Practice · 12 August 2026
Sketching with constraints
A boundary can reduce noise without reducing possibility.
Beginning with every option available can make a small idea feel unnecessarily heavy. A deliberate constraint—one typeface, two colors, a fixed page size—gives the first decisions somewhere to land.
Constraints as questions
A good constraint does not dictate the answer. It asks a more useful question: what can this idea become within a clear edge? The result is easier to evaluate because the frame stays still.
Later, the frame can move. But changing one boundary at a time makes it possible to understand what each change contributes.