Chris Spalton - SE06 / EP01

In this first episode of season 6, Mike talks with UX designer and sketchnoter Chris Spalton from England about his entry into sketchnoting and how he’s using sketchnotes, comics, and other visualizations in his work in user experience. We also talk about Chris’ labor of love graphic novel, The Eelman Chronicles.

RUNNING ORDER

• Intro - Chris's sketchnote origin story
• Chris’s path to UX design
• storytelling, Comic books and Story boards in business
• The story of Eelman
• Tools
• 3 Tips
• Outro

3 TIPS

• Share as early as possible!
• Know that you are creative (it just might be different than you think)
• Use a grey marker to add drop shadows

Tools

• Steadlter Fineliners - https://www.staedtler.com/intl/en/products/Products-for-colouring/fineliners/
• Promarkers - http://www.winsornewton.com/row/shop/graphic-markers/promarker
• Faber-Castell Brush Pens - https://www.faber-castell.com/products/art-and-graphic/pitt-artist-pens
• Sharpies - https://www.sharpie.com/
• Post it notes - https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/
• iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-pro
• Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-pencil/
• Paper by WeTransfer (formerly FiftyThree) - https://paper.bywetransfer.com/
• Procreate - http://procreate.art/
• Caran d’ache Non-Photo P{encil - https://www.jetpens.com/Caran-d-Ache-Sketcher-Non-Photo-Blue-Pencil-Pack-of-2/pd/15882

LINKS

• Chris Spalton on Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisspalton
• The Eelman Chronicles - https://gumroad.com/cspalton
• Redgate Software - https://www.red-gate.com
• User Experience - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design
• Sunni Brown - http://sunnibrown.com
• Dan Roam - https://www.danroam.com
• Foolproof Design - https://www.foolproof.co.uk
• Chris' Medium article on comic strips and storyboards for UX concepting - https://uxplanet.org/using-comic-strips-and-storyboards-to-test-your-ux-concepts-cccad7ac7f71
• The Fens - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens

CREDITS

• Producer: Jon Schiedermayer
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson

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