If you think AutoCad is complicated, what with its terrifying number of keyboard shortcuts, you should check out SketchPad, the world's first electronic drafting program. Designed by Ivan ...

Sketchpad is credited as being the first program that allowed the creation of graphic images directly on a display screen rather than by entering codes and formulas into the computer through a ...

A revolutionary device is set to do to computer screens what digital canvases did to the lowly artist’s drawing pad. Made from clear acrylic, the Gravity sketchpad let users create 3D drawings ...

For us data analysts, Excel is not so much like a Swiss Army knife (Letters, July 3) as an architect’s sketchpad. It is a place to outline ideas and ask questions of a subset of data in a visual ...