Sketches and wireframes

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to talk about…the analog part of data visualization,…and by that, mostly I'm talking about sketches…and wireframes.…How to capture your ideas in their most basic form…before you start really doing your hard design work.…Let me start off by saying that I am a computer guy.…I spend 99% of my time in front of my computer,…and I'm not a Luddite, I'm not against technology…by any stretch of the imagination,…that's really all I do, is technology.…But with that being said, I will say…that when I'm starting doing visualization,…I always start with a pen and paper or a whiteboard,…and I'm going to try to articulate in this video why.…

In some cases, I'm not entirely sure,…but I am totally sure that it's very important to do so.…And by the way, I'm going to take a half a step back…from saying it has to be pen and paper, a whiteboard.…I use an iPad quite frequently these days also,…but it's really more about using it in a very analog way,…and I'll explain more in a second.…There are really four reasons why to go in an analog way,…