Today we embark on our journey! We’ll get a glimpse of a design thinker’s toolkit, preview what we’ll cover in the next 10 sessions, and warm up our sketching muscles.

_{Session 1 of 10 . 12 min}

While a simple line sounds easy enough, it’s deceptively difficult to sketch straight and confident lines that are in place and on target. So, we’ll dedicate this entire session to lines.

_{Session 2 of 10 . 14 min}

Round about now is a good time to start working on circles.  Sketching circles with confidence takes practice. So, we begin today.  And for good measure, we’ll practice our lines again too.

_{Session 3 of 10 . 13 min}

A key part of sketching like a design thinker is writing like one too. Today, we’ll start to develop our own DT-style “personal font” that is visually clear, confident, and communicative.

_{Session 4 of 10 . 14 min}

Letter by letter, we’ll keep working on writing like design thinkers. Today, we’ll focus on form, consistency, and adding a little flare.  And, like a good fitness program, we’ll do the reps.

_{Session 5 of 10 . 14 min}

We kick off week 2 with easy-to-learn & quick-to-draw sketching shortcuts that I call visual symbols.  These will enable you to start sprinkling little visualizations throughout your work right away.

_{Session 6 of 10 . 13 min}

Yesterday we learned visual symbols to help quickly sketch people (and emotions & actions). Today we learn a second set of symbols to help visually represent everyday things and ways of working.

_{Session 7 of 10 . 13 min}

Today we learn how to grab and direct the visual attention of others using frames.  But, drawing frames on post-it notes can be precarious. We’ll need to use new tricks when sketching on the edge.

_{Session 8 of 10 . 14 min}

Today we learn how to sketch arrows design-thinking-style. We work on different styles of simple yet visually effective arrow heads, and practice straight arrows as well as arrows based on arcs.

_{Session 9 of 10 . 15 min}

Congratulations on making it to day 10! Today we review everything we’ve learned (in a visual way) and celebrate with a mini sketching challenge to stretch our rapid visualization muscles!

_{Session 10 of 10 . 18 min}

Well, this pack now goes up to eleven! It turns out that not everything fit into 10 sessions. So I’ve wrapped up a few extras (all about working more like a design thinker) as a gift. Enjoy!

_{Session 11 of 10 . 11 min}