Presto Sketching

Chapter 13. Sharing Your Sketches with Others

AS FANTASTIC AS IT is to bring sketching into your product direction, management, and design work, the last thing you want is to be stuck doing lots of sketching while everyone else in the team has finished up and gone for cocktails to celebrate.

Let’s look at how we can be efficient in the way we sketch at work. This chapter is packed with tips for to do the following:

• Capturing your sketches professionally

• Storing and sharing your sketches

• Reusing and getting the most out of your sketches

There’s Magic in the Making, Not Just What’s Made

Sketching in product management and design, like a lot of things, is best done with others rather than just alone.

It’s well established that involving others in a solution is the best way to get their endorsement and approval. But I’m not talking about the well-worn phrases of the workplace, like “collaboration” and “stakeholder buy-in.” I’m talking about involving all types of people on whom your product is going to have an impact. Your customers. The sales staff. The call center staff.

And I’m not just talking meetings and pitching sessions. I’m talking about involving their hands as well as their ears, minds, and mouths. It’s one thing to show a room full of stakeholders your lovely storyboards, but it’s quite another to get them sketching storyboards, too.

So, when it comes to sharing your sketches, think ...