Getting Started With Sketchnoting

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?

Illustration by Mike Rohde from The Sketchnote Handbook (Peachpit)

Visual note taking

Lots of different styles…

Carolyn Sewell Gerren Lamson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedestriantype/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/25552033@N06/


agent.fin Eva-Lotta Lam
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentfin/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/


Francis Rowland Mike Rohde
http://www.flickr.com/photos/francisrowland/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/

Discover your own style!

Michele Ide-Smith
http://www.flickr.com/photos/micheleidesmith/

Learning & Memory

Paivio’s ‘Dual Coding Theory’

Skills & Confidence

Explore design problems Communicate and collaborate
with your team

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 Seated Active Hands Characterful

Dividers & Connectors

Horizontal Curves Connectors

Shading adds emphasis

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 Then share with people at the
scan your notes 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
e michele.ide-smith [at] red-gate [dot] com

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