My favorite part of excalidraw over any other drawing tool is the messiness. With regular line and shape tools I end up obsessing over geometric precision and symmetry, with excalidraw it’s impossible to create “perfect” drawings, so I don’t worry about it (within reason). I wonder if this phenomenon has been named or observed in UX/game design because it’s so darn effective at making me productive when drawing.
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It's called artists impression in building architecture. good enough to give you an impression of what it will become, without the suggestion of 100% correctness. You can see the same technique being used in UX, but it also works for IT architecture drawings.
Powerpoint comes with an option to draw sketched lines, i have large decks drawn in this way. See: https://pptcrafter.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/hand-drawn-style...
I think it's what attracted people to Balsamiq vs. Axure and other products as well.
Because it kinda looks like a child's work it takes off the edge of noticing useless details and carries the intent better.
The same can be said about Lorem Ipsum vs. "real text". If you put real text, whoever is looking at it analyses things beyond the point you're trying to get across. People notice unbalanced text and typos and all you wanted to say was "there is going to be text here."
I do something similar with laptop stickers; it’s hard to place a sticker horizontally or vertically centered with no “tilt” so I’ll intentionally put it off center with some tilt.
I have heard of quite a few people who write with their font set to comic sans to get this effect...