SKETCH TOOLS
Hand sketching designs is the most natural way to express your design ideas so that both you and collaborators can work with the designs. This is true regardless of the task: an algorithm, user interface or architecture. Current computer design environments do not support pen and ink input. If they did, designers could work naturally with the sketched design, until they are ready to formalize it. Then with intelligent software the sketch can be recognized and converted automatically. The big research challenges are to improve and generalize the recognition algorithms and explore what other features may be useful in an electronic sketch environment.
- InkKit is a general, extensible diagram sketching tool.
- Freeform is a user interface design tool integrated into Visual Basic 6.
- SketchNode is an advanced graph sketching tool.
- Intelligent Mind Map is a sketched based tool to create mind maps.