See > Sort > Sketch
This workshop teaches lo-fi methods for analyzing data from design research and exploring its implications. I presented it with my colleague Kate Rutter at the EPIC 2008 conference. Feel free to download the workshop slides and the workbook below. You'll also find a list of resources that we discussed in the workshop (graciously compiled by Kate). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through Adaptive Path.
Download the workshop slides : 16.6mbDownload the workbook : 5.9mb
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Recommended reading
- The Mind Map Book, by Tony Buzan
- Rapid Viz, by Kurt Hanks and Larry Belliston
- The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam
- Rapid Problem Solving with Post-it Notes, by David Straker
- Thinking with a Pencil, by Henning Nelms
- Books published by the Grove Consultants. These books seem pricey, but they are totally worth it. Note that you can only get them through the Grove Consultants. They have a special process for European orders.
- Graphic Facilitation is an amazing book that goes through the theory, application and practice of graphic facilitation.
- The Fundamentals of Graphic Language is a workbook that teaches the iconography of rapid concept sketching.
- The small-but-powerful Pocket Pics is a little reference book of ideas for more abstract/difficult concepts.
- on Indexed: is a daily collection of humorous graphs and charts. Very insightful.
- on Flickr. Search for...
- mind maps
- graphic recording
- VizThink is a community of visual practitioners. They have an online community, a wiki with great resources, and host conferences throughout the year. www.vizthink.com | wiki.vizthink.com
- visual-literacy.org has a periodic chart of visualizations that quite inspiring.
- The International Forum of Visual Practitioners is a professional association of visual folks.
- David Gray's visual thinking school is a great place to catch up on visual skills and approaches.
- MIT Sketching tutorials are pretty good.
- One of the best ways to practice jotting is during meetings, or (even better) by listening to talk shows on the radio. A few minutes a week will make a big difference in the speed, clarity and potency of your visual notes.
- The Grove Consultants provide consulting, training, books and presentations.
- xPlane does consulting, training and presentations. When you start poking around visualization places, David Grey's name comes up a lot.
- Adaptive Path is a user experience strategy and design firm. Leah and Kate (who presented the See > Sort > Sketch workshop) both work here. Adaptive Path doesn't focus exclusively on visual methods, although we use them a lot. We often post about the topic on our blog.
Updated on October 21, 2008