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Mike Rohde on Sketchnote Thinking

The Informed Life

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What's the Idea Behind the White Boards?

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

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