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Visualize. Think. Win.

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Sketching skills

Group IQ

What happens when people sketch better?

What happens if you can’t sketch?

...YOU WILL NEVER KNOW

World AIDS Day | Beauty Bleus

What is the best sketching tool?

Why felt pen is better than ball pen…

… because sharpie’s traces are more predictable (higher lateral friction)

How to sketch people better

Stick manTooth man

Star man(good for drawing crowds)

Star man versatility

balletpointingneutral

Head elevation vs. age

young old older

Exercise: Draw the largest crowd you can (30 sec).

Sketching Vocabulary

Sketching skill

Why you need to build a sketching vocabulary…

Emotions

Symbols Comas

Flow

Punctuation

Storify

Containers for ideas

…use frames and arrows to storify.

… C R E A T E F L O W

A R R O W S… … H E L P Y O U…

Sketching moods: The eyes

happy sad

Oresignationcrossed

Drawing Age: Use of eye & mouth

kid young adulttoddler

Use eye-mouth separation to express age...

kid young adulttoddler

In general, age is proportional to eye - mouth dispersion...

Granma vs. Toddler

toddler granma*

... Except for the granma case, where proportions become again those of a toddler* - Akira Toriyama.

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Exercise. Graphic vocabulary

Try to sketch these keywords (in less than 10 seconds each) : love, robot, key, collaboration, communication flower, house, time, summer, cold, hot, hope, athletic, hungry

Teach to steal by forcing people to share ...

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Typography matters...

Typography Maters

... Let me say that again.

Typography ...

Test your storyfication skills…

1 Watch Paolo Cardini Talk “Forget multitasking, try monotasking” 2 Summarise the talk in a A4 paper with sticky notes

3 Share (in pairs) 4 Steal peers best ‘elements’ 5 Iterate x three times

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Share and steal from your peers...

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Workhop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015 Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Use the circle to treat each work equally

Workhop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Happy Sketching!

About the author Jose Berengueres received a Masters in Electrical Engineering in Barcelona and a PhD in bio-inspired robots from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has taught Design Thinking and Business Models Innovation in California, Germany and Mexico. He also consults on UX for a data visualisation company. In 2014 he was mentor at StartupWeekend Dubai. He currently is assistant professor at UAE University.