In a high-tech field like web design, we might expect to find computer-savvy practitioners accomplishing all their work with the click of the mouse and a stroke of the keyboard. However, in our studies of the early stages of web design, we found that good ol’ pens, paper, walls, and tables were the primary creative tools.
Scott Klemmer
is a doctoral candidate in the Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkeley. He has an MS in Computer Science from Berkeley, and a dual BA from Brown University: in computer science and art-semiotics.