Post on 14-Jul-2015
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Enhance your communication
skills with sketching
Rebecca Jackson @_rebeccajackson
Product Anonymous @prod_anon #prodmgmt
March 19 2015
About me
• Into community management, social media, intranets, UX, product management…
• Rediscovered drawing a few years ago
• Twitter: @_rebeccajackson
About you
• Say Hi to the people next to you
• Exchange names
• It will make things easier later on :)
Agenda
• Why visual communication is awesome
• How to introduce sketching back into your life
• Examples
• 7 steps to sketchnoting
• Practice time
• Resources
Promotes creativity
• Drawing from imagination flexes your creative muscles
• Drawing what you see builds your visual memory
It’s good for your brain
• People who doodle, recall information than those who don’t
• Absent doodling can help you concentrate better
• Drawing your notes helps to remember content better
• The brain makes connections between your drawings and the content
Will help you explore and iterate• Drawing is associative
(rather than linear)
• In a group, you can collaborate on an idea
It’s engaging
• Sketched notes look nicer than pages of writing
• People are drawn to images
• And images are a universal language
• Low fidelity is better – it’s more relatable
Just start to draw again
• Doodle in the margins
• Sketch instead of taking notes
• Draw instead of taking photos
Use the whiteboard and butchers paperThere are opportunities to draw everyday
• Ideation
• Story boards
• Wireframes
Instead of reaching for the mouse, find a marker
Eva-Lotta Lam ‘My contribution to Mike Rohde's Sketchnotes Handbook’ https://flic.kr/p/dL6gvR CC BY-SA 2.0
Matthew Magain ‘Innovation: A Global Perspective’ https://flic.kr/p/e4E9is © All Rights Reserved (Used with Permission)
Caroline Sewell ‘2014 TypeCon, Sketchnotes 3 of 5’ https://flic.kr/p/ppAM7H CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Mauro Toselli ‘Design Thinking MOOC - WHAT IS Week 3 recap’ https://flic.kr/p/re3ofi © All Rights Reserved (Used with Permission)
Rebecca Jackson My First Sketchnote: How great leaders inspire action https://flic.kr/p/eA57Gp © All Rights Reserved
Choose your weapons
• Something to draw with
• Something to draw on
• A hard surface helps
• Don’t forget spares
• Markers are good for highlights or a bit of colour
Pre work
• Save time and get a head start
• Research if you can
• Fill in before hand• Title
• Portrait of speaker
• Location and date
Pace and use your space
• Are you limited in page space?
• Watch the clock
• Decide what pattern you want to follow
Outline first, detail later
• Where time is limited, economise
• Draw the basics in session
• Fill in gaps later on
Embrace your own style
• The beauty of sketchnotes is their uniqueness
• Each person has a varied style
• It’s not about a perfect representation
• A good enough representation will communicate the same message as detail
Watch,Listen Record
• Put the title on the page
• Pick out the “chunky” bits
• Use images, key words, icons
Video 1
Kelly McGonigal- How to make stress your friend https://youtu.be/RcGyVTAoXEU
Discussion
Talk with the people next to you that you met earlier
• Was it easy / hard?
• How did the process make you feel?
Video 2
Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work https://youtu.be/fLJsdqxnZb0
Books
• The Sketchnote Handbook and Workbook - Mike Rohde http://rohdesign.com/books/
• The Doodle Revolution - Sunni Brown http://amzn.com/1591845882
• 143 Visuals – Scott Torrance and Mirka Volákováhttp://www.slideshare.net/ScottTorrance/ebook-143-visuals
• UX Sketchnotes - Matt Magain http://uxmastery.com/ux-sketchnotes-a-free-ebook-containing-50-sketches-of-inspiring-ux-talks/
Interwebs
• The Sketchnote Army sketchnotearmy.com/
• Sketchnotes subredditwww.reddit.com/r/sketchnotes/
• Twitter:• @SketchnoteArmy
• #sketchnotes
• #todaysdoodle
Presentations
• Drawing in class - Rachael Smith youtu.be/3tJPeumHNLY
• Hack your life with visual thinking - Claire Holgate youtu.be/YxZSme_KJik
• Doodlers unite! – Sunni Brown youtu.be/7fx0QcHyrFk
• Why what you draw is good enough – Jeannel King youtu.be/MbjGth5LLxQ
How to find me
• Twitter: @_rebeccajackson• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccajljackson• Blog: rebeccajacksonblogs.wordpress.com• Email: rebeccajljackson@gmail.com
Share your sketchnotes on Twitter #sketchnotes#prodmgmt@_rebeccajackson
References
• The Sketchnote Handbook, Mike Rohde
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/10/10/things-you-can-accomplish-with-hand-sketching-doodling/
• http://makeapowerfulpoint.com/2014/04/16/an-argument-for-visual-thinking-in-business/
• http://www.thebookoflife.org/why-you-should-stop-taking-pictures-on-your-phone-and-learn-to-draw/
• https://designschool.canva.com/blog/7-ways-doodling-will-change-your-life
• http://uxmastery.com/why-sketchnoting-makes-you-a-better-ux-designer/
• http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.html