[Year 12 IT Apps] Informatics: Brainstorming software

[Mark]

On 15 September 2015 at 14:50, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Brother Mark, pass me another stylus. I have a note to illustrate before
> the pre-exam wailing starts.
>
> Regards Roland
>
>
​Here you go, Roland.

http://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/​



> 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*."
>
> "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
>
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
> --

Mark Kelly



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