

You think about one idea, you test it out, you see whether it works, then you tweak it and you keep changing it”.Īs reported by Adelana, today over 33 million SketchUp users can be counted, individual learners, practitioners and brands worldwide across architecture, interior design, commercial interiors, retail design, even automotive design. So, I think it's important that students learn how to make things but also given the tools to make them quickly so that they can iterate: I think design is an iterative process. “The speed and the pace of design forces people to do things quickly, but they don't want to lose the rigor and the care. In fact, students’ programs are also a part of today’s Sketchup offer, universities worldwide are integrating the software, and the learning about 3d modeling as a thinking tool, as part of their curriculum. There is also the connection with the brain, where it feels like you can sketch something and bring it to life in 3d”. Because there is an ease that comes with it. “Whether people say that they use it or not, that trend is changing: people will be like ‘Of course I use this tool’.

I imagined that our lecturers wanted us to get very tactile with the things that we were making and learning so that we could connect the thought process with the process of making, and I appreciate that standpoint, you have to figure out how things come together, how things are made” 17 years later, Adelana recalls, SketchUp permeates every environment where there is something being created or made.

“In the UK you had to sketch everything or draw everything or make physical models ahead of 3D modeling.
