Back to Paper: Mind Maps and Sketch Notes

Before breaking out the wireframe sketches and paper prototypes, some back-to-paper web types get the juices flowing with mind maps and sketch notes. Then they blog about it.

Sketch notes by Mike Rohde
“UI porn”: notes by Mike Rohde

Mike Rohde is kind of the king of these. 37Signals recently posted his sketch notes from the Seed 3 conference and they’re a pleasure to read. He’s done the same for SXSW, VizThink workshops and other web watering holes. Collect them all.

Paul Downey's notes from the Future of Web Design 2008
“Print is the new web”: Paul Downey on the Future of Web Design

Paul Downey was inspired by Rohde to sketch-note FOWD London 2008, above. View the full size on Flickr and the sketch notes are even better with notes.

Austin Kleon maps Tufte
“Clutter is a result of design”: Austin Kleon maps Tufte

Austin Kleon creates mind maps of the books he reads when he’s not blacking out words in newspapers (for a book). Above, his takeaway from Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence.

Lars Plougmann's notes on del.icio.us
“Not all metadata is tags”: notes on del.icio.us

As someone who keeps a filing cabinet full of old notebooks and sketchbooks organized by year and topic (if only I could tag them), I never tire of these web-head hand styles or their graffiti counterpart. But sometimes you need some mind-mapping software to get the job done. Lars Plougmann’s digitally rendered mind map above of Joshua Schachter’s 2006 Future of Web Apps talk contains a lot of relevant information. Check it out full size.

And if you don’t think any of this paper stuff is useful, consider Bill Westerman’s paper-based time management software. Or Adaptive Path’s sketchboard technique.

4 Comments

  1. November 2, 2008 at 9:50 pm #

    I’ve just been digging out some of the best mind mappers on the web and posting about them. What you have in this post is great stuff.

    See what you think of these:
    http://www.topicscape.com/blog/2008/09/22/the-great-hand-drawn-mind-mappers-face-off/
    and
    http://www.topicscape.com/blog/2008/10/28/hand-drawn-mappers-face-off-results-new-faces/

    I still haven’t decided which is my absolute favorite. Now you’ve given me more to worry about….

    Roy

  2. May 27, 2009 at 9:03 pm #

    You guy’s heard it’s some accident happened in Mike Tyson family pure guy, his so great and popular , even he do a lot of crazy things he didn’t deserve it . I’m a big fan of his – we should pray for him.

  3. June 26, 2010 at 12:22 pm #

    Hello! you look: Armani and Emaar Properties signed an agreement in 2004 for Emaar Hotels to build and operate at least seven luxury hotels and three vacation resorts under the Armani name. Armani would be responsible for overseeing all aspects the interior design and style of the hotels. One of these hotels is located in Dubai.] , Suzuki Vae Victis , Shirts Miss Sixty Christian Audigier or Pepe Jeans London Women’s T-shirts Fashio Marine D&G Junior , Home Textil Mio Mio Napapijri and Accessories La Martina 2 Pieces Aeronautica Militare , Camel Active Ermenegildo Zegna Tommy Hilfiger Miss Sixty . to meeting forgive…!!!

  4. Swesoppenna
    August 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm #

    пердуперденция k2

One Trackback

  1. By meneame.net on July 18, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    Mapas mentales y notas en papel…

    Deeplinking nos vuelve a mostrar varios ejemplos sobre el procedimiento de boceto en papel esta vez sobre mapas mentales desarrollados para sitios connotados en lo que web 2.0 respecta….

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared.