mapla.blogg.se - Fun with doodles

I can also connect with the information - or make connections to other ideas - quicker when I can see everything laid out in one page. In my case, I have found I can also remember visual cues better (and longer) than text. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Doodling allowed me to do that in a way that was respectful to others (I was capturing meeting notes) and prevented me reacting in ways I might otherwise regret.Īssisting Recall.

I've often felt overwhelmed (think large conferences) or stressed (think contentious meetings) and needed a way to calm myself or just distract my mind by focusing on something else. The process of doodling is a fun way to visualize information in new ways that can help "out of the box" thinking. It's well-known that taking a creative break allows your brain to process things in new ways, which in turn can drive innovation around ideas. I started sketchnoting at tech conferences, then in meetings, then just for fun, for 3 reasons:įostering Creativity.

Denise Yu's Telling Stories with Doodles workshop in the Write track.īut for today I'm going to talk about Telling Stories With Doodles and what I learnt from this gifted artist and empathetic technologist.

show value) - this is going to be a future post so keep an eye out.

Heidi Waterhouses's The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers: Tautology and Business Value keynote which was must-know rules if working in tech (tl:dr it's not personal.

Ana Medina's Navigating Mental Health as a Human keynote which was raw, immensely brave and incredibly important.

Three talks yesterday really stuck with me as I looked back on "Speak Day" at Write/Speak/Code 2019. It's 5AM on Sunday and I was thinking about topics for my post today. This is the first post in a multi-part series about the Write/Speak/Code conference, what I learnt from attending it in 2019, and why I think it's important for us to support these events.