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. ***
9. “A sketch can look
bad and still work
wonderfully.”
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10. Why do
these things?
Grasp difficult concepts by breaking
into sketches or visualizations.
To explain
People may be more likely to
understand and remember.
To understand
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11. Why do
these things?
Suggest improvements to user
experience.
To create
Be the first to explore some visual
ideas for a new feature.
To improve
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35. •Redesign home screen of LinkedIn app for mobile
•Make 8 sketches
•You have 5 minutes (37 seconds each)
•Explore various ideas
Scenario
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