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Building Creative Confidence through Sketching
The document outlines a workshop titled 'Building Creative Confidence Through Sketching' led by Rob Colenso, focusing on overcoming fear and rediscovering creative confidence through sketching techniques. The agenda includes networking, warm-up sketching, and multiple design studio rounds aimed at refining ideas and fostering collaboration. The workshop ultimately encourages participants to embrace sketching, regardless of their artistic abilities, as a means to enhance creative outcomes and problem-solving skills.
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- 1. Building Creative Confidence ThroughSketching Or, ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love the Sharpie’ @robcolenso
- 2. Tonight’s agenda 6:30 –6:45 Networking 6:45 – 7:00 Introductions 7:00 – 7:15 Workshop overview 7:15 – 7:25 Warm-up sketching 7:30 – 7:45 Design Studio, Round 1 – 6-Ups 7:45 – 8:00 Design Studio, Round 2 – Remix & Iterate 8:00 – 8:30 Design Studio, Round 3 – Rapid Collaboration 8:30 – 8:45 Group presentations 8:45 – 9:00 Feedback and debrief
- 3. About me Hi, I’mRob!
- 4. Oh, and onemore thing …
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- 7. So why thehell am I up here, right?!
- 8. Being a terribleartist is my superpower.
- 9. ‘Our job isn’tto teach them creativity. It’s to help them rediscover their creative confidence.’ – Tom & David Kelley ‘Reclaim Your Creative Confidence,’ Tom and David Kelley, Harvard Business Review, December 2012
- 10. So what holdspeople back?
- 12. FEAR. Of the messy unknown. Ofbeing judged. Of the first step. Of losing control. ‘Reclaim Your Creative Confidence,’ Tom and David Kelley, Harvard Business Review, December 2012
- 13. Cool. Makes sense. Buthow does sketching help?
- 14. If we canget our partners to pick up a , , it unlocks huge potential for faster, better outcomes.
- 15. It helps usread minds
- 16. It helps usalign
- 17. It helps usbuild buy-in
- 18. On a short enoughtimeline, even great artists scribble.
- 19. So here’s wheremy superpower (and this workshop framework) come in:
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- 21. I can’t draw.And so can YOU!
- 22. Design Studio structure Sketch Present &Critique Converge Prioritize 1. 2. 3. 4. Within this framework, you should feel free to adapt and remix methods as needed to meet your goals…
- 23. Where sketching fits rawrefined Post-It ideas Half-sheet ideas ‘Paper on the table’ Idea dashboard • Give a title/idea name • One-line fast description • Annotated sketch/diagram • Give a quick title/headline • Sketch to provide visual cues • Large tabletop sheet, or whiteboard • Build on a Post-It Idea or a Half-Sheet idea with teammates • Give a title/idea name • One-line fast description • Annotated sketch/diagram • 2-5 attribute categories that add detail – differentiator, assets needed, etc Source: Design Thinking manual, Capital One You are here
- 24. Your sketches will looklike this:
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- 28. Typical sketch objects Ifyou can draw a , a , and a , you know everything you need to know to start sketching! Sketch objects by Rachel Graves
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- 31. Warm-Up 1: Squiggle Birds! Graba sheet of paper and a pen. We’re gonna draw some birds. 5 mins
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- 33. Warm-Up 2: What’s onyour mind? Grab another sheet of paper and a pen. And now sketch something that’s been on your mind today. 5 mins
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- 35. Our Design Challenge: Design a solutionfor displaying flowers in your home
- 36. Individual Ideation: Round1 Directions: • Individual work, using a ‘Six-Up’ template • Six different concepts, or variations on a theme • Go for quantity! Don’t take too much time on each sketch • Push your thinking as you go through each sketch 6 mins
- 37. Present & Critique:Round 1 Directions: • Each participant gets 2 minutes to present and get feedback • Presenter should explicitly state the problem they’re solving • Keep feedback brief, focusing on clarifying the presenter’s intent • For ex., ‘how does this address the user’s problem’? 10 mins
- 38. Individual Ideation: Round2 Directions: • Individual work, using a ‘One-Up’ template • Take your original six ideas and, using your feedback, refine your thinking into one ‘big’ idea on a single sheet • The goal: Pick the idea that has the most merit and develop a more evolved version of that idea 6 mins
- 39. Present & Critique:Round 2 10 mins Directions: • Each participant gets 2 minutes to present and get feedback • Presenter should explicitly state the problem they’re solving • Keep feedback brief, focusing on clarifying the presenter’s intent • For ex., ‘how does this feature address the user’s problem’?
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- 41. Team Ideation 20 mins Directions: • Each team should converge on a single concept • The goal: Narrow to the idea the team believes is strongest • On a large Post-It, sketch key components and user flows • To get to consensus, you’ll need to prioritize and pare back features – save the ones that don’t make it in a ‘parking lot’
- 42. Ideation #protip To pushyour thinking as a group, try these methods: S - Substitute C - Combine A - Adapt M - Modify, Magnify or Minimize P - Put to another use E - Eliminate R - Reverse or Rearrange
- 43. Present & Critique:Round 3 15 mins Directions: • Each team gets 3 minutes to present and get feedback • Presenters should clearly state the problem they’re solving
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- 46. Resources Dead Trees • ‘SixThinking Hats’ – Edward de Bono • ‘The Design Studio Method’ – Brian Sullivan • ‘Sketching User Experiences’ – Bill Buxton (plus workbook) • ‘Lean UX’ – Jeff Gothelf • ‘The UX Team of One’ – Leah Buley • ‘The Back of the Napkin’ – Dan Roam Interwebs • ‘Facilitating an effective design studio workshop’ – Kate Kaplan, Nielsen Norman Group • ‘What we talk about when we talk about sketching’ – Dane Petersen, Adaptive Path • ‘Charrettes (design sketching): ½ inspiration, ½ buy-in’ – Kara Pernice, Nielsen Norman Group • ‘The Design Studio Method’ – Todd Zaki Warfel, Vimeo
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