These are the slides that accompanied my short talk on sketching at Peter Boersma's UX Cocktail Hour Amsterdam on 5 March 2009, hosted by Info.nl.

1. On sketching
Kars Alfrink – UX Cocktail Hour AMS – 5 March ‘09

2. Hello,
my name is Kars
and I’m a sketcher.

3. …

4. what it is

6. - -
quick distinct gesture
- -
timely minimal detail
- -
inexpensive appropriate degree
of refinement
- disposable
- suggest & explore
- rather than confirm
plentiful
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- ambiguity
clear vocabulary

7. why it works

9. conversations
with materials

10. an example

11. project context

21. - go for volume
- sketch as you think
- don’t worry about esthetics
- create a ‘shared sketch-space’

22. Thanks!
More: leapfrog.nl/blog/?s=sketching