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Daily Practice  The principle of aesthetic characterize a range of artistic elements such as shape, color, texture, line, and use of space, to convey values, capture emotion, create unity, communicate…

Daily Practice This practice is intended to help designers think more deeply about existing products some of us may dismiss as a superficial piece of plastic or just another craft. Give…

Daily PracticeThese Sketchnotings were done by one of my former students-Wei Wang. When he was studying and sketching existing products, he's not only drawing them, but also use sketchnoting to…

Daily Practice As a product designer, whatever you design will at some stage have to be manufactured. An exploded view drawing could explain how the separate elements of your design…

Daily PracticeExplore widely, from water flow, ginkgo leaves, insects, animals, human figures. Try to observe and understand the object first, proportion, the mass or the volume, subtle surface transition, form…

Daily PracticePrimitive drawing practice is a warm up exercise that may as silly as they seems, however, it could really help you get sharp with your sketching and draw from…

Daily Practice After have studied the internal components or had a clear idea of the volumes or structure frame a product needed, the approach of use planes to visualize the mass…

Daily PracticeSketch StormingOnce the conditions and constrains was settled through early user research and prototype study, Sketch Storming is a great way for initially coming up with lots of ideas…

Practice 1 Define two simple geometric forms as if it’s the mass or volume a product needed, use addition and subtraction to explore transition between surfaces and components while keeping…

Warm-up PracticeThis is a warm up practice every time before beginning to sketch on a real project. Spend a little spare time whenever you can to draw completely free and…