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Collaborative design workshop Introduction and how to sketch

Collaborative design workshop preparation - Introduction to sketching

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Introduction to sketching for National Library of Australia staff in preparation for collaborative design workshops.

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Collaborative design workshopIntroduction and how to sketch

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Background

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Why?

• Challenge of doing good design work• Explore as many options as possible• Come up with solid design solutions

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We need a tool that…

• Avoids unnecessary detail• Reveals the best of multiple solutions• Gets everyone's input and by in

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Collaborative design sessions…

Sketch > Present > Critique

(Iterate)

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Sketching

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Sketchboard

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Come up with the best solution

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Introduction to sketching

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Interaction design sketching

How your idea works on the pageand then communicate that to other people

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Interaction design sketching

• Information• Interface structure• Flow

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Sketching

• It’s not about “bad” or “good”

• “Can you see it?”• “Can you understand it”

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Tools

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Tools for sketching

• Markers• Templates (6up and 1up)

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Rules of thumb

Use markers not pencilsIf you mess up keep going

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Warm up exercises

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Drawing lines

1. Use the small point of your marker2. Draw a series of horizontal lines in

one box3. Draw vertical lines in the next box

Try drawing from your shoulder Try drawing at different speedsSee what works for you

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Lines and rectangles experiment

1. Turn your page over2. Fill the page with overlapping

rectangles at least 103. Choose one rectangle and

highlight it yellow4. Use a fat sharpie and outline 3

rectangles5. Shade 3 rectangles with a grey

marker

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Homework

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Your homework

• Practice your sketching• Send me an email of a product that you

think that the redeveloped LA search should be like and why