Dear Don,
Thanks for your comments on drawing. I concur. Many styles and traditions of drawing or sketching help us to develop our thoughts, mental models, intuitions, and creative ideas.
There is also an added layer in which drawing and sketching help us to present and represent ideas to others as a conversational or presentation tool.
Larry Leifer at Stanford’s ME310 makes sure that design students have access to tools and materials within a ten-second reach to swiftly model and prototype ideas in physical form. To my way of thinking, this is 3-dimensional sketching.
I used to draw on 3-dimensional objects as a metaphorical way of moving ideas around in time and space. Lately, I use mind maps – I should probably draw more.
Yours,
Ken
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Don Norman wrote:
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I believe that sketching is powerful. I draw a lot in my notebooks. Crppy drawings, but they use space and time and line weight and etc. I use arrows and boundary lines. Idea clouds and other sumbols. Spatial laout is very important to me – it aids my thinking. Maybe it IS my thinking.
I’m in a wonderful hotel in Shanghai, wonderful ecxept for really, incredibly bad internet. So I have to stop.
But I have talked with Barbara Tversky and Steve Kosslyn (and Ken, our Ken) about exploring the role of drawing and sketching on human thought and creativity.
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