how i use hand drawing
 

Notes to self: a second look at my notes after immersing in the client’s world.

I stand in many shoes as I ideate — those of the patrons, the producers, the consumers: patrons requesting the innnovation, producers tasked with realizing the product, audiences that will consume the experience.
At right is what a set of meeting notes look like for a visual listener. And how the second color, red, represents second thoughts—my second round of editorial notes atop my initial interview notes.
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The immediacy of capturing a verbalized idea in a visual sketch: it accelerates the discussion — intimately if alone — socially if in dialogue with others.
The acceleration is boosted by each verbalized edit and each revision to the sketch. As in all explorations, course corrections aid arrival.
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Pen colors change to code the progression of notations
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Example interview notes on ruled letter size tablet...
 

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