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    What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    There are plenty of designing tools out there, what is your most favorite one?

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    Paper & Pen, or maybe a whiteboard and some post-its !

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    Agree on whiteboard and lot's of paper!

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    Design tools: (in no particular order)

    Pen & paper
    Viso
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    Post-it notes
    Paint/GIMP
    Whiteboard

    Just kind of depends on what I'm designing at the time.

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    I like using a Jigsaw. I cut out objects from 3/4" plywood and arrange them on the floor where they are stuck with rubber cement (so that they can be pulled up for 'refactoring').

    Frankly, I started off with riffing on the idea that design tools could mean anything, but then I just went with it in a free-form approach.

    When it comes to program design tools, I like pen/paper and MS Word.
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    I was tempted to post a smart remark like "French Curve." But I was worried most people here wouldn't know one if they sat on it, and would probably assume it was sexual innuendo.

    It's amazing what people are no longer exposed to in school.

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    I haven't used one of those in ages...
    I suppose it could be handy for developing non-square windows... :-/

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    I think French curves have been badly neglected. DotNet stuff like Graphics.DrawCurve draws spline curves; and they are ... well, so spliny. Yuk. Bezier curves are much nicer, as you would expect from something invented by a Frenchman. Like French wines and French women, they have a certain je ne sais quoi, but I don't know what it is. I can't quite put my finger on it, particularly in the case of the French women.

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    Quote Originally Posted by Arnoutdv View Post
    Agree on whiteboard and lot's of paper!
    I agree on those, but i think it also depends on what are you going to do

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    I thought the question was clear: he's designing. Who or what he or she has designs on is another matter.

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    Diptrace, no question about it. It's marvellous.
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    For me it has to be chalk and slate you just can't beat it

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    I like to use pencil and paper. The pencil lets me erase stuff afterwards.

    On a non-related note, an eraser is usually called rubber in India. I was looking for an eraser at a local staples store and, when approached for assistance, blurted out that I am looking for rubbers. The sales clerk promptly pointed me towards the Walgreens store outside the window and said "We don't carry them here. The pharmacy next door should have plenty of those!"
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    Does writing your name in the snow count?

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    Ooo...The OP is banned. Anybody got any sauce on this ?
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    I started to mention that maybe they changed their status tag... but with only the 1 post, they wouldn't be able to do that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    I started to mention that maybe they changed their status tag... but with only the 1 post, they wouldn't be able to do that...

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    Re: What is your favorite Designing Tool?

    Primary: Whiteboard & Marker
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    Currently each of our meeting/design rooms have been outfitted with electronic while boards with Windows OS. This is much better than the old days of whiteboards and markers simply because rooms a shared resources thru IT (over 40 in our group) so you can not expect things to stay on the board past your meeting while the new boards you save things to disk.

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    Diptrace, no question about it. It's marvellous.
    Diptrace? Sounds like a tool used by moderators to track members here.

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    Ooo...The OP is banned. Anybody got any sauce on this ?
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