Visual Prototyping - (B-E-ba-m) - Q4

Participation Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites. However, participants in this course should be open and willing to perform basic sketching and drawing as well as creative thinking. 

Course Content

In this course I want to provide simple and important tools and skills that will help you visualizing and communicate your ideas and content in many different business settings.

The course is divided into two major parts:

1: Basic visual skills

In this part of the course we train all the important basic skills that are needed to visualize content, such as simple forms, basic shapes, containers and connectors, structures, icons, people, writing, color, etc. 

2: Business visual/structuring/analytic skills 

In this part of the course we investigate and learn visual skills for business, mainly for structuring, understanding, communicating and explaining, such as business structures, business tools and infographics, etc. 

Intended Learning Outcomes and Competencies

For the basic part of this course, students will master:

•           Independent development of visual components, such as: 

Icons, shapes, containers, connectors, arrows, people, writing, color, structure. 

For the business part of this course, students will master: 

•           Visual structure

•           Visual analytics

•           Visual processes for business

•           Visual models for business

•           Information Graphics

•           Visual communication and analysis of audiences

•           Visual storytelling

Instruction Type

Presence

Form of Examination

Literature

There is no required literature, however if you are looking for one or two general books on visual thinking, these two are great: 

UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen (Martin Haussmann)

Qvist-Sorensen, O., & Baastrup, L. (2019). Visual collaboration: A powerful toolkit for improving meetings, projects, and processes. John Wiley & Sons.