If we don't look out, we shall soon be out of control as designers. The computers in our office have helped us to be able to do a million dollars worth of work with the same number of people. You have enormous color options, so it's good from that standpoint. We can do 24 plots of different carpet patterns easily. We can explore concepts and variations much more rapidly than we can on paper.
Presentations are much more accurate than before.
Perspectives that we used to do in black and white now can be easily shown in many color variations. We have a lot more options. When you buy software, all the brochures talk about what the program can do, but they never tell you how long it takes to do it on the monitor. Much of what the software can do takes more time than it would have freehand. Of course, it is ultimately faster.