ABSTRACT
Sketching as design thinking, or as Nigel Cross names it, “designerly thinking” implies that there is more to sketching than simply the ability to execute good and beautiful marks on a page. Design thinking is a collaborative endeavor characterized by the ability of designers to see the world from various points of view. In other words, design thinking imagines solutions from the intended audiences’ perspectives. The very nature of design thinking is that of iterations, testing, exploring, morphing, analyzing, and synthetizing. The imagery created in the processes not only helps to sharpen the skills, but it also increases the designers’ perception and ability to see, think, and interact with the world in shapes. The inability to draw and/or sketch the ideas poses a significant obstacle for the designer not only because sketching is the currency of the design field, but also because it limits the designer’s ability, leaving him/her to depend on found imagery.
