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Sketchnotes How to supercharge your note-taking

Boon Yew Chew October 31, 2013

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Hello :-)

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My First Sketchnote

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2013

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Sketchnotes are visually engaging

notes

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Seeing

Thinking

Hearing

Synthesising

ConnectingReferencing Feeling

Sensing

Touching

The best learning happens in real-time

Our memory decays rapidly after that point

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Picture Superiority Effect

35%10% 65%verbal verbal+visualvisual

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UX secret weapon

visual thinking facilitation

collaboration

sketchingideas

empathylistening

complexity

improvisation

information architecture

reflection

community of practicesemiotics

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participate in real-time improve visual communication enhance memory and learning share ideas with others

P.I.E.S.

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Exercise! Methods Tools

Q A&&

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Hands

ON

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Start with a big title. It can go anywhere.

@boonychhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31461676@N08/8608796530/

Write Big. Write CAPS. text is visual:

forget drawing for now.

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Finally, LISTEN with your notes.

and prettify stuff later.

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Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of success

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

Share

Discussand

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Next: anatomy, frameworks

drawing & tools

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Anatomy of a SketchnoteTitles

Lettering Writing Organisers Connectors

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Speaker

Event

Title

Visual

Subtitle

@boonychhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31461676@N08/7901696076/

hand lettering to express words and

phrases

Outline then thicken laterTip

@boonychhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/murdocke/7356840718

Use CAPS & lowercase for hierarchy and structureTip

Handwriting to express sentences

and prose

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Arrows

Frames

Bullets

>>>

---Icons

Dividers

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Frameworks establish hierarchy & flow

linear vertical radial

path modular random

@boonychhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/3674525434/

linear

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vertical

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radial

http://www.flickr.com/photos/murdocke/7171414085/

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path

http://www.flickr.com/photos/micheleidesmith/7098533733/

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modular

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedestriantype/6755973299/

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random

http://www.flickr.com/photos/turnislefthome/6870010788/

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Roll your own+ +

++linear vertical radial

path modular random

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Drawing objects

point line arc angle spiral loop(open)

circle leaf triangle rectangle house cloud(closed)

Dave Gray’s glyphs to build a visual vocabulary

http://www.davegrayinfo.com

@boonychhttp://communicationnation.blogspot.co.uk/2005/12/visual-thinking-practice-icons.html#113408841579697868

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Drawing People

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Triangles if you’re in a rush

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Tools I use most often

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Muji 0.38 gel ink + Muji dual-tip markers Tombow ABT brush pen + Edding 33 chisel tip marker

Liquitex acrylic ink pen Moleskine sketchbook (large)

iPhone scanner for capturing sketchnotes

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There is no process

Be prepared (research, environment, tools) Focus and avoid distractions

Find ways to improve

(just tricks)

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Hands

ON

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Tom Wujec : Build a tower, build a team

http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html

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If you take away one thing

Listen with your notes!

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Thanks. !

gluethink.com boon.chew@gmail.com

http://bit.ly/sketchnotesboon