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Sketching tips for UX designers who think they can’t sketch

Alex Krzyminski
UX Collective
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5 min readJan 27, 2020
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“I can’t sketch.”

That’s what a lot of UX Designers start out saying to their instructors. If you are facilitating a Design Sprint, you could be hearing that from a Marketing Director or someone in the Finance department. Most people would at least get a little lump in the throat if someone told them that they were going to be spending the next five minutes sketching.

On the other hand, you have people who love to sketch. Whether they come from an artistic or creative background or not, some people are just natural doodlers. But this category contains its own challenges.

For people who like to sketch, the problem tends to be they use too much detail. Their heart palpitates at the thought of “only” having five minutes to complete their sketches. They might only get a few screens deep into their 6–8–5’s (aka, “Crazy Eights”).

Photo by Danae Paparis on Unsplash

Sketching for UX is Meant to be Rough

The reason, first and foremost, for sketching in UX design is to get ideas down quickly that communicate rough structure and placement. They are not a finished product by any stretch of the…

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Written by Alex Krzyminski

I’m an UX Researcher, Designer, & Technical Writer in the Chicagoland area. I love podcasts, bicycles, & learning weird & useful facts that I can share.

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Thank you! I thought I was getting numb to landing pages for no reason - but now connect the dots on the trend of everything cartoon and 3D.
I very much agree about the CTA abuse. Some websites need therapy on that issue - they end up looking like…

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The one thing about a landing page is that it constantly needs the owner’s attention.

If others are using a certain pattern (a trend you mentioned earlier) and it works, why not stick to that? I'm not saying just blindly copy it but use it as a reference and add your personal touch to it.

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