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TOOL SKETCHING
A marker and a piece of paper are all you need to solve problems!
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TANGIBLE sketch a prototype |
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SOLO / TEAM share the results |
SKETCHING A PROTOTYPE
It’s super effective to start your prototype by sketching it out with your team.
Let’s look at this tool in practice using a fictitious example: a company wants to develop a new health-focused mode of transportation based on a bike.
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For more on sketching, read: The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam. |
SKETCHING IS PROTOTYPING
Visual thinking and sketching is about taking advantage of our innate ability to see – both with our eyes and with our mind’s eye – in order to discover ideas that are otherwise invisible, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and then share those ideas with other people in a way they simply “get.”
Welcome to a whole new way of looking at design in business. Whether you’re sketching a new org chart on the whiteboard or sitting around a table drawing simple – maybe funny – pictures on sticky notes, sketching is an incredibly powerful and effective way to communicate your point of view and your ideas.
If you can draw simple shapes, such as a rectangle, triangle, circle, and line, you can visualize your ideas by sketching them.
Dan Roam
Author, The Back of the Napkin
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CHECKLIST
You created more than 20 variations that are really different.
You are able to present the sketches.
NEXT STEP
Gather feedback from others on the prototype.
Use the prototype in an experiment.
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