You go through the design process of a product with blinders on sometimes. But with the iPhone Stencil (see <a href="http://mobilesketchbook.com/">MobileSketchBook.com</a> in case you are hearing about this for first time) I employed a great iPhone Programmer <a href="http://bit.ly/lWjCl">David Hinson</a> to review the template. My thanks to him for doing that. And of course my great <a href="http://www.malishandpagonis.com/">designer Dimitri Pagonis</a> for his art work.
I want to do a very quick little rear view mirror analysis on why I think this stencil trumps the existing metal stencil that preceded ours. The short list:
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<li>you can see through to the paper with our stencil. Huge. It’s really hard to design when you can’t see what you are doing.</li>
<li>ours is 1.5x size. Matches our new Sketch Book from Apress. And easy to get a pencil into tight holes – try that will the metal 1.25x scale stencil.</li>
<li>ours bends. It’s durable. It’s a working item and not a museum piece.  Bend that metal sucker by half the amount you can bend ours. History.</li>
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That’s enough for now. Have a nice weekend.

Our Stencil vs theirs

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