Brian Melvin has filled his room in the last #ATD2015 session (W315)And once again, I cheated. Backdoor. Feel bad for the queue. But I’m here, so let’s go!
According to Melven, we have a choice for presenting information to our people: Words or images. Images work better. But we aren’t all graphic designers, so what do we do?
Follow this process:
- Get your story and characters straight.
- Decide what kind of style you want. Today, we are looking at comic styles.
- Find someone who can draw something. Melven suggested not going to a design agency, but just getting online and finding freelance people or student that can help. It’s really not that expensive to get a character like the one below gin 15 or so poses you can use in your materials) for about $200
- Script out your story and get that script sign-off BEFOREHAND you go to the drawing board
- Put a storyboard structure in PPT.. keep it simple, just a few boxes
- Add some text!
Other (book) references that may help you on your visual journey:
- Make a story by using Katie Stroud’s ideas
- Dan Roam’s “Back of a Napkin”
- Brandy Ageneck’s “The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide”
- Mike Rohde’s “The Sketchnote Handbook“
- Tony Buzan’s “The Mindmap Book“
- Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics“
- Visit www.brokencoworker.com to see comic-style instructional design using in-company pictures
- Randy Krum’s “Cool Infographics” and the associated website http://www.coolinfographics.com
- My notes on Mike Parkinson’s ATD2015 session on creating infographics step-by-step
- Get a whole load of images for free from Creative Commons
- Try out a tool like VideoScribe to make RSA style animations
- Check out SkillCatch by E-Doceo to make video/text tutorials
- Read my blog-post on Prezi tips to avoid doing a bad job with an awesome tool
- Make a 3-step photo-based “video story” with the Nutshell app
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