Communicating visually (Sydney)

This is for everybody – especially for those who say “I can’t draw!”. Come and join like-minded people in building confidence in communicating visually.
This will be a practical pen-in-hand session to really help you be a visual communicator.

Too often in our work lives, we find ourselves typing out reports, slide decks, and proposals because we’re simply used to using words to communicate what we’re thinking.

A sketch can take a few seconds and can be just as, if not more engaging, and easier for our brains to digest. Working with hundreds of businesses and industries throughout the last 10 years, we at Meld Studios get a special feeling every time a client has told us how much they value our visuals for making complex business processes, concepts and ideas, so much more tangible and simple.

In this workshop, you’ll develop the visual skills that help to:

• Express your thinking
• Bring life to your ideas, concepts, strategies, processes – so you get more buy-in
• Use visuals and sketching to uncover relationships, problems, and opportunities
• Genuinely capture your stakeholders’ attention and improve their understanding
• Represent complex ideas in a quick, tangible, and cost-effective way.

In order to do this, the session will cover:

• Building your own library of visuals to draw upon
• Learning some techniques to visually express flows, processes, journeys, and relationships
• Illustrating visual stories by combining your library with knowledge of flows and relationships, guided in a step-by-step manner
• Practising how to talk through and showcase your visual story
• Illustrating an aspect of your work you see the value in visualising (e.g., data, systems, flows, processes, concepts, etc).

What to bring

Think about some of the scenarios you think visual skills might help you in your job or personal life.

A fun, open-minded attitude! Important is the ability to laugh at yourself, encourage others, and learn something new.

Come along for what should be an exciting, hands-on session.

Why learn from us?

Our expertise is recognised and sought after.

Our work wins prestigious awards. Meld Studios, in collaboration with Queensland Government’s One Stop Strategy and Implementation Office, won the 2018 won the Good Design Award® of the Year for the Growing Human-Centred Design Across Queensland Government project. The 60th Good Design Awards attracted record entries of 536 innovative designs with 269 projects receiving the coveted Good Design Award®. Of these, there were 30 Best in Class Award Winners from which the Good Design Award® of the Year was chosen. Over the past year our people have been invited to speak or deliver workshops across Australia, as well as in Prague, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Bogotá, Bangalore and across the US.

We work with many of Australia’s private and public organisations using Service Design to help them tackle their biggest challenges.

We continually evolve our approach and we love to share what we’ve learned along the way. We use real life examples and encourage others to share their experiences and questions.

About Meld Studios and the workshop team

Meld Studios is an award winning design studio with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. We seek to improve the everyday lives of people as they interact with the world around them.

We work with organisations such as Westpac, Queensland Government, Qantas, The State Library of Victoria, the Australian Taxation Office and the Digital Transformation Agency to do just that.

If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact events@meldstudios.com.au.

FAQS

Do you tailor and run your courses for organisations?
We can and have done for a number of organisations. Please email us at events@meldstudios.com.au for details.

What if I need to cancel?
Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event. You can also transfer your registration to a colleague.

What are the times for the days?
The workshops start promptly at 9am each day and run through until approximately 4:30/5pm.