The concept behind the white boards was that they were a way of compressing information and ideas in a compact way. Mike would start drawing what i was hearing on the board as soft ware, like pages and fly outs and buttons and structure. And then as we had further discussions about what's good and what might not work, i would start annotating in these colours so you could sort of separate the drawing from the notes. The best part of my day was when a developer would say, no, you don't exactly have that right. So i would offer the marker, and they would come up and they would draw their idea or add their notes,. It became sort of a team's sport
Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher, and illustrator — but you’re more likely familiar with his work in sketchnoting. Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook, which popularized the practice, and the founder of the Sketchnote Army, a showcase of sketchnoters and their work. He’s been described as “one of the leaders of the visual thinking revolution.” In this conversation, we discuss how Mike’s approach to visual note-taking has influenced his work.
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