| The visual diary/sketchbook is perhaps the most prevalent best practice artifact found across all design disciplines. Many designers keep a visual diary/sketchbook with them at all times. They use it to record and elaborate their ideas, to gather other people’s ideas or artifacts of interest that may inspire future ideas, to ‘doodle’ half-formed thoughts, and to share ideas with others by showing. The visual diary/sketchbook is particularly valuable as it encourages its owners to develop a multitude of ideas and choose between them, rather than to fixate on a single idea. Real progress in developing yourself as a designer will depend on you frequently and habitually sketching out your ideas and their variations, recording other people’s ideas you may see, reflecting and choosing between these ideas, and then further developing those ideas that seem promising. The visual diary/sketchbook records all these, and carrying it with you at all times will help you incorporate sketching and reflection into your daily routines. What is a VISUAL DIARY? CLICK HERE |
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