My Ten Favourite UX Tools By Ben Tollady I love working in the field of UX—the challenge of solving complex problems, the subtle combination of creativity, technology and influencing human behaviour. UX fascinates me like no other design discipline. My passion for the field isn't limited to the work. I’d like to share with you my top ten tools and approaches for conducting day-to-day UX work. 1. My two most-used tools are a pen and a pad of grid paper. As for pens, I currently favour the Artline 200 (Fine 0.4mm). For me, sketching is the quickest, easiest way to get ideas out of my head to start exploring them visually. 2. Second to pen-and-paper sketching is collaborative design in front of the whiteboard. Rather than struggle with a problem in isolation, grab some colleagues—preferably with different backgrounds, skills and disciplines—and work through solutions together! 3. Sketch is an interface design app that is gaining popularity as a purpose-built alternative to tools like Photoshop and Illustrator. 4. 6.
Verbal To Visual | Teaching You To Sketch Out Ideas By Hand Neuland AG - Home page Sketchnote Army - A Showcase of Sketchnotes Today's guest is Jake Palmer Jake's bio on Twitter say: Graphic/Web Designer and Illustrator Interactive Media Designer Poker Enthusiast 1. Tell us when you first met Sketchnote/Visual art Saw some of Mike Rhode's work on a site or blog. 2. No more typing reports on conferences I go to. 3. I use pen and moleskine. 4. Just go for it. 5. I think sketchnoting is a great way for people to see information in a way that isn't just text on a computer screen. Bonus. A great addition to the The Sketchnote Handbook. We thank you Jake for sharing with us.
10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century Sketch notes–or graphic notes, or whatever other term you like–are one of the single most important developments in note-taking history. Hold on, give me a second to explain. Exactly why they matter has something to do with the way our brains work, and the explosion of technology, and a little bit of viral success. The point of notes, it seems, is to capture important ideas for future reference. Then Ken Robinson’s Changing Educational Paradigms exploded across the internet, and the sound of the little marker squeaking across the whiteboard became synonymous with digital storytelling. Why? The water cycle has a story to tell that is exceptionally hard to document in an outline form–and impossible to do so engagingly or enthusiastically. And in the era of tablet PCs, smartphones, and instagram, this means everything. As you can see below, they’re not simple words and pictures together–well, done badly they are.