Workshop: Sketching for Visual Thinking & Sketchnoting

Designer, sketchnoter and visual thinker.Eva-Lotta Lammis a User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris and London for a few years before packing up her backpack and gotravelling the worldfor 14 months. She hasover 12 years of experienceworking on digital products as an in-house designer for Google, Skype, and Yahoo! as well as freelancing and consulting for various agencies and her own clients. After being a (semi-)nomad for 2 years, she is now based in Berlin.Besides her UX work, she has been taking sketchnotes at hundreds of talks and conferences and has self-published her notes in several books (www.sketchnotesbook.com). During her world trip, she documented her experience as daily sketchnotes in her travel diary (www.secretsfromtheroad.com).Eva-Lotta also is a sought after expert and teacher in the area of sketching, sketchnoting and visual thinking. She isregularly speaking at international design conferencesand has been teaching sketching workshops at conferences and for companies for many years. She is currently writing abook on sketching interfaces, based on one of her workshop formats.Eva-Lotta is the illustrator ofContent Everywhereby Sara Wachter-Boettcher andThe User’s Journeyby Donna Lichaw, both published by Rosenfeld Media.In her personal sketching practice, she is exploring the area of Visual Improvisation, where she is looking at the parallels between sketching and improvisation and experiments with how the principles from her regular theatre improvisation practice can be used to inspire visual work.

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<H2 CLASS="p1">Sketching for Visual Thinking & Sketchnoting –  Capture and visualise concepts quickly and engagingly</H2>
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Do you think you can’t draw?
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Do you wish you could confidently walk up to a whiteboard and sketch your ideas out in front of your colleagues? 
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Do you wish the users in your storyboards were a bit more lively than just skinny stick men? 
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Would you like to take more interesting and memorable notes during conferences and meetings?
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This hands-on workshop will provide you with the necessary skills, practice and confidence to sketch your ideas and communicate more visually and engagingly.
We will start with a warm-up and basic sketching exercises and learn how to sketch simple objects, people and expressions. We’ll look at some key concepts of visual explanations and then move rapidly through a series of hands-on exercises interspersed with live demonstration, group reviews, and practical critique.
We will dive into the topic of visual notetaking (also known as sketchnoting), explore why visual notes are powerful and how you can start capturing presentations, meetings, workshops and research interviews in a more engaging way.
This fun and informative day will equip you with some fundamental sketching skills, a good understanding of how to memorably capture what you hear and how to communicate your ideas visually.
<H2>What you’ll learn</H2>
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how to express ideas and concepts through simple sketching
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how to sketch objects, people, hands and facial expressions.
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how to develop visual metaphors for abstract concepts
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how to build your own visual vocabulary
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how to create structure and establish visual hierarchy
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sketchnoting as a technique to capture talks, meetings in a memorable and engaging way
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how to overcome the challenges of sketchnoting live talks: how to deal with time pressure, structure, abstract concepts, etc.
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how to work with ‘mistakes’ and accept them as happy accidents
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<H2>Who should attend</H2>
This workshop is ideal for Designers, Researchers, Product Managers, Developers or anyone who needs to capture and express concepts quickly and engagingly. The techniques taught in this workshop will provide you with a valuable communication tool to add to your arsenal. 
All skill levels are welcome and no previous sketching skills or knowledge are necessary.
<H2 CLASS="p1"> What's included</H2>
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Light breakfast. Lunch. Tea, coffee, water and snacks during the day
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All materials needed including a set of my favourite pens for you to keep after the workshop
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A PDF of all slides to download after the workshop
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<H2 CLASS="p1">Please note:</H2>
The minimum number of attendees for the workshop is six. Should we not get enough registrations, the workshop will be cancelled a minimum of 7 days before the event. You will get a full return of your fee.
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