<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It moved and had a life beyond paper, to digital beyond and back </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In case you are wondering, I scan my whiteboard scribbles, photograph my whiteboard mindmaps then enjoy digitising and sharing via Evernote. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brother Mark, pass me another stylus. I have a note to illustrate before the pre-exam wailing starts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards Roland</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Sep 2015, at 2:20 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Informatics includes ways of generating design ideas, including techniques like brainstorming. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">"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.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><br class="">"That’s definitely a great way to use a 12.9-inch iPad, except for one thing: <b class="">64 percent of designers don’t brainstorm with software. They do it with pen and paper</b>."<br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">"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...</font></div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">"Some designers agree: Nothing beats a low fidelity set of tools when you’re trying to think quickly..."<br clear="all" class=""></font><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/" class=""></a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/sorry-apple-turns-designers-dont-use-ipads/" class="">Read more</a> 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.</font></div><br class=""></div>-- <span style="font-size:12.6667px" class=""> </span><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Poor old PERT is not in the new study design.</div><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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