>Lindsay is right - "pencil anxiety" is a big problem for >computer scientists when you ask them to pick one up in a public place. >I've encountered this even with groups of senior HCI >researchers, who are completely unable to sketch a proposal >for a user interface when given a pencil and paper.
I once tried to get a group of students to do some role-playing based design exercises. The reaction to this was not good shall we say, so perhaps the answer is to say that if they don't draw they will have to do role play... >But I wonder whether we might better serve the needs of >programmers with a book like "UML on the right side of the brain". >Any takers? Well, putting together a good set of exercises for using drawing might be a good start, in particular where you can give a good rationale for doing them. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
