

Instead, if you have the fortune of being able to metabolize concepts and ideas in a design, most likely you’ll forget something important, with the result of having to put your hands on the layout again for the second time.

it helps us organize large amounts of information into manageable pieces that we can design around. Sketching offers something unique to web designers. This often means more work later on, fixing what could have been done right the first time with just a bit of work sketching. The problem is the quantity of information we have to consider! We defined that in the homepage we have to put a slider and a visible call-to-action which invites to a contact, the pages of the site will be seven and we must also include the latest news in the homepage and so on.Īt this point, I assure you, opening Photoshop with the pretension of creating an effective layout is useless without a plan for what you have to draw in the detail, you’ll be blocked and forced to essentially design without enough foresight to make intelligent decisions. We know the preferences and needs of our client On this basis we should be able to set the layout we have to design. Imagine this scenario: We have just finished an exhausting briefing with our client and now it’s the moment to rearrange the ideas.

Sketching As Part of the Planning Process With this article we’ll treat an argument that certainly many of you will have at heart: we’ll see in fact how sketching can help us arrange the ideas, design an effective layout and – why not- give a fresh and original touch to our design. I’m talking about making pen, pencil and paper a part of the creative process that other "non-digital" designers have been using for ages: sketching. Yet, in the middle of this digital era, the best allies of a web designer are common tools that can be bought with the change under your couch cushions. 20 examples of great "sketch" inspired sites included! We are all part of the generation that need a mouse to leaf through an album with the family photos (goodbye to dear family albums with the pages left to yellow) and Facebook to send birthday wishes to a friend.

We spend good part of our time in front of a monitor, most likely we have more than one computer, not mentioning iphones, graphic tablets and all the other ultra modern devilries that invade our desks.
