SKETCHING A Creative Problem Solving Tool Duncan Brown : @detyro : Head of User Experience Rafael Lüder : @rafael_lueder UX Designer

Faraday’s  Diary:  August  29,  1831

 Edison's  Phonograph  Sketch  1877

Your dual CPU…

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A metaphor borrowed from this great book

L-mode

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L-mode

Verbal Analytic

Symbolic Abstract Temporal Rational Digital Logical Linear

R-mode

Non-Verbal Synthetic Intuitive Concrete Spatial

Non-Rational Analogic holistic

Non-Linear

Having a shared bus leads to cognitive conflicts

Inducing Cognitive Conflict

Inducing Cognitive Conflict

Inducing Cognitive Conflict

1.  Draw  horizontal  lines  at  the  top  and  boHom  of  your  profile  

2.  Now  draw  the  missing  profile,  naming  the  parts  as  you  go:  forehead,  nose  etc.  

 3.  If  you  experience  confusion  as  you  

draw.  Observe  this  as  it  happens  

4.  When  complete  go  back  and  mark  the  points  where  you  experienced  ‘blocks’.  

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The line

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Line Types

Experiment to find your own ‘signature style’ There are no BAD drawings!

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Shapes

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Spatial Relationship

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Form & shadow

Negative Space

Negative Space

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Negative Space

DUNCAN

Negative Space

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Negative space

Let’s Raise The Bar a Bit…

1.   DON’T  turn  the  drawing  around  unWl  you  have  finished.  

2.  Start  anywhere  you  want.  DON’T  try  to  figure  out  what  you  are  looking  at  in  the  upside-­‐down  image.  

3.   DO  not  try  to  draw  the  enWre  outline  of  the  form  and  then  “fill  in”  the  parts.  

4.  If  you  talk  to  yourself  at  all,  use  only  the  language  of  vision.  DON’T  name  the  parts.  

5.  If  some  parts  seem  to  force  their  names  on  you  try  to  focus  on  these  parts  as  just  shapes.  

6.  Everything  you  need  to  draw  is  right  in  front  of  your  eyes.  DON’T  make  it  complicated.  

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Analog drawing

 1. Fold  a  sheet  of  paper  as  illustrated.    

2. Unfold  the  paper  and  label  the  squares:  Anger,  Joy,  Peacefulness,  Depression,  Energy,  Loneliness,  Femininity    

3. Add  a  human  quality  or  emoWon    of  your  choice  in  the  last  square    

4. The  only  thing  you  MUST  NOT  DO    is  use  any  symbols:  hearts,  stars,    quesWon  marks,  lightening  bolts  etc.    

5. As  you  consider  what  to  draw  think  back  to  a  Wme  when  you  last  had    the  emoWon  or  experience.  

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Review/discuss

 1. Choose  a  problem  or  think  up  one  of  your  own  

2.   Draw  a  frame…  any  shape  freeform  or  regular,  this  will  ‘frame’  your  problem  

3. Remember  there  is  no  good  or  bad  right  or  wrong  way  of  doing  these  drawings  

4. The  only  thing  you  MUST  NOT  DO  is  use  any  symbols:  hearts,  stars,  quesWon  marks,  lightening  bolts  etc.  

5. As  you  consider  what  to  draw  think  back  to  a  Wme  when  you  last  had  the  emoWon  or  experience.  

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Review/discuss

Other techniques

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Pocket-Pics

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Pure Contour Drawing

References/Reading

Pragmatic Thinking & Learning Refactor your Wetware Andy Hunt

References/Reading

Drawing on The Artist Within How to Release Your hidden Creativity Betty Edwards

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References/Reading

The NEW Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain Betty Edwards

References/Reading

Thinking with a Pencil Henning Nelms (out of print)