Enhance your communication skills with sketching
Visual communication is fast becoming a more valued way for people to express themselves, both in a personal and a business context. After spending most of my life doodling in the margins and drawing as a rare pass-time I was introduced to sketchnoting, which has allowed me make drawing part of my daily routine.
At the March Product Anonymous meetup I shared the benefits of visual communication with an enthusiastic group including Product Managers, Business Analysts and Developers. In the session I covered why visual communication is awesome and some tips for how to get back into it. I then focussed in on sketchnoting as a skill with my 7 steps to sketchnoting and then we practiced sketchnoting as a group.
The slides are available on slideshare and include the TED Talks we used during the session to practice, and a number of resources and references to further explore visual communication.
For a participants perspective check out Liz Blink’s post:
Thanks so much to Liz and Jen from Product Anonymous for inviting me to run the session, to Brainmates for sponsoring and to the attentive group of sketchers. Most in the group were willing to get their sketchbooks out and have a go. Here are some of the great first sketchnotes which they shared on Twitter.
Sketchnoting with the @product_anon gang at a rather fab Sketchnote session by @_rebeccajackson #sketchnotes pic.twitter.com/Ruv4z6LqBW — George Cockerill (@GeorgeCockerill) March 19, 2015
#sketchnotes with @_rebeccajackson at @product_anon #prodmgmt pic.twitter.com/8MlbzT4dXZ
— Luke Meehan (@lukasm) March 19, 2015
My first #sketchnote attempt at tonight’s @product_anon session. An interesting experience. Thanks @_rebeccajackson! pic.twitter.com/C1wjZKlm3D — Daniel Kinal (@dktpm) March 19, 2015
My 1st #sketchnote incl my little pony and Hulk Hogan’s moustache and arrows @product_anon @_rebeccajackson pic.twitter.com/2KQwcB2PC8
— Koen (@KoenLex) March 21, 2015
@product_anon #sketchnotes pic.twitter.com/X3HqnjyVZ6 — Sally Pryor (@Pryor365) March 19, 2015
My #sketchnotes from the #prodanon meetup on #sketchnoting. How meta! pic.twitter.com/ToQXLW7rwV
— Lisa Overton (@notrevol) March 19, 2015
Reblogged this on Doodle Travel Love and commented:
Real interesting post about the benefits of doodling.
Great post Rebecca, I always had the notion that there was more to doodling, thank you for clarifying the facts. I will no longer excuse my doodle notes when at meetings.
Most welcome. Would love to see some of your meeting doodles.
Let me see if I can dig some out, they’d be quite messy.