Sketchbook Pro
SERVICES
User Interface Design, Graphic Design
How do you create a visual language that intuitively communicates the function and flow of professional-grade digital sketching and illustration tools? One that is at home with both professional artists, aspiring students, and the doodler that needs to make a few quick notes?
And how do you do that so that it works across all applications ranging from desktops to smartphones? Those were the questions we wrestled with at Autodesk when we built out the first prototypes of Sketchbook Pro.
INTERACTION DESIGN
Our goal was to take a simple metaphorical approach, work out the essential interaction types and build into the language just enough visual ques to quickly extract meaning and make meaning applicable within seconds. Consistently rated as one of the most intuitive digital sketching tools (and loved by the folks at WIRED® Magazine), we think we hit our mark.
Working with an incredible team of designers, inclusive of a crazy (and ingenious) Quebecer, an obsessive team of human factors types, and a fantastically unorthodox product manager, Sketchbook Pro has taken on a life of its own. Used by everyone from the designers at Nike to the concept designers at Disney, we had a riot bringing a tool into the world that has found creative expression in so many hands.