Anthony – the “Real UX designers don’t use Moleskins” quip was intended as a joke (as was the bit about the skin of actual moles)…

Ben – @Sketchingpost is a really nice idea. Hope it sticks.

Draw what you like how you like, as long as the idea is conveyed then the drawing has done its job.

Whilst I’m an advocate of just getting ideas down in any form, if your sketching has a *little* bit more fidelity, it is more useful to you (as good sketching practise) and if you need to communicate ideas.

My sketching is spectacularly crappy. I took the Leah Buley’s sketching workshop and its had a noticeable effect on my work, e.g. complements from clients, thinking more carefully about the interface. My sketching still remaining quite rudimentary, but Leah’s workshop is designed to give your sketching a little lift without being perfectionist.

I’ve started to make sketching a daily thing via the twitter account @sketchingpost, which posts a sketching challenge daily.
http://twitter.com/sketchingpost

Anyone interested in participating can tag photos of their sketches for sharing on twitter.

I did this largely because sketching is one of the most fun parts of UX, but I found myself doing it fairly infrequently. Sketchingpost is designed to remedy this and keep my imagination active.

I think they’re putting too much effort in making everything look good and not taking the idea of “getting it on paper” to it’s fullest.

That being said, I disagree with the “Real UX designers don’t use Moleskins.” For basic reasons, they’re handy and easy to use. But I’m sure this wasn’t the main bullet point of this anecdote ^_^

Great read!!
-Ant

But I don’t agonise over neat wireframes. I sketch. I draw crappy boxes that look more like trapezoids and horizontal lines that look like a seismograph. Wasting time drawing pretty is … wasting time, and means stuff falls out of my head to the floor instead of onto the page while I’m screwing around. I’d rather capture ideas.

But it’s about designing a good experience experience for myself whilst designing, so I do use good-quality paper and good-quality technical markers.

> Plain A4 copier paper is easily rotated, easy to photocopy in batches.
> Bics, because they allow for many line weights.