Interactive conceptual sketching

 The whiteport interactive sketching method takes a very practical approach to capturing your visions and ideas in sketches. We start with our effective techniques for organizing your thoughts before putting them on paper. When we start sketching we quickly take you through the foundations of drawing straight lines and building basic shapes. Then, we add artful touches to give your sketches personality and focus attention on the most imortant part of what you want to convey. Finally, you will learn how to break business processes into steps and make full blown paper prototypes compatible with any digital wireframeing tool. All effectively by hand!

Furthermore, there is an array of possibilites available when drawing by hand that no digital tool can offer, and you will in this course get the inside scope and learn all the tricks in the book. We will teach you how to design sites and systems faster than people can talk using very rough sketches and miniatures. We will give you the ability to focus on crucial parts of what you are working with, the proactive use of scale, and level of detail. No sketching course is compleated until you master the power of story boarding to visualize animations, complex interactions and variables of outcomes based on the users’ actions. All of these techniques are great both for your own work with innovative solutions and for turning long and boring meetings into stunning workshops and highly effectvie sessions with your teams and clients.

Everyone has a whiteboard story. You know, the situation where you disagreed with someone and suddenly you both stepped in front of the whiteboard. Then, instantaneously after starting to sketch, you find yourself in an interesting dialog with active listening and agreement follows as a matter of cause. No matter if you are redecorating your kitchen, planning a wedding, building a mobile app or sending people to the moon. The super power of sketching together is widely usable and available for you. If you are happy with your current workflow using a digital wireframing tool or use a design apllicaiton creating highly detailed sketches by hand might not be something for you. However, it is proven that making rough sketches to communicate with others and organize your mind before going to the computer will significantly speed up your workflow and render a better result.

Skething is here to stay. No matter what technologies we might invent in the future, innovators with sketching skills will inherit the planet! The task of saving the world starts right here, on a piece of paper!

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 The course requires no prior sketching skills to attend. You will impress yourself when you see yourself sketching in minutes during the first session. Between the sessions you will get tasks to do by yourself to get feedback and develop your skills rapidly. You will also get our popular sketching kit sent to you in good time before the course. This kit contains all you need for succeeding with your sketching.

The last couple of years, we in Whiteport have adapted our techniques for drawing on tablet devices supporting digital pens. As we realized, tablet sketching manages to keep the creative essence of traditional sketching with the capabilities of modern design software. The ability to sketch freely, instantly manupulate and then instantly share and collaborate with others have really opened new possibilities in digital design. If you have access to a tablet supporting a digital pen we strongly reccomend bringing it to the course and we will show you have to use it effectively with popular and free software.

The course is conducted in charming facilities with modern technolgy in central Stockholm. There is a limited number of places for attending the event on site. For remote viewers we have staff helpful in technical questions and replying any question you might have while sketching! Connecting remote will give you the whole live experience in a realistic way. The whole session is also recorded and you may always refer to the recordings in the future.