| Video Timeline (Total Time 00:55:48) |
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0:00:00 |
Introduction |
Cliff introduces Dave Gray - founder of XPlane - helping people turn complicated stories into pictures, learning the fundamentals |
| 00:03:24 |
Dave Gray
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Introduces himself with a few slides - XPlane - often called "The Visual Thinking Company" |
| 00:04:50 |
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Mapping company information, for complex companies |
| 00:06:30 |
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Boxes and Lines - getting out of that habit |
| 00:07:30 |
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Find where the most meaningful useful knowledge lies, using stickie notes spread out the information, making your napkin sketch |
| 00:08:50 |
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Napkin sketch turned into a colorful graphic image that tells a story |
| 00:13:00 |
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Starting to use the basic tools, pencil and paper vs. electronic sketching tools |
| 00:14:20 |
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How companies are most often not aligned, actual procedure vs. historical procedural documentation, how XPlane works with companies to become better aligned |
| 00:17:00 |
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the ABCs and 123s of making basic visuals, drawing is no harder than learning to read or write |
| 00:20:25 |
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Analogy of using clip art for your presentations would be like copying and pasting words from another presentation into yours |
| 00:21:20 |
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Using SketchBook Pro - or pen and paper - and tablet PCs to work on your visual alphabet |
| 00:25:20 |
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Start with a decimal point, line and arc etc...of the visual alphabet |
| 00:27:15 |
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Flows vs. Forms in the visual alphabet, 12 shapes will lead you to be able to draw anything |
| 00:29:50 |
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Brainstorming, outlining ideas, rough draft, final document - use similar process for drawing images |
| 00:32:00 |
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Using path or sequence from start to finish of a presentation, different ways of organizing and grouping information |
| 00:35:40 |
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Adding structure - what are the relationships and connections between your information? |
| 00:37:00 |
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Drawing a car using simple shapes, practice will help improve your skills |
| 00:44:00 |
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Abstract thinking vs.visual thinking, everything falls into value, grouping and structure, discussing visual frameworks |
| 00:46:35 |
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Head, heart and hands = Logical, emotional, practical - the different ways of working through information and telling a story |
| 00:50:30 |
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The need to appeal to the audience |
| 00:51:50 |
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Questions from workshop attendees |
| 00:54:30 |
Wrap Up |
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| 00:55:48 |
End |
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