Objective:
What ideas is your site design based on? Are you designing a minimalist site, or striving for a grunge stlye? Is you design evocative of an artist like Mondrian or Rothko? Is site design based on a metaphor?

Making hand-drawn web page sketches is simple, but we're doing this exercise to emphasize its importance. A simple approach like this can deliver tremendous value, save oodles of time, and generally improve communication with your client and within your team. More advanced web sketches become page mockups that are developed in Photoshop.

Inspiration:

Why we sketch, an article by Jared Spool.

Ten beautiful sketches for website prototypes by Antonio Lupetti.

Hopefully, this exercise will just be a part of your larger sketchbook work. Take a look inside the sketchbooks of 12 top designers. Graphic features photographed pages from the sketchbooks of dozens of designers around the world.

You could go all out with a web design sketchbook—or make your own.

You have created three sketches of your web site project for this course.
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You have created three sketches of existing web sites.

You have created three sketches of existing web sites.