Using the 6-8-5 Method, you can rapidly generate ideas and improve your user interface designs. Join us and respond to business requirements with quick sketches, validating and fine-tuning through structured pitching and critiquing. You won't need a laptop - just bring your favorite pencil and get ready to sketch!

1. Live! With 6-8-5
Rapid Sketching for Better Design
Russ Unger, GE Capital Americas, Experience Design Director
@russu
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

2. Live! with 6-8-5
Rapid Sketching for Better Design
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

3. “
I do a bale of sketches,
A pound of observation,
Then an ounce of painting.
one eye,
a piece of hair.
Gardner Cox
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

4. THIS IS A PRESENTATION ABOUT SKETCHING.
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

5. Not This Kind...
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6. This Kind.
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7. Digital tools make everything easier, right?
WHY BOTHER SKETCHING?
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

8. A Few Reasons:
• Great for Communicating Ideas
• Allows Us to Record What We See & Hear
• Helps Us Work Through Thinking / Ideas
• Helps Us Reflect What We’re Hearing
• Documentation
Source: UIE Brain Sparks Blog: http://www.uie.com/articles/why_sketching/
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

9. A Few Reasons:
• Great for Communicating Ideas
• Allows Us to Record What We See & Hear
• Helps Us Work Through Thinking / Ideas
• Helps Us Reflect What We’re Hearing
• Documentation
Source: UIE Brain Sparks Blog: http://www.uie.com/articles/why_sketching/
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

10. Working Through Ideas
Source: Sketching User Experiences - The Workbook by Bill Buxton
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

11. MVE
Minimum Viable Experience?
• Multiple Lo-Fi Design Concepts
• Iterative Evaluation
• Some User/Customer Insight (ish)
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

12. Sketching
>
Talking
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

13. Our design isn’t the only design.
SKETCHING EXAMPLES
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

14. The Work We Do (By Ourselves-ish)
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

15. Collaborative Design (with Clients & Users)
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

16. Other Uses...
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

17. ...And Other People Do It, Too...
Adam Savage
Mythbusters
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

18. ...And Other People Do It, Too...
Jim Henson
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19. Sketching is Kinda Everywhere.
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

20. THE 6-8-5
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22. The goal is to generate 6-8 sketches
with the focus being on
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QUANTITY over QUALITY.
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

23. Design a Conference App for Smart Phones
LET’S DO IT!
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

24. We Need Some Requirements
• Requirement 1
• Requirement 2
• Requirement 3
• Requirement 4
• Requirement 5
• Requirement 6
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25. The 8-Up
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27. Those Requirements Again:
• Requirement 1
• Requirement 2
• Requirement 3
• Requirement 4
• Requirement 5
• Requirement 6
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

28. WHAT NEXT?
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

29. Now What?
• Critique
• Further the Design
• More Critique
• Usability Testing
• Etc.
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

30. Rules of Critique*
•Do treat each other with respect – remember your idea is next
•Do encourage and embrace the craziness
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•Do keep on track – time is limited
•Do get new ideas on paper – write, draw, scribble
•Do build on the ideas of others
•Do question the design
•Don’t judge or shoot down ideas based on your preferences
•Don’t talk over each other – everyone has a voice
•Don’t be a jackass!
*applied to real-life engineers - results may vary
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

31. Further the Design
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

32. Further the Design
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

33. Usability Testing
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

34. SO WHAT?
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

35. Constraints-Based (6-8-5) Sketching Provides:
• Rapid Ideation
• Iterative Design Exploration
• Validation Against Requirements
• Group/Team Collaboration
• Inexpensive Opportunities for Data-Driven Design
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

36. “
I do a bale of sketches,
A pound of observation,
Then an ounce of painting.
one eye,
a piece of hair.
Gardner Cox
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas

37. Thank You!
Russ Unger | @russu | GE Capital Americas