We prototype every scene on paper first. A sheet of triangle-grid paper, a soft pencil and ten minutes are enough to find out whether a composition works. It is far cheaper to erase a pencil line than to rewrite a dozen nested transforms, and the sketch doubles as documentation when someone asks why a block sits where it does.
Your toolkit
- Triangle-grid paper and a soft pencil
- A browser with a Layers panel
- A snippets file of finished scenes
Pia Jensen
We used the grid background on our docs site and it looks great with a dark theme too.