Show notes

S02E14 (#324). A slightly different episode to usual. Eva-Lotta Lamm joins us to hold a visual thinking sketching workshop – Eva-Lotta, James and Per have fun going through three sketching exercises set by Eva-Lotta that can help you with your creativity, team-building, visual thinking and much more.

Grab some pens, and perhaps even a couple of colleagues and join in as we work through the exercises. Eva-Lotta gets us drawing Squiggle Birds, puts us through “pass it on” sketching – and then a “describe and draw” exercise.

“Who’s this person? What happens afterwards? Does he get a new coat? Or is he gonna throw him into the water? Or is he gonna strangle him?”

– Eva-Lotta Lamm

(Listening time: 58 minutes, transcript)

References:

• Full transcript for this episode
• Eva-Lotta Lamm
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evalottalamm/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evalottchen/
  • Website: https://www.evalotta.net/
• James, Per and Eva-Lotta’s sketches from this episode (PDF)
• Exercise 3 photo (don’t look before you listen if you want ot join in!)
• Eva-Lotta’s sketching user scenarios presentation at FBTB 2023 (YouTube)
  • Get a 10% discount on your FBTB 2024 ticket by using the code UXPODCAST
  • Massively discounted student tickets are also available!
• [02:00] Introduction to visual notetaking (aka sketchnoting, YouTube)
• [02:00] Sketchnoting: the first 20 hours (YouTube) and Summary of sketchnoting (YouTube)
• [04:00] The Tombow ABT dual brush N75 cool grey 3 pen
• [06:00] Dave Gray and Chris Glynn Squiggle Birds
• [06:00] Dave Gray Squiggle Birds (YouTube)  
• [06:00] How Dave Gray makes his sketch videos 
• [12:00] Tips for sketchnoting and more Tips for sketchnoting 
• [21:00] Sketching interactions 
• [21:00] Sketchnoting with Mike Rohde 
• [35:00] Collaborative storytelling 
• [35:00] Links to different types of storytelling in UX work 
• [38:00] Sketching and the design process 
• [38:00] Sketching and its importance when designing a logo 
• [38:00] Sketching and ideation in design 
• [38:00] Sketching exercises 
• [38:00] Getting stakeholders to sketch 
• [43:00] Exercise 3 photo
• Recommended listening:
  • Episode 234: Visual thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm
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This conversation was inspired by FBTB 2023 and recorded at UXLx 2023.