Sketch
A sketch is a rough, low-fidelity drawing or outline used to record ideas and plan content structure before development.
Everyday Data Visualization
Sketching is the practice of quickly recording visual ideas in a low-fidelity form before committing to development.
- How it is used
- Uses rough visual exploration to shape design directions before development.
- How deep it goes
- Describes a flexible routine of roughing out, waiting, photographing, comparing, and selecting, without prescribing a formal method.
- Examples
- Uses whiteboards, dry-erase markers, photographs, single-color drawings, and sets of three alternative ideas.
- What you can do after
- Practice/perform rapid visual ideation and compare alternatives before developing a design.
Web Design Playground
A rough preliminary drawing or outline used to plan the structure and placement of content.
- How it is used
- Uses a rough layout plan to guide web-page design before HTML and CSS coding.
- How deep it goes
- Explains sketching through section placement, approximate dimensions, and content labels, then stops before detailed visual rendering.
- Examples
- Uses home pages, landing pages, photo galleries, and portfolio pages with labeled structural sections.
- What you can do after
- Build a clearer initial page structure by sketching sections before choosing styles and writing markup.
Related concepts
- prototypingalternative to · Prototyping is the practice of creating and evaluating a preliminary or partial implementation to explore or validate an idea, design, or approach.
- layoutuses · A layout is the arrangement and positioning of content or interface elements within a page, screen, or other visual area.
- Adobe Photoshopalternative to · Adobe Photoshop is a raster-graphics editing application for creating, manipulating, and compositing digital images.
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