If you’ve been keeping up with us lately, you’ve undoubtedly noticed our hand-drawn UI sketches. We get so many requests for those darn sheets that we decided to officially release them! We do, however, want to give credit to the proper people that led to us using this particular style of UI presentation.
In 2009, Team Forty attended Leah Buley’s session entitled UX Team of One at South by Southwest. Leah went through the entire process of how Adaptive Path uses these sketch sheets to speed up the UX design process. Seems like Adaptive Path has been using these sheets for quite some time as Brandon Schauer wrote an article about them in 2007, “Sketchboards: Discover Better + Faster UX Solutions” where they linked to the templates they currently use.
After using Adaptive Path’s sheets for a bit, we realized the grid in the background was not really suitable for our style so we decided to edit them and use a dot grid instead:
Download the 6-up sketch sheet.
Download the 1-up sketch sheet.
Posted by Bruno on Mar 23, 2010
Hi,
Thanks for sharing, but it seems that the links for the sketch sheets aren´t working.
Best,
B.
Posted by ken on Mar 23, 2010
work great for me. thanks for sharing!
Posted by Sunny Thaper on Mar 23, 2010
Sorry about that Bruno! I have since fixed the links.
Posted by Andy on Mar 24, 2010
Thanks guys! We use plain grid paper, but I think we’ll give this a try! Great stuff.
Posted by Lawrence Riddick on Apr 01, 2010
Thanks, these are great!
Posted by Milan Andric on Apr 03, 2010
I’ve also used the 960 sketch sheets which are awesome as well.
http://github.com/nathansmith/960-Grid-System/raw/master/sketch_sheets/960_sketch.pdf
Posted by Amy Lamp on Apr 05, 2010
@Milan I can totally see how those would be helpful for detail sketches! I like the 6-up dot version when my goal is to quickly jot out layout ideas. They’ve been great for breaking my cycle of getting attached to the first layout idea and explore more.
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