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Deliberately rough-looking diagramming, which keeps early sketches from reading as decided.
ToolCraft conventionFoundational
Definition
An open-source sketching tool with a hand-drawn aesthetic. The visual roughness is functional: diagrams look provisional, which invites change rather than approval.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
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Good for
- Quick architecture sketches
- Early flow diagrams
- Embedding diagrams in documentation
Watch out for
Not suited to detailed or long-lived diagrams.
Local chart
TOOL·009 · Region VII · Grid F4
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Often used with
These usually appear in the same screen or the same decision.
- User FlowTPL·005 · Template
- Prototyping FidelityFLOW·005 · Workflow