Sketchy Ideas #14 - Sketchnotes: The importance psychological safety & more calligraphy
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Content: Psychological safety and performance
Another sketchnote from Tanmay Vora about psychological safety. I'll bet I'm not the only person who thinks of the "flow" chart for satisfaction in a task.
Clearly there's overlap (a too stretching task isn't "safe") but it's an important aspect to consider, do people feel comfortable in their work situation? Can they take risks or will they be punished? Even if the task isn't too difficult, they may lower their standards under stress.
I know I play it safe during those times.
Style: Carolyn Sewell's Caligraphy Sketchnotes
SKETCHNOTES - Carolyn Sewell
Personal sketchnotes from the Creative Mornings Raleigh, NC chapter. Speakers include Kendra Leonard, Saleem Reshamwala, Jenny Nicholson
Another week with Carolyn Sewell's style. These are a little more visual than the version I shared last week.
I decided to take some inspiration and create a sketchnote summarising my takeaways from the Ship30 cohort I finish today.
Stealing a calligraphy style
There are two aspects of note in Carolyn's style.
The lettering (with brush pen influence)
the outlines or objects behind the text.
For the text, I mostly stuck to the studio pen in Procreate which is very responsive to tilt and pressure (which can cause some issues!). I've had some practice with this pen before and played with some similar calligraphy styles but Carolyn is clearly better and makes use of a wider range of styles. Something I'll consider next time.
I decided to create my background objects first and then add the text on top, that was tricky as it made some text larger or smaller than I would have liked. In the end, I needed to use a fixed line pen for some small details.
This style can be very effective for saving a series of quotes connected to a person and I found myself gravitating towards those elements. The icons behind the text help reinforce their message but they have limits in the information you can express.
My takeaway is to use this approach for quotes and perhaps headers but to keep icons and graphics to represent some process, action and details.
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