Storytelling is an important medium in our culture and often takes the form of folktales and myths. Humans are hardwired to listen and learn from stories, and as children, our first forays into the world of literature are through picture-books. We are also all born with the ability to communicate visually, and drawing has been shown to develop along the same pathways as language therefore developing this is simply a matter of learning and practice. The purpose of this tutorial is to offer attendees a space to explore and develop their visual thinking, sketching and note-taking skills whilst obtaining constructive feedback from the tutors. Those attending will leave the tutorial with the confidence to engage actively with sketching on a day to day basis. Attendees will be encouraged to apply what they have learnt to their current research or employment. The half day tutorial will take place on Monday 24 October at NordiCHI’2016, Gothenburg Sweden. It will offer attendees a space to learn and practice visual thinking and sketching https://sketchinghci.wordpress.com/

1. Using sketching
to emphasise
and elaborate
on HCI research
Dr. Makayla Lewis & Miriam Sturdee

2. Dr Makayla M. Lewis
Miriam Sturdee
Each other!
Introductions…

3. Making marks

4. Making marks
Dr Makayla Lewis

5. Making marks
Dr Makayla Lewis

6. It starts with a doodle…
Philippe Starck
Dan Roam
Richard Feynman
Sketching in HCI

7. Brainstorming ideas…
Sketching in HCI

8. Participatory sketching
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

9. Day in my life
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

10. Participants as active researchers
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

11. Participants as active researchers
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

12. Participants as active researchers
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

13. Sketching interactions
Rasmussen 2016
Sketching in HCI

14. Design futures
Sketching in HCI
Ishii 2014

15. Design futures
Sketching in HCI

16. Storytelling
Sketching in HCI
Miriam Sturdee

17. Listening to discussions
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

18. Listening at conferences
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

19. Listening in meetings
Sketching in HCI
Dr Makayla Lewis

20. • Generating ideas
• Prototyping
• Device/application development
• User scenarios
• Future use-cases …
Sketching research

21. • Sketching User Scenarios (Buxton)
• RTD Comics (Dykes 2016)
• Sketching for UI design (Landay 1995)
• Collaborative design (Craft 2009)
• Storyboarding (Truong 2006)
• And so on…
Sketching research

22. … I CAN’T DRAW
So why don’t we
sketch more?

23. Cohn, 2012
Explaining “I can’t draw”
Language and drawing develop in the same way
Practice is all that separates them
Arts not taken seriously in school at later ages
If you can learn a language you can learn to draw
Everyone can draw…
honest!
… I CAN DRAW

24. It’s not all about the photo realism
… it’s about personal style
Be it simple...
...or complex
Everyone can
draw… honest!
… I CAN DRAW

25. Let’s build a
language
Dr Makayla Lewis

26. Faces and
Emotions

27. Napkin Game
Faces and
Emotions
• Form pairs
• Draw a squiggle or scribble
• Pass it to your partner
• Turn it into a person.

28. Take 2 post-it notes write
down something you find
familiar to your research or
HCI in general.
Visual Library

29. Exercise #3
Lettering
Using Alan Martello Lettering Cheat
Sheet Practice Writing the Following:
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy
dog.

30. HCI Improv
No acting required!
1.Suggest a type of technology
2.Suggest a user group
3.Suggest a place or situation of use…
Draw your prototype, suggesting features
and analysis using the skills you have
learnt today.

31. Example

32. Storyboard
Storyboard
Make a illustrated user
scenario using your
favourite HCI improv
Work in Pairs

33. Resources
References
https://sketchinghci.wordpress.com/references/

34. Observations
Dr Makayla Lewis
Miriam Sturdee

35. Contact us
Dr. Makayla M. Lewis
Twitter: @maccymacx
www.makaylalewis.co.uk
@sn_hangout @sketchnoteLDN
Miriam Sturdee
Twitter: @AsMirry
m.sturdee@lancaster.ac.uk