I just have to say about the last post: It's amazing to be able to come up with wacky ideas like Conference Bots, sketch the idea out on a Tablet PC, and in a matter of minutes post it up to the Internet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could have used paper. But I didn't. I can't draw well--so I do a lot of deleting. You probably do the same when typing: You hit the backspace just about as much as you type new characters. Same goes here. I can scribble something, delete a stroke, delete a few pixels, and redraw until I get something close to looking OK. And when I'm done the end product doesn't look like I've erased half the thickness of the sheet away. And I didn't have to scan anything. Could I have used a CAD program? Sure. But I don't have one. Could I have used Photoshop or Illustrator? Probably. But I just wanted something rough and fast. It would take me hours to figure out how to draw what I had in mind--the way I visualized it--within Photoshop. With Journal I just sketched the idea out.
All engineers should have Tablet PCs.
Posted by Loren at July 23, 2003 01:44 PMI'm guessing that now that everyone is used to the spit and polish that office suites and Photoshop gives, it's hard for them to accept hand drawn images again. I scrawled some ideas for web page design in Journal and used them in an informal session with business users. Two days later I came in with some updated pages and the comment I received was "you didn't draw any did you?" But that comment was from a rude IBM consultant, probably jealous. I'll continue to use them.
Posted by: Kevin on July 25, 2003 07:05 PM