can better support the thinking
process and communication of
these thoughts to others. Thus, I
think awareness and competency in
sketchnoting for HCI researchers
could be beneficial. I enjoy sharing
my sketchnotes and process on my
Twitter account @maccymacx.
Nicolai Marquardt: I started
sketching during my M.Sc. and
Ph.D. studies and quickly found that
sketched ideas and concepts could
effectively support my research and
design process in HCI. Later, while
studying for my Ph.D. in Calgary, I
joined as a co-author to create the
Sketching User Experiences Workbook
(together with Saul Greenberg,
Sheelagh Carpendale, and Bill
Buxton), which summarizes many
of the possible methods of using
sketching techniques in HCI. During
that time, I also began reading about
using sketches for visual notetaking
and came across Mike Rohde’s blog
and books (see sidebar). I began
creating visual notes of talks and
meetings I attended, and many other
events I joined. An example from
last year is my visual summary of
Brad Myers’s inspiring Lifetime
Achievement Award talk at CHI 2017
(Figure 2). The sketched notes help
me stay active and engaged during
talks and make it easier for me to
synthesize what is most important
and how aspects of the presented
work relate to research I’m working
on. Many of my sketchnotes are
shared on my Twitter account
nicmarquardt.
SKETCHNOTE
TIPS AND TRICKS
To help anyone who is interested in
taking up sketchnoting and perhaps
broaden their horizons about
drawn imagery in general, we have
put together advice on avoiding
Figure 1. Sketchnote summarizing the closing keynote by Geraldine Fitzpatrick at ACM ISS 2017.
Anyone can
sketchnote—
you don’t have to
be an artist or
illustrator, or even
be able to draw.
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