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A 25 minute workshop on sketchnoting (visual note taking) which I ran at the UK UXPA Creativity event on 21 March 2013, in London. I ran the workshop 3 times back-to-back and by the end of the evening we had around 50 sketchnotes created by the workshop attendees! Mike Rohde and Peachpit very kindly gave me 3 copies of The Sketchnote Handbook to give away and I picked out 3 budding sketchnoters to receive the books. Thanks to the UK UPA for organising the Creativity event and Sapient Nitro for hosting! And a hat tip to Eva-Lotta Lamm who inspired me to start sketchnoting back in 2011.
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GETTING STARTED WITH
SKETCHNOTING Michele Ide-Smith
User Experience Designer, Red Gate
@micheleidesmith
Workshop plan
• Introduction (3m)
• Getting started (7m)
• Let’s sketch! (15 m)
WHAT IS
SKETCHNOTING?
What is sketchnoting?
Visual note taking
Illustration by Mike Rohde from The Sketchnote Handbook (Peachpit)
Lots of different styles…
Carolyn Sewell http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedestriantype/
Gerren Lamson http://www.flickr.com/photos/25552033@N06/
Lots of different styles…
agent.fin http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentfin/
Eva-Lotta Lam http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/
Lots of different styles…
Francis Rowland http://www.flickr.com/photos/francisrowland/
Mike Rohde http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/
Discover your own style!
Michele Ide-Smith http://www.flickr.com/photos/micheleidesmith/
WHY DO
SKETCHNOTING?
Learning & Memory
Paivio’s ‘Dual Coding Theory’
Skills & Confidence
Explore design problems Communicate and collaborate
with your team
GETTING STARTED
Tools of the trade
At the event
• Get a good seat with a clear view
• Have your pens handy (it’s distracting for
others if you scrabble around in your bag!)
Listening and live sketching
• Listen for key points you’ll want to re-visit*
• Great quotes? What would you tweet?
• What images pop into your head? Don’t be
afraid to try sketching them.
• Don’t stress if you don’t catch everything!
*a good speaker lays out the structure of their talk at the start
Structure
Path Molecule Grid Vertical Clouds
People
Lo-fidelity Hi(gher)-fidelity Expressive
Different body sizes Active Seated Characterful Hands
Objects
Containers
Dividers & Connectors
Horizontal Curves
Shading adds emphasis
Connectors
Typography
LET’S SKETCH!
Try creating a sketchnote!
• Now it’s your turn!
• Let’s watch a short TED talk (6 m 51 s)
• Listen for key quotes & important ideas
Tom Wujec – Build a Tower, Build a Team www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
Finishing Touches
Add colour & shading (I love Promarkers!)
Share Your Sketchnotes
Take a picture or
scan your notes
Then share with people at the
event, or those tracking remotely!
Top 10 Tips
1. Practise often! TED & UX talks, Meet Ups
2. Always carry a sketchbook & pens to events
3. Add title & speaker name before the talk, or
leave space to complete them later
4. Think like a designer: structure & flow,
proximity & grouping, size, colour & contrast
5. Don’t panic if you miss something! Transcribe
2-3 words, leave space & refer to slides later
Top 10 Tips
6. Watch the time & space you have left
7. Use shading to turn mistakes into something
else (or scan & edit in Photoshop!)
8. Add event name & Twitter handle
9. Don’t use reverse of pages & add a blank
sheet between pages (prevent bleed through)
10. Relax, be creative & above all, enjoy yourself!
Useful Stuff!
rohdesign.com/book/
sketchnotearmy.com
flickr.com/groups/thesketchnotehandbook/
sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/
Get in touch!
@micheleidesmith
www.ide-smith.co.uk
michele.ide-smith [at] red-gate [dot] com
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