I'm a graphic designer turned web designer turned IxDer and I can say the pencil paper thing definitely is core to graphic design. Basically, "Get away from the computer" if you really want to be creative.
As Bill Buxton says in "Sketching User Experiences": "Designers can sketch, non designers can't". That's paraphrasing but basically sketching is the first step to the design and interaction design process. However, we don't show anything less than Balsamiq's to developers, sales or other departments in the company. Makes our ideas look more considered and professional. As for formal documentation, that's the first step to go whether a company does pencil/paper or not (most companies see documentation as a waste of time, grrr!) so I don't see the two things as linked unless you consider a great company will do both. The company I work at has its own clients creating user manuals that we should have created. Not a good look. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42351 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
