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Sketchnotes: Doodling with a purpose

Mike Rohde — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:44 +0000

I gave a talk at the Milwaukee Likemind group on Friday August 20th and my friend Jim Raffel was in attendance.

He’s written up his thoughts in the article Sketchnotes: Doodling with a purpose, in which he talks about the use of sketchnotes in his business practice:

“Doodling. For whatever reason holding my attention in a long meeting is a challenge. I’ve always taken notes because I could doodling aimlessly in the margins of my notes. Taking notes the Sketchnotes way allows me to doodle with a purpose.

I now draw keywords in large type and then instead of doodling I color in the letters when I find my mind drifting. Strangely enough I find I listen more carefully while my hands are busy coloring.”

Thanks Jim!

UXCampLondon 1.5 Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:09:22 +0000

I love these 2 color sketchnotes by Alexander Baxevanis from a UXCampLondon talk by Fabien Marry on the iPad, why it matters and why it’s different.

See Fabien’s slides on Slideshare and check out Alexander’s entire set from UXCampLondon 1.5.

UX Australia 2010 Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:31:15 +0000

Great collection of sketchnotes from UX Australia by Matthew Magain, creative director at SitePoint.

Matthew capturing the event a day at a time on his SitePoint blog with separate entries for each day:

Sketchnoting UX Australia 2010: Day 1
Sketchnoting UX Australia 2010: Day 2

Nice work Matthew! Thanks for the tip Michelle George.

UPA 2010 Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:05:27 +0000

Beautiful sketchnotes by Amanda Jahn from UPA 2010 in Munuch.

Be sure to check out Amanda’s full Flickr set too!

Blog Indiana 2010 Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:52:59 +0000

My friend John Uhri did a sketchnote video promo (above) and captured sketchnotes at Blog Indiana 2010. Check out John’s blog post and the complete Blog Indiana 2010 Flickr set.

Here’s a sample of a session sketchnote by John:

DrawCamp Sketchnotes Video

Mike Rohde — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:56:47 +0000

Here’s a video my friend Pete Prodoehl captured of me sketchnoting and explaining my notes at DrawCamp Milwaukee in June, 2010.

Here are scans of the sketchnotes from this video on Flickr:

Thanks Pete for creating and sharing this video!

Mike

House Industries ADCMW Talk Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:21:09 +0000

More great sketchnotes from Carolyn Sewell, this time captured at the House Industries’ Rich Roat presentation for ADCMW (June 2, 2010) and mentioned on the House Industries blog by Rich Roat.

Love your typography Carolyn — keep it coming!

Austin Kleon’s Reinventing Poetry TEDx Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:46:43 +0000

My friend and Visual Note-Taking partner in crime, Austin Kleon just did a talk at TEDxPennQuarter and I just love how he explains his process of preparation for the talk:

The TEDxPennQuarter folks asked me to give a 10-minute talk around the theme of “reinventing,” with the (not-at-all-lofty!) title, “Reinventing Poetry.”

It started out like almost everything I do: with doodling.

Above is a sample of some sketchnoting/doodling he did to sort out the ideas for his slides and talk, which goes to show this idea of sketchnoting can be applied in so many different ways.

Be sure to watch the video on his blog post as well.

Agile Training Day Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:20:49 +0000

Very nice set of sketchnotes by Tim Malbon, co-founder of the London firm Made by Many. His sketchnotes capture the firm’s recent Agile training day in just 10 pages. Great work Tim!

Influencer Project Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:55:47 +0000

Have a look at Michelle Malot’s sketchnotes from the Influencer Project.

Here’s her brief description:

HDYI created these sketchnotes during the Influencer Project conference. Influencer Project is the shortest marketing conference featuring 60 thoughts leaders in 60 minutes.

Read her post Influencer Project Sketchnotes to learn more about the project.