Intro to sketchnotes

This workshop will help people overcome the ‘fear of bad drawing’ in order to communicate ideas and concepts in an engaging and interesting fashion, helping take stakeholders and clients along the journey from stage one.

We’ll look at the benefits of sketchnoting, how it helps you retain information, and build up some sketching skills through activities in order to help overcome the initial hurdles of putting pen to paper in order to develop confidence in yourself to express ideas and solve problems without having to be an 'artist'.

We'll look at:

Intro to and benefits of sketchnoting
Examples of where sketchnotes can be used in UX/Agile projects
Personal uses of sketchnoting
Activities to build up/have a go at sketching, from simple icons, through people, structures of sketchnotes etc