Yesterday I attended a session by Ia Brix a visual practitioner and facilitator from Denmark on designing and using visual templates. This session was moderated by Sunny BenBelkacem on behalf of the IFVP.

A couple of years ago, at the EuViz 2018 conference,  she ran a workshop on this topic, but at that time I was tied up delivering a session myself to ScrumAlliance via webinar. Ben Crothers did a good write of up of that HERE. His write up covers most of the same material it seems.

Below you can see my sketchnotes from the session. My main takeaways from the 90 minutes were:

1) Her planning compass of: Purpose, Participants, Place, Process & results

2) Creating simple intuitive flow with white space, clear headings and navigation arrows (backed up by small briefing documents)

3) Getting non facilitator’s to test out the template to sense check it

4) Thinking about apropriate sizes for the interaction required. From A0 to A5 and how they can be used affectively.

During the session she also shared her visual template document, that can be sourced at her website [click Denmark above] – The front page is my banner image here.

 

Visual template Sketchnotes

Sketchnote 1 – Design and flow of planning process

Visualtemplates Sketchnote1

Visual metaphors and structure

Visualtemplates Sketchnote2

Break out session sketchnote – Personal introduction

Visualtemplates Sketchnote3

Rough work on potential visual metaphors to use as a reflection on Covid19

Visualtemplates Sketchnote4