1.3 The Sketchbook
your basic resource for recording, developing, showing and archiving ideas
The regular use of a sketchbook is perhaps the most prevalent best practice found across all design disciplines. Many designers keep a sketchbook with them at all times. They use it to record and elaborate their ideas as they come to mind, to gather ideas, notes or artifacts of interest as they see them (especially those that may inspire future ideas), to ‘doodle’ half-formed thoughts, and to share ideas with others by showing particular sketches.
The sketchbook is particularly valuable as it encourages its owners to collect and develop a multitude of ideas and choose between them, rather than to fixate on a single idea. As explained previously this ...
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