Learning a new design tool (particularly a new piece of software) is hard, time-consuming, and therefore pretty risky for anyone who makes money by billing clients. To be really good with any tool, you have to learn it deeply enough to express yourself without having to think about the way…

Learning a new design tool (particularly a new piece of software) is hard, time-consuming, and therefore pretty risky for anyone who makes money by billing clients. To be really good with any tool, you have to learn it deeply enough to express yourself without having to think about the way…

I wrote a book, a book about sketching digitally, with computers. It seems to me that writing a book, published by a technical book publisher (thanks, Wiley), printed on paper, and sold in physical bookstores, is kind of a funny thing to do these days. I spend hours every day…

tl;dr: 3D modeling software is frustrating because it is very unlike any other class of software than most people commonly use. Also, it doesn’t usually match any prior experience that people have from the real world. OK- maybe a longer description would help. Having worked for years on a product…