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We explore how two architects who lost their sight found ways of continuing their practice. Both developed their own design tools, based partly on traditional scaled representations in architecture. How do they cope with scale in these tools which are mostly used in a haptic way? And how does this haptic designing relate to the haptic qualities of their designs? We conclude that, for the haptic design process we observed, the notion of scale can be expanded from a relation between conception and perception to a relation between perception in the design process and perception of the built form.