Saturday, October 6, 2012

4:30pm – 4:45

Wrapup

More details to come on our big event! We’ll be filling out the schedule with some specific workshops, but will also hold some slots open so you can lead your own workshop in traditional unconference style.

More details on our speakers and planned workshop leaders are coming, but for now we’ve lined up these amazing folks to inform and inspire you:

Workshop 1 Upstairs

Bennett King – Drawing Out Users: Using Sketch Techniques for User Research

Sketching provides a unique way to collect user research data. Research participants are less guarded when communicating using sketches or drawings than when they are communicating verbally. They often provide valuable insights into wants, needs and issues without even knowing it. In this interactive workshop we will examine simple (and rapid) sketching techniques that can be employed while conducting user research to improve your product.

Workshop 2 Main Room

Jason Alderman – Practical Sketchnoting!

Sketchnotes are just what they sound like: notes taken to capture live events in a fluid combination of words and pictures. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll get coaching to create your own sketchnotes, from advice on what and why to sketchnote, tips on tools and approach, and practice working your way from lettering up to drawing with layout in mind. By the end of the workshop, you’ll even have sketchnoted a talk within this talk (meta!).

Workshop 3 Back Room – (open for participant-led workshops)

11 – 11:45

Workshop 4 Upstairs

Amber Lundy – Humanizing the interface:  Bridging reality and interfaciallity to problem solve… aka sketching!

People communicate and network through language, emotion and the manipulation of their environment or objects.  Designers, like people giving a speech are the first users of that object, interface or statement.  Think about how many times you have said something and immediately reacted to it in a startling way.  You may wish you could have done a few iterations on that statement before belting it out right?  This is precisely the moment that we can capture and explore with sketching.  That stage of willing self criticism allows us to be playfully creative while testing, improving and inserting human emotion into the process.  Sketching easily allows community involvement so your sketches become an argument that allows you and your team to distill good design from the conversation.  Design that is thoughtful, human, and full of emotion.  The session will round out with some simple ways to insert user emotion into your ideation sketches, the only 3 tools you ever really need, and the habits that will make you a pro fast.

Workshop 5 Main Room

Sean & John – Sketchy At Best. Sketching to maximize efficiency in a lean environment

New product ideas are commonly born of instinct, hunches and past experience; an adventure into the unknown. Early requirements are therefore often imperfect lists of nice-to-haves, can-we-do-this, grand vision items that may not always be practical or feasible in a lean startup. In this talk we’ll introduce sketching as an early collaborative step in the process of facilitating buy-in and evolving ideas into a map for a minimum viable product.

Workshop 6 Back Room – (open for participant-led workshops)

2:30pm -3:15

Workshop 7 Upstairs

Christopher Konrad – 5 Secret Ingredients

Learn how to sketch one idea on a piece of paper.  Your sketch will make it obvious how your idea improves customer’s experiences if you include 5 secret ingredients.  Come learn and practice mixing those ingredients.

Workshop 8 Main Room

Phil McAndrew – Draw Like A Six Year Old

As kids, we’re totally fearless when drawing. We scribble and doodle without reservations or inhibitions. Sketching and doodling can (and should) be incredibly fun, and yet somewhere along the way most people seem to lose that fearlessness, replacing it with self-doubt and a reluctance to explore. Tap into the creative fearlessness of your six-year-old self and learn some new sketching tricks with this talk and drawing process demonstration from a professional illustrator and cartoonist.

Workshop 9 Back Room

Jeff Axup – (Doodling > Digital) Design

Many designers jump into using digital tools too early. Sketching is a fast, flexible and productive way to explore initial design concepts before you start being limited by digital constraints. A good way to get used to drawing UIs is to expand on the doodling that you did in the margins of your college notepad. The same principles apply to rapidly explaining design ideas to co-workers on whiteboards, notepads or the occasional napkin. Once you get comfortable with your UI doodles, learn to easily expand them into storyboards to demonstrate use cases which are a central component of design excellence.

Thanks to our initial sponsors who are already supporting SketchCamp:

Gigabyte Sponsors

 

 

 

 

Megabyte Sponsors

 

 

Kilobyte Sponsors

Sponsors

This list will be updated frequently as more sponsors join us.

Our goal is to keep the cost of Sketchcamp SD low and to do that we look for help from partners in the San Diego community. We have three tiers of sponsorship along with direct items that can be sponsored like badges, or lanyards. Contact us if you would like more information.

We know SketchCamp is going to be a special event, and because we want to keep it small, intimate and affordable, we’re limiting ticket sales to 60 people.

UPDATE: Sketchcamp has SOLD OUT!

But if you sign up for the wait list, we will contact you as spots open up.

You can get in touch with us several ways.
We’re on Twitter: @SketchCampSD

General questions?
info@sketchcampsd.com

Want to be a speaker?
speaker@sketchcampsd.com