Talk on sketching from Asbury Agile 2012. You can read the speaking notes at Konigi: http://konigi.com/book/sketch-book

1. ASBURY PARK 10.03.12 MIKE ANGELES

2. I have a confession to make ...

3. IF (DESIRE > ABILITY)

4. EMPTY YOUR CUP

5. LET GO

6. BUXTON + ROAM

7. WHAT IS A SKETCH?

8. SKETCHING
!=
DRAWING

9. WHY WE SKETCH
TO THINK TO DOCUMENT TO EXPERIMENT
TO EXPLAIN + TO FAIL TO FIND THE
COMMUNICATE FASTER RIGHT DESIGN

10. WE SKETCH TO THINK

11. TO DOCUMENT

12. TO DOCUMENT

13. TO EXPERIMENT

14. TO COMMUNICATE + EXPLAIN

15. RE: PRODUCT DESIGN

16. DESIGN PROCESS (BUXTON)

17. TO FAIL FASTER
Selection Point Failure Success

18. TO FIND THE RIGHT DESIGN

20. ANYONE CAN SKETCH

22. UGL IS PAWESOME
Y

23. UGL IS THE POINT
Y

24. CAPTURE THE ESSENCE
AND MOVE ON

25. EMBRACE CONSTRAINTS
Telling yourself,
“Oh, you have all the time in the world,
you have all the money in the world,
you have all the colors in the palette
you want, anything you want,”
I mean, that just kills creativity.
—Jack White

26. EMBRACE CONSTRAINTS
FOR EXAMPLE:
• USE ONL 1 COLOR
Y
• 1 PENCIL/PEN

27. 1-2 LEVELS OF FIDELITY
ABSTRACT DETAILED
(Thumbnails) (Words + Controls)

28. IDEAS COME AT ANY TIME

29. IDEAS COME AT ANY TIME

30. EXPLAIN
OR IDEAS WILL DIE

31. DISCUSSION
---------------- over ----------------
DOCUMENTATION

32. KNOW WHEN TO STOP

33. DO DO NOT
Work fast and loose;
Get precious
More is better
Embrace constraints; Focus on details too
1 pen / 1 color early
Forget the bigger
Explain your work
picture
Stop and build

34. A FINAL WORD
It’s all about how you’re putting
what you do together. The
elements you’re using don’t
matter. Purity of human
expression and experience is not
confined to guitars, to tubes, to
turntables, to microchips.
There’s no right way, no pure way
of doing it—there’s just doing it.
From Bruce Springsteen's inspiring 2012 SXSW Keynote Speech.

35. GREAT STUFF
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

36. LIGHT READING
Why We Sketch Sketch Sketch Sketch Konigi
Jared Spool 52 Weeks of UX Notebook on Sketching
http://goo.gl/zEorJ http://goo.gl/45Kvi http://goo.gl/FVfu9
Visual Alphabet Visual Thinking Tutorials Think you can’t draw?
Dave Gray Brain Doodles Showcase 6 visual thinkers
http://goo.gl/XeIqG http://braindoodles.net http://goo.gl/bQt11

37. SOURCES
Josef Albers Gene Lu
Color Studies Nike Air Force 1 Sketches
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/ http://genelu.com/2012/07/nike-air-force-1/
15_08_2011_22_23_30_the_louisiana_museum_exhibition_shows_a_ne
w_side_of_josef_albers.html Dieter Rams
http://albersfoundation.org/Albers.php?inc=Galleries&i=J_1 Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams.
http://www.amazon.com/Less-More-Design-Ethos-Dieter/dp/
Paul Backet 3899553977
Sketching with Purpose on Core 77 http://www.domusweb.it/en/from-the-archive/alessandro-mendini-
http://core77.com/blog/education/ interviews-dieter-rams
sketching_approaching_the_paper_with_purpose_by_paul_backett_2042
2.asp Richard Serra
http://www.depont.nl/en/collection/artists/artist/werk_id/344/kunstenaar/
Galileo serra/
Sketches of the objects around Jupiter from his journal in 1610 http://zigzagbluesblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/richard-serra-1939.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=2259
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Galileo_Journal-
browse.jpg
Frank Gehry
Disney sketches
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/disney2/
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/disney2/10.Disney.gif