Sketching for UX Designers - Boost UX work with pen & paper!

Boost Your UX/UI & Product Design with Sketching

Learn how to significantly enhance your UX, UI, and product design workflow through the power of sketching. This course provides a practical, pen-and-paper approach to ideation and visual thinking.

What You'll Learn:

• Fundamentals of Sketching: Master the basics of drawing and shape creation to build a strong foundation.
• UI Sketching & User Flows: Develop skills in sketching user interfaces, user flows, and UI animations for intuitive designs.
• Storyboarding: Create compelling storyboards to visualize user journeys and product narratives. Learn to effectively draw people, locations, objects, and use visual elements like containers, color, and effects to express process.
• Gestalt Principles in Sketching: A dedicated section explores how to apply Gestalt principles to improve your visual communication.

Course Highlights:

• Drawing Along: Follow along with guided sketching exercises throughout the course.
• Practical Exercises: Quickly develop your sketching skills with engaging exercises.
• Versatile Application: Apply your sketching skills to a wide range of UX design and service design methods, including creating Empathy Maps, User Journey Maps, and Personas.
• Visual Thinking Foundation: Build a strong foundation for other visual thinking techniques like graphic facilitation and sketchnoting.

Why Sketching is Essential for Product Design:

• Leverage Visual Perception: Understand how our brains process images faster than text.
• Uncover Hidden Insights: Reveal potential issues and connections you might miss with traditional methods.
• Facilitate Collaboration: Improve mutual understanding within your team.
• Embrace a Fail-Fast Approach: Quickly iterate on ideas and explore different possibilities.
• Rapid Ideation: Generate a large number of ideas quickly and cost-effectively.

Note: This course focuses on sketching with pen and paper. While the techniques are adaptable, it does not cover using digital sketching tools or tablet workflows.

Course Updates:

• January 25th, 2023: 4 new files added: UI sketching and Storyboarding Pro Tips posters.
• November 16th, 2019: New lecture added: "12 Benefits of Sketching for UX - a summary."
• October 17th, 2017: New course material added: "Sketching for UX Designers WORKBOOK" (24-page workbook with sketching exercises).
• June 5th, 2017: New section added: 40-minute sketching practice activity using Gestalt principles.
• April 15th, 2017: Course Released.