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Sketching: Friend or Foe to the Novice Designer?

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2000, International Journal of Technology and Design Education

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Previous research by one of the authors showed that novice designers do not use sketching as a way to generate, develop and communicate design proposals, but move immediately to three-dimensional modelling. Neither do they generate multiple solutions.

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