The nice people at Wolff Olins took Mary Meeker's REIMAGINING Kleiner Perkins deck as an invitation to participation [a lovely concept from Clay Shirky] .
They sketched out some future facing conceps that build on her categories.
Nice and sketchy.
[The word nice originally mean 'precise' making the above sentence oxymoronic, and also the point of this post.
I think.]
A while back, thanks to my buddy Mike, I had the privilege of helping out at the Microsoft Research DESIGN EXPO.
It was awesome. I was helping the teams, design schools from all over the world, giving feedback on their projects and packaging and so on.
You can check out the projects here: MSFT Research Design Expo 2012.
One of the other people giving feedback was the legendary designer Bill Buxton.
[He is one of the pioneers of human computer interaction and user experience design. He literally wrote the book on sketching user experiences. And he is completely awesome.]
One of the most crucial pieces of feedback was about fidelity.
Sketches are supposed to be low fidelity.
If they are too Hi-FI, they aren't sketches, and we parse them differently.
As closed, finished things, not exploratory things to consider.
Sketches are questions, not answers.
[parenthetical postscript:
I also got to have dinner with Jaron Lanier, author of You are Not A Gadget.
He was also brilliant and super nice. He knows a truly incredible amount about loads of things – just like Bill Buxton – especially about really obscure musical instruments.
Here's what I wrote about his book a while ago.
I said basically this to him:
'I loved your book although I don't agree with you.
However, I no longer eat cephalopods, so it clearly made an impact on me.'
He seemed satisfied with this and said he has just finised a new book I can not agree with if I want.]
2 responses to “Sketches From the Reimagination”
“Sketches are questions, not answers” rang particularly true today as I began tightening up a sketch I had made of a product experience. By taking it from my pencil and paper into an Omnigraffle file, I feel like I’m losing a sense of collaboration I really want to have when I share this with the larger team. Methinks I’m gonna go back to a sketch!
🙂
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