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This site has been created to help develop your ability to communicate designs with others. The skills that you develop should assist you in communicating your thoughts in product design and also in the big bad world of industry. When we are writing, we need to consider the intended audience for our communication. If you were to send a CV to a potential employer in ‘text message speak’ you are unlikely to receive an invite to interview. Similarly, sometimes ‘formal continuous prose’ can seem impersonal and so inappropriate when we want to communicate friendliness or emotion. We can consider communication through graphics the same way. The doodle sketches that you produce while sitting on the sofa are unlikely to meet the needs of a client who wanted to know what your proposals would actually look like when they are finished. In this case a CAD pictorial view or a rendered perspective sketch may be more appropriate. Alternatively, a scale model produced in clay or through rapid prototyping may meet your needs best. For this reason we need to develop a toolbox of communication skills that we can draw upon and apply in a way that meets the needs of our situation. To first develop an understanding of where different types of communication can be applied, you can view this tutorial/lecture. As you develop skills in CAD, modelling, manual graphics and sketching, it may be worth returning to this tutorial/lecture from time to time. media type="custom" key="5415069"