Sketching

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WHAT DO YOU NEED?
  • Knowledge about the challenge
  • sketchpad
  • Discussion Channel(s)
TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY:
  • Individual and/or Group
SUGGESTED TIME FOR ACTIVITY:
  • Min. 2 Hours
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:
  • Low

Sketching is a great method to quickly try out and present ideas while enabling visualization to more easily work through a challenge and an idea and also enabling different interpretations of a sketch to encourage new perspective and more ideas.

What can you do?
Express and explore ideas through doodling, rough drawing, or sketching freely, where your artistic skills are not in the spotlight.
Keep an open mind and don’t limit yourselves.
Sketching can be done collectively or individually and then shared with others.
You can sketch concepts, process, overview of gathered information, metaphors…
Explore different interpretations of sketches and discuss it collectively.
Use it to organize information, to explore inspiration, to build on the idea, to clarify issues…

You can also do the structured 4-STEP SKETCH in the following order:

  • NOTES – During 20 minutes, individually take into consideration everything displayed and discussed so far, then take notes of what the main, important points are.
  • IDEAS – During next 20 minutes, individually take a look at the notes and try to make brief sketches and notes of possible solutions.
  • CRAZY 8’S – Section your individual board into 8 sections and work further on your ideas by rapidly sketching eight variations of your ideas (spend 1 minute per sketch, all together 8 minutes).
  • SOLUTION SKETCH – Take 30 minutes of individual sketching to make your best idea more specific and detailed. All of your sketches can then be shared with the team, discussed and voted upon

More information about 4-step-sketch here.