Your career may revolve around words, but knowing a little about sketching can help you understand complicated concepts, communicate more efficiently, drive improvements to the products you work on – or move your career in a new direction! Learn how technical writers, content strategists, and others can improve user experiences with sketching, making mockups, and even creating interactive prototypes – without touching Photoshop or software code. In this session, you will learn: • The difference between sketches, mockups, and prototypes • Basic tools available to help create mockups and prototypes • How to quickly make basic sketches *** Presented as a workshop-format session at Lavacon 2015 in New Orleans. ***