Content and illustrations by @carlogilmar. ⭐️
| Agenda |
|---|
| Trainer Experience |
| About this training |
| How to follow this workshop? |
| 1. Introduction to Visual Thinking |
| 2. Part I: Build your iconography 🎨 |
| 3. Part II: Develop your active listening 👂 |
| 4. Part III: The graphic recording ✍️ |
| 5. Why develop your Visual Thinking? |
| Extended Version and more resources |
| Closing Notes |
Hi! I'm Carlo Gilmar, the creator of this content to learn Visual Thinking. 😁
More about me here!
About me:
- I'm software engineer at Erlang Solutions.
- I'm interested in learning and promoting BEAM technologies such as Erlang and Elixir.
- I love VIM and Git.
- I'm the creator and founder of Visual Partner-Ship, a creative studio to mix software development and visual thinking.
My experience:
- I was part of the IFVP International Forum of Visual Practitioner in 2020/2021 were I organized workshops to build the mentorship program for visual practitioners.
- I organized the IFVP "Encuentro Regional LATAM 2021" for the visual practitioners in LATAM.
- I'm a Visual Thinking trainer at Visual Partner-Ship (I deliver workshops including one for GitHub Octogatos).
- I have given talks and conferences about why it's important to learn Visual Thinking in software development.
- I have attended conferences and drawn graphic recordings in real time: Code BEAM America, Elixir Conf, GitHub Universe, GitHub Satellite, & EMPEX Conf, in places as Mexico City, Berlin, Salt Lake City, Mountain View and San Francisco.
- I created the Elixir Timeline to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this language, it was presented during the Elixir Conf London in 2022.
- I illustrated the "Historia de los lenguajes de programación" written by Manuel Rubio.
- I designed the logos for the Octogatos Conf 2022, ESL Americas Jaguars office and the Dev Rel Con LATAM.
- I designed the Code BEAM t-shirts for America and Stockholm editions in 2022.
- My work as graphic recorder for tech conferences is supported by the GitHub Sponsors program.
Visual Partner-Ship, Tulio and me. 😁
You can follow this activities and exercises by yourself, or you're welcome to do it with your friends or teammates to share results. You can even use this workshop meterials in your company or school. My mission is promote this kind of content and contribute to the community. If you need guidance or a trainer to complement this experience, feel free to reach me out: [email protected]
You can't reproduce totally or partially this content without an explicit permission by the creator. This content is under GPL-3.0 license.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in learn Visual Thinking, no previous experience is required to do any of the activities. This is a basic level training.
Please read and understand topic 1) Introduction to Visual Thinking as the introduction for the whole training. The next topics (Part I, Part II and Part III) are the practical part of the training, you'll find exercises to follow and some explanations. You'll need to take your time to do all the activities (around 120 min). It's important to mention that for a more complete understanding of the topic you'll need to complete all the activities in order.
To summarize all the activites we have the topic 5) Why to develop your Visual Thinking?. If you want to continue learning more, you'll find more activities to complement your understanding in topic Extended Version and more resources. Finally, we're going to close with the last bullet point Closing Notes.
You'll find the activities completed in every topic as a reference to compare or support yours.
You're not authorized to use this content to create paid workshops. This content was created for community usage.
Requirements:
- Paper sheets (9) (any kind of paper works).
- Pens, pencils or markers.
- You can use a digital tablet and any drawing app (iPad and Procreate are suggested).
Happy drawing! 🚀
You can start the workshop in the following link:
Content by @carlogilmar. January 2023.