You Too Can Be A Sketching Machine!
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Designers, Developers, and PMs - The power of sketching lies in using sketching to ideate, iterate, and communicate our ideas. It is time to gain the confidence you need to sketch in person or in front of a group. By harnessing the power of sketching we all can become sketching machines.
You Too Can Be A Sketching Machine!
Sketching is a crucial skill that spans all job titles. It helps with brainstorming ideas, iterating through concepts, and communicating our ideas to others. Whether working individually or in a group, our ability to sketch helps take the abstract ideas out of heads and into the real world. If you’re not comfortable sketching then there is little chance that your ideas will stick with you, your team members, and even your clients.
Don’t worry—the confidence you need to put your pen to paper and start to sketch is close at hand! With the addition of a few simple approaches to your daily routine, you too can harness the power of sketching and become a sketching machine. Please bring a pen (Yes, pen. I will explain why in the presentation), a highlighter, a Post-It notepad, and a notebook. We will do some fun sketching activities so you can experience the power of sketching firsthand.
Also, this is a meet up, and you will have the opportunity to actually meet and collaborate with people.
Here's the agenda for the 2 hours that we will have:
- Guided networking session (15 mins)
- Presentation and sketching workshop (60 mins)
- Community shares and asks session (15 mins)
About the speaker - Rizwan is a UX Designer at Closed Loop in Roseville, CA. He creates intuitive, persuasive, and profitable user experiences for the Fortune 500. His passion lies in solving design problems while keeping the goals of the business and the user in the forefront. He loves sharing his knowledge with others to help them be the best they can. Rizwan is the creator of the UX Alphabet app, a handy reference app of UX concepts. When he isn't designing, he is usually at home drawing dinosaurs and cars, dinosaurs in cars, and other combinations of dinosaurs and cars with his twin boys. You can find him on Twitter as @rizwanjavaid (http://twitter.com/rizwanjavaid) or his website at rizwanjavaid.com (http://rizwanjavaid.com/).
Food: We will not be providing any food. So please either eat before you get here, or if some folks want, we can all get food at a nearby restaurant after the meetup.
About your host Naz (linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazmulidris), medium (http://medium.com/@nazmul)) - Xoogler, entrepreneur, leader, coder, designer, dancer, TaiChi'er, Yogi, racer, unblocker, storyteller. I'm about authenticity and empowerment | Presented @ IO13 & 14 | Made UXD G+ community (http://bit.ly/uxdcommunity) | Made UXD YouTube show (http://bit.ly/uxdplaylist) | Made Udacity class on mobile design (http://bit.ly/uxdclass)
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See you soon!
Naz
You Too Can Be A Sketching Machine!