Thumbnails
As the designers try out different ideas one should keep in mind how the design takes shape from scratch the implementation level. The best method is to make small thumbnails. Thumbnails are small sketches about basic ideas of the core topic. For example if a designer is working on a magazine advertisement, creating small thumbnails to see the placement of heading, images, text will greatly help.
Look at the image below to get a visual idea of what thumbnail is.
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Thumbnails are very helpful to designers during brainstorming sessions with clients or with other like minded artists. Thumbnails reveals the thinking process of the designers from the starting level and all the changes that occur in between, and how the end result is achieved.
Here is a visual representation of how to draw thumbnails.
