Sketching User Experiences: The Hands-on Course

When designing novel user interfaces, paper-pencil sketches can support the design thinking process and are valuable for communicating design ideas to others. This hands-on course will demonstrate how to integrate sketching into researchers ’ and interaction designers’ everyday practice – with a particular focus on the design of novel user experiences. Participants will learn essential sketching strategies, apply these in practice during many hands-on exercises, and learn the various ways of using sketches as a tool during all stages of the HCI research and design process. Our emphasis is on quick, easy to learn, and easy to apply methods for generating and refining ideas. Course Structure Creating hand drawn paper-pencil sketches [1] can be a valuable tool for finding the right design; before later refining the work and getting the design right [2]. This hands-on course will demonstrate how to integrate sketching into researchers ’ and interaction designers’ everyday practice. The course will run over two 80-minute sessions. We will guide participants through selected sketching techniques and strategies. These techniques are partially based on the Sketching User Experiences Workbook [3], but also include other techniques and examples not covered in the book. Live sketching demonstrations and step-by-step instructions will illustrate a basic toolset for getting started sketching Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s)