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Thinking With Your Hands: Sketching For Software Development (Berlin) #2

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Saturday, May 21st, 10:00 to 18:00. Location, ☕️ and Lunch sponsored by

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Why should I learn sketching?

Sketching is not about being a good artist. It's about being a good thinker.

—Jason Santa Maria

The real goal of sketching is functional. It’s about generating ideas, solving problems, and communicating ideas more effectively with others.

—Jared Spool

Expressing solutions in words is difficult. For the other person to understand what you mean is even more difficult. That is why we take screenshots when the interface is broken, instead of describing the bug in words.

Sketching is like taking screenshots of your thoughts:

In consequence, sketching saves a lot of time and avoids frustration. You might know The Project Cartoon:

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Sketching can help a great deal to avoid situations like this. By clearing out misunderstandings before they are crafted into code, sketching can help to save money, time and stress.

What exactly will I learn in this workshop?

The goal of this workshop is mostly to ease the fear of pen and paper and install sketching as a new communication default in the brain. That includes:

...all on a very basic, beginner-friendly level.

I will show lots of real-life examples from the past years and explain how sketching has helped to communicate and ship.

What do I need to know, own or prepare to attend?

Nothing. You will be equipped with all necessary tools, materials and knowledge.

Who should attend?

Everybody who is working in Software can attend to improve communication in their teams:

* (Designers: depending on your level, this workshop might be more of a refresher of things you already know)

Next date: Saturday, May 21st, 10:00 to 18:00

please leave a comment here so I can notify you wenn tickets are availabe. if in doubt, a "+1" does it :)

if you do not have a github account, either create one at github.com/join or or tell me via fabian at superpursuitmo.de

Please let me know if would you be interested in childcare while attending the workshop!

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afknapping commented 8 years ago

Hey all :)

I updated the info: the workshop will be on Saturday, May 21st, at the EyeEm Studio!

EyeEm will not just provide us with space and coffee, they also throw in Lunch! ♥️ Thanks a lot to @cainvommars and Roland for making it happen.

I will put up the tickets over the coming days, price will be 49 Euro per Person this time. There will be 4 Diversity tickets available for Eur 0. You can apply by writing to fabian at superpursuitmo.de.

Have a great weekend, Fabian

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afknapping commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the delay – tickets will go live tomorrow 11 May 2016, 7:00am CEST at https://ti.to/filtercake-workshops/thinking-with-your-hands-berlin-16-05-21/

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