- [[Software Development]] [[Product]] [[Productivity]] - Date Created: [[2020-09-05]] - Source: [[Shape Up]] - Fat market sketching is a [prototyping technique]([[Prototyping techniques]]) that discourages the prototyper from designing in too much detail. The name comes from using a marker that is intentionally too thick to draw much more than the bare bones of a design. - In [[Shape Up]], fat marker sketching is used to ensure that [shapers](((GYNn7zlLu))) leave room for a build team's imagination in the implementation of the finer details. - "Better for more visual ideas than those in the [[Breadboarding]] technique." - "Better for more visual ideas than those in the [[Breadboarding]] technique." - "" - "Source: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.3-chapter-04#breadboarding" - Design "Elements are the output." of fat marker sketching - "Ex. `A new “use this to Autopay?” checkbox on the existing “Pay an invoice” screen`, `A “disable Autopay” option on the invoicer’s side`, `Loose to-dos above the first group belong directly to the parent`"