Sketching Interfaces

Talk on sketching from Asbury Agile 2012.

Transcript

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 + COMMUNICATE TO FAIL FASTER TO FIND THE 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 Y IS PAWESOME
23. UGL Y IS THE POINT
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 Y 1 COLOR • 1 PENCIL/PEN
27. 1-2 LEVELS OF FIDELITY ABSTRACT (Thumbnails) DETAILED (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; More is better Get precious Embrace constraints; 1 pen / 1 color Focus on details too early Explain your work Forget the bigger 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. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! GREAT STUFF
36. LIGHT READING http://goo.gl/XeIqG Visual Alphabet Dave Gray http://braindoodles.net Visual Thinking Tutorials Brain Doodles http://goo.gl/bQt11 Think you can’t draw? Showcase 6 visual thinkers Why We Sketch Jared Spool Sketch Sketch Sketch 52 Weeks of UX Konigi Notebook on Sketching http://goo.gl/zEorJ http://goo.gl/45Kvi http://goo.gl/FVfu9
37. SOURCES Josef Albers Color Studies http://www.artknowledgenews.com/ 15_08_2011_22_23_30_the_louisiana_museum_exhibition_shows_a_ne w_side_of_josef_albers.html http://albersfoundation.org/Albers.php?inc=Galleries&i=J_1 Paul Backet Sketching with Purpose on Core 77 http://core77.com/blog/education/ sketching_approaching_the_paper_with_purpose_by_paul_backett_2042 2.asp Galileo Sketches of the objects around Jupiter from his journal in 1610 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 Gene Lu Nike Air Force 1 Sketches http://genelu.com/2012/07/nike-air-force-1/ Dieter Rams Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams. http://www.amazon.com/Less-More-Design-Ethos-Dieter/dp/ 3899553977 http://www.domusweb.it/en/from-the-archive/alessandro-mendini- interviews-dieter-rams Richard Serra http://www.depont.nl/en/collection/artists/artist/werk_id/344/kunstenaar/ serra/ http://zigzagbluesblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/richard-serra-1939.html