In this episode, I talk with David Brittain, a co-founder of the powerful drawing tool, Concepts. We talk about David’s path into programming, the philosophy and origin story of Concepts for tablets. If you haven’t considered Concepts before, this discussion will give you insights into why Concepts works the way it does.

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RUNNING ORDER

Intro: Who is David?
David’s path into visualization
Transition and integration points
Moving from gaming into visualization
Collaboration with co-founder Ben Merill
The process Concepts uses for feature development
Quality software over release dates for release sake
The philosophy behind Concepts
The benefits of a vector-based drawing tool
The Concepts object library feature
New features: Align and Snap-to-Grid
New features: Export Selection
New features: Presentation Mode
Tools
3 tips
Outro

LINKS

Concepts Website
Concepts YouTube Channel
David on Twitter
David on LinkedIn
David on Flickr
Davi’s Email - David -at- concepts.app
Superscape on Wikipedia
Co-founder Ben Merrill on Twitter
Remote Work is a Platform - Jason Fried
Concepts Learn to Draw Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

TOOLS

3 TIPS

Warm up before you sketchnote
Use our learn to draw series of videos to improve
Get feedback from others on how you can improve

CREDITS

Producer: Alec Pulianas
Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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David Brittain - SE08 / EP09