Enhance your communications skills with sketching
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The document discusses the importance of visual communication through sketching, emphasizing its benefits in promoting creativity, enhancing memory, and fostering engagement. It provides practical steps to reintroduce sketching into daily life, alongside examples and resources for effective sketchnoting. The agenda includes reasons to embrace visual methods, tips for practice, and encourages sharing sketchnotes within a community.
Enhance your communications skills with sketching
- 1. Enhance your communication skills with sketching Rebecca Jackson @_rebeccajackson Product Anonymous @prod_anon #prodmgmt March 19 2015
- 2. About me • Into community management, social media, intranets, UX, product management… • Rediscovered drawing a few years ago • Twitter: @_rebeccajackson
- 3. About you • Say Hi to the people next to you • Exchange names • It will make things easier later on :)
- 4. Agenda • Why visual communication is awesome • How to introduce sketching back into your life • Examples • 7 steps to sketchnoting • Practice time • Resources
- 6. Promotes creativity • Drawing from imagination flexes your creative muscles • Drawing what you see builds your visual memory
- 7. 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
- 8. Will help you explore and iterate • Drawing is associative (rather than linear) • In a group, you can collaborate on an idea
- 9. 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
- 10. How to introduce sketching back into your life
- 11. Just start to draw again • Doodle in the margins • Sketch instead of taking notes • Draw instead of taking photos
- 12. Use the whiteboard and butchers paper There are opportunities to draw everyday • Ideation • Story boards • Wireframes Instead of reaching for the mouse, find a marker
- 13. Try sketchnoting • Meeting notes • Conference presentations • Videos • Books • Experiences
- 14. Examples
- 15. Eva-Lotta Lam ‘My contribution to Mike Rohde's Sketchnotes Handbook’ https://flic.kr/p/dL6gvR CC BY-SA 2.0
- 16. Matthew Magain ‘Innovation: A Global Perspective’ https://flic.kr/p/e4E9is © All Rights Reserved (Used with Permission)
- 17. Caroline Sewell ‘2014 TypeCon, Sketchnotes 3 of 5’ https://flic.kr/p/ppAM7H CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
- 18. Mauro Toselli ‘Design Thinking MOOC - WHAT IS Week 3 recap’ https://flic.kr/p/re3ofi © All Rights Reserved (Used with Permission)
- 19. Ivan Seymus ‘Walkies in Rome’ https://flic.kr/p/pPpEWE CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 20. Rebecca Jackson My First Sketchnote: How great leaders inspire action https://flic.kr/p/eA57Gp © All Rights Reserved
- 21. 7 steps to sketchnoting Tips and tools
- 22. 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
- 23. Pre work • Save time and get a head start • Research if you can • Fill in before hand • Title • Portrait of speaker • Location and date
- 24. Choose your seat • Comfort really helps • You need good light (can BYO) • Close enough to hear well
- 25. Pace and use your space • Are you limited in page space? • Watch the clock • Decide what pattern you want to follow
- 26. Outline first, detail later • Where time is limited, economise • Draw the basics in session • Fill in gaps later on
- 27. 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
- 28. Practice, practice, practice Like everything, the more you use it the better you become
- 29. Practice
- 30. Watch,Listen Record • Put the title on the page • Pick out the “chunky” bits • Use images, key words, icons
- 31. Video 1 Kelly McGonigal- How to make stress your friend https://youtu.be/RcGyVTAoXEU
- 32. Discussion Talk with the people next to you that you met earlier • Was it easy / hard? • How did the process make you feel?
- 33. Video 2 Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work https://youtu.be/fLJsdqxnZb0
- 34. Resources
- 35. 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 Voláková http://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/
- 36. Interwebs • The Sketchnote Army sketchnotearmy.com/ • Sketchnotes subreddit www.reddit.com/r/sketchnotes/ • Twitter: • @SketchnoteArmy • #sketchnotes • #todaysdoodle
- 37. 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
- 39. Thanks to Product Anonymous and Brainmates
- 40. 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
- 41. 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/0,8599,188212 7,00.html