Abstract
Sketches serve to externalize ideas, render fleeting ideas permanent, confer coherence on scattered concepts, and turn internal thoughts public. They can be created and recreated, examined and re-examined, configured and reconfigured, considered and reconsidered, for clarity and for creativity. The schematic vocabulary of sketches allows both expression and discovery of ideas. Sketching is integral to design, where vagueness encourages reinterpretation and discourages fixation. Using sketches to those ends requires constructive perception, a combination of a perceptual skill of reconfiguring and a cognitive skill of finding remote associations.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Tools for Innovation |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199870264, 9780195381634 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 Sep 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- Creativity
- Design
- Diagram
- Discovery
- Reconfigure
- Sketch
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
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Thinking with Sketches. / Tversky, Barbara; Suwa, Masaki.
Tools for Innovation. Oxford University Press, 2009.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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