Jose Berengueres

Sketch Thinking

Visualize. Think. Win.

What happens when people sketch better?

Jose Berengueres

Group IQ

Sketching
skills

What happens if you cant sketch?

...YOU WILL
NEVER KNOW
World AIDS Day | Beauty Bleus

What is the best sketching tool?

Why felt pen is better than ball pen

because sharpies traces are more predictable (higher lateral friction)

How to sketch people better

Stick man

Tooth man
(good for drawing crowds)

Star man

Star man versatility

neutral

pointing

ballet

Head elevation vs. age

young

old

older

Exercise: Draw the largest crowd you can (30 sec).

Why you need to build a sketching vocabulary

Sketching skill

Storify
Flow
Emotions
Symbols

Punctuation

Comas
Sketching
Vocabulary

Containers for ideas

ARROWS

HELP YOU

CREATE
FLOW

use frames and arrows to storify.

Sketching moods: The eyes

happy

sad

O
crossed

resignation

Drawing Age: Use of eye & mouth

toddler

kid

young

adult

Use eye-mouth separation to express age...

toddler

kid

young

adult

In general, age is proportional to eye - mouth dispersion...

Granma vs. Toddler

toddler

granma*

... Except for the granma case, where proportions

become again those of a toddler* - Akira Toriyama.

Exercise. Graphic vocabulary

Try to sketch these keywords (in less than 10 seconds each) :
love, robot, key, collaboration, communication flower, house,
time, summer, cold, hot, hope, athletic, hungry

Teach to steal by forcing people to share ...

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Typography matters...

Typography
Maters
... Let me say that again.

Typography ...

Test your storyfication skills

1 Watch Paolo Cardini Talk Forget multitasking, try monotasking
2 Summarise the talk in a A4 paper with sticky notes

Share and steal from your peers...

3 Share (in pairs)
4 Steal peers best elements
5 Iterate x three times

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Workshop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

Use the circle to treat each work equally

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Happy Sketching!
Workhop by Alli McKee at the d.school, Aug 2015

About the author

Jose Berengueres received a Masters in Electrical Engineering in

Barcelona and a PhD in bio-inspired robots from Tokyo
Institute of Technology. He has taught Design Thinking and
Business Models Innovation in California, Germany and Mexico. He
also consults on UX for a data visualisation company. In 2014
he was mentor at StartupWeekend Dubai. He currently is
assistant professor at UAE University.