As I’ve written about before (and in my Presto Sketching book!), storyboards give you great bang for buck when you want clarity and direction in any project, especially for product and service design. Here’s how to construct the most essential ingredient: the story itself. Storyboards …
Read MoreWhy your project needs storyboarding
There’s that fantastic time in any product or service design project where an idea is just starting to take shape, and spread its wings. Will it be The Next Big Thing? Will it be able to stand up to the barrage of oncoming questions, like: …
Read MoreHere’s how AI visualises your company’s vision
I had a play with MidJourney to find out if it would steal my job as a visual practitioner or not, and the results were – well – comforting… Technology has always pushed our craft forward Ever since we humans first started using stones rather …
Read More5 principles of great layout for your visuals
Your visual communication pieces can land with your audience or miss them entirely, depending on what layout you choose. This post shows you the principles behind why some layouts work better than others. Layout: your secret sauce for communication success One of the questions I …
Read MoreA guide to sketchnote layouts
Here’s a set of sketchnote layouts to try, plus some tips about which layouts to use for which particular purpose. Lead them down the garden path One of the questions I get asked a lot in the training sessions I do about sketchnoting (or visual …
Read MoreMapping your user’s day with the User Clock Sketch
See your user’s experience of their day through their eyes with the User Clock Sketch. The power of mapping user experiences Are you involved in making products and services for customers and communities? If so, you’ll know how important it is to make sure your offering matches …
Read MoreBetter visual brainstorming with the Concept Canvas
Making big decisions about which idea or option to invest in amongst a group is really hard. Using the Concept Canvas to visually compare apples to apples makes it a bit easier (includes free PDF). I was in a brainstorming session from hell once. I …
Read MoreEasy ways to show more diversity in your sketches
Life is full of all kinds of people, and your sketches can be too, with these ideas and examples. Do you want your presentations and business communications to be more inclusive, and show more diversity, but you don’t want to use those cheesy contrived multi-racial …
Read More10 ideas to get you inspired to sketch
You want to sketch more…or just start sketching… but it’s hard to know where to start. I hear you. Here’s 10 things to draw, when you don’t know what to draw. I know what it’s like. You want to sketch (or you want to sketch more often), but …
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