This document outlines Vanessa Roa's brainstorming process for developing the Scribbit Virtual Pen, a pen prototype that would allow users to draw on paper and have their drawings uploaded and shared to a social media site called Scribbit. The pen would utilize scanning software to transcribe strokes onto a digital canvas. Users could then view, add to, and interact with others' drawings. Wireframes and a video mockup demonstrated Roa's vision of how Scribbit might work to combine physical drawing with online communication and collaboration.

1. Scribbit Virtual Pen 1.0
by Vanessa Roa
Spring 2012
Major Studio 2

2. BRAINSTORMING PROCESS
When I first started brainstorming the ideas for
this, I wanted to link together the walls
bathroom stalls with technology somehow.
Since bathroom stalls are still a way we
creatively communicate with people using
pictures and graphic drawings as a means to
express ourselves ironically (or not), I wanted to
explore how to bring that means of
communication to the internet in the means of a
social network.
To elaborate, there are already websites like
this, that use sketch software to bring
anonymous users together.

3. BRAINSTORMING PROCESS

4. BRAINSTORMING PROCESS

5. WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

6. WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

7. WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

8. WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

9. SCRIBBIT VIRTUAL PEN
Now that I've elaborated on how I imagined my
social network working, How would my pen fall
into this?
Utilizing some scanning software that would work
over a wireless network, the pen would connect
over the internet via computer and scan each
stroke I make on paper. It would calculate and
measure the length and thickness of the stroke
and transcribe it to create one seamless image.
Utilizing a broken antennae, a pen, a key hook
and a bead, I created a dummy prototype.

10. SCRIBBIT VIRTUAL PEN
What I'm hoping to accomplish, once the pen is
done loading the strokes, is to save the image it
creates to the Scribbit profile. From there, other
users can see your drawing and you can toggle
the ability to allow them to add onto it or not. So it
combines the means of communicating through
technology as well as through another surface.
I've created a mock up of how I imagined the
software working. While the video wouldn't be the
most accurate presentation of how the pen would
work, this is the end result of what I envision for
Scribbit Virtual Pen, on a grander scale.

11. VIDEO MOCKUP

12. CoNCLUSION
- The graphics in my video aren't what I finally
image for how the graphics should be
animated/move, I would possibly tweak this a little
more in After Effects.
- I plan on building a protoype website. I'm hoping
that come next weekend, I can explore the
graphics I created in Illustrator to make the full
transition to HTML.
- Not sure how I would create the pen. But I would
explore my options.

13. THANKS FOR WATCHING
The End
Spring 2012
Major Studio 2