Bill Buxton spoke at The Business of Software about the use of sketching in the design process. Okay there’s more to it than that but that’s why he spoke for an hour and wrote a book titled Sketching User Experiences.

A quote from his talk, and his book, that I love is that “The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday”.

What the hell does that mean? Get your hot rod up to 88 MPH and head to the future? Well sort of but not quite. Utilize an effective design process in order to ‘visit’ the future. A key for software nerds is that this does NOT mean prototyping. Design is a process separate and distinct from prototyping.

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