Concept Sketching

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Get your ideas down on paper and remember, they are 'CONCEPTS'. Try to be creative!!

When concept sketching, it's important to incorporate all of your ideas and opportunities from your SWOT analysis. Maybe you will combine the ideas that you have researched from existing products into one amazing solution...but push yourself to keep thinking of other ideas. Develop 3 - 5 sketches and include the following information depending on your product:

Criteria B 1.2 Concept sketching

Physical product: Multi view sketch


Product Design Sketching

(building 3D sketches)

Product Design Sketching

(with construction lines)

Product Design Sketching

(annotation - what, how and why)

Mobile Applications or Website: Wireframing

Example using Framer.com for APP development

Check out some wireframing examples...what do they have in common?

3. Storyboarding

Video or presentation: Storyboard

Check out the Video Pre-Production Section for more details

Scale matters

Ensuring that your concept sketching and foam core prototypes are set up for scale is important. Watch this clip to understand what can happen if your client doesn't understand scale...

Further tips and resources

Check out this padlet with four similar videos showing the basics of constructing design concept drawings. The videos are very similar, so choose only one or two to watch. Below the video you can find the most important tips and tricks that were mentioned in the video.