like the monks of old, hunched over my iPad, illuminating the manuscript I am penning with a creative, colourful but perhaps unnecessary flourish. You can keep your goatskin unless it comes from a flappy goat simulator.

Brother Mark, pass me another stylus. I have a note to illustrate before the pre-exam wailing starts.

Regards Roland

> On 14 Sep 2015, at 2:20 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
> 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."
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> "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.
> 
> --  
> ​Poor old PERT is not in the new study design.​
> 
> Mark Kelly
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> mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>
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