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Sketching for work: visual notetaking (sketchnoting)

How often do you look at your notes after a lecture or a meeting and wish they were clearer and more readable? Visual notetaking (sketchnoting) is a powerful skill that changes the way you listen and convey ideas.

Sketchnoting helps you to learn, remember, and organize information. It is a great way to explain your ideas and engage others in your thinking process.

After these course, you will:

be more comfortable creating visual explanations while listening to a speaker;

be more willing to show your sketches to others;

feel empowered to explain your ideas visually more often.

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Ten things that make us better designers

Now you can also buy a print, a t-shirt, a mug or anything else with these principles. Check this collection for designers in my shop.

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For all procrastinating speakers out there! 

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What makes designers happy #1

You can order a print with this sketch in my shop.

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What makes designers happy #2.

You can order a print with this sketch in my shop.

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10 Usability Heuristics Sketched

Together with UX Researcher Kris Liu we collaborated to create this visualization of 10 Usability Heuristics by Jacob Nielsen.

Here you can download a letter-size poster and a brochure. Brochure has a quick checklist on how to conduct heuristic evaluation.

Feel free to download, print it and share!

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I am often asked recommendations on what course to take to learn UX design. I have several favorite online resources and books that helped me in my UX journey (I am planning to write a post about this), but one of the most useful courses I took remains the Interaction Design Specialization course taught by Scott Klemmer on Coursera.

It teaches you how to design great user experiences, from finding the need, through UX research and iterations, to the final design that will delight your users. It is great foundational course on interaction design!

While taking this course several years ago, I was sketching every lecture and later professor Klemmer included my sketchnotes to the course itself. 

Since that time I got lots of “thank you” Linkedin messages and emails from people around the world who found my sketchnotes useful in their learning journey. I am really grateful for all your emails, it is great to see that my sketches are useful to so many future designers! 

If you want to have all sketchnotes from the course in a single PDF, you can download them via link below. It is free, just put “0” in the price field and press “I want this”. 

Sketchnotes of Interaction Design Specialization.

Happy visual learning! :)

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The process...

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Writing is thinking. When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you—because it forces you to go beyond the polite cocktail-party line you use to describe what you do and really think about the impact your work has. Writing isn’t really about wording. It’s about thinking.

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The story of the black weird man.

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Capturing possible futures of our world!

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Five very simple tricks that will make your public speech more engaging. My favorite is “Make people think”. Asking people to use their imagination involve them in your story and spark their curiosity.

📩✏️ Subscribe to my visual note-taking online course to learn how to make such illustrations by yourself.

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I created this sketch for Scrumguides team some time ago. It explains the basics of the Scrum process - type of meetings, principles, roles and every little detail of the development process.

Guys from Scrumguides are printed out this infographic on the huge roll of paper so everyone could use it as a visual reference in the office while working with a team. Also, they included this visual explainer into their workbook for the certification program!

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Wish I had something like this at work or at home! :)

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I believe that the ability to sketch is useful as the ability to write. Visual approach for note-taking help me to learn, remember and organise information. And also it is great skill to make your presentations more fun!

Now I am working on the online course where I will share my approach for note-taking and you will learn the basic principles of how to make your notes and slides more visual, fun and useful.

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Sketchnotes of James Giangola’s talk on how to design voice interactions. This talk is full of great examples of how boring and inappropriote current voice assistants and the way he would re-design them.  

Check video for more details.

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What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail?