In this episode, I talk with Ceren Yildirim, an agile coach and avid sketchnoter and visualizer living and working in Turkey.

Listen in as she shares how she integrates sketching and sketchnoting into her agile coaching practice — and how our pandemic lives have made for challenges — but also great opportunities for both our sketchnoting community and for the world.

Enjoy the episode!

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RUNNING ORDER

• Intro: Who is Ceren?
• Ceren’s origin story and path into sketchnoting
• Her work with sketching and visualization with agile teams
• The importance of transparency and incremental work
• What is Ceren excited about?
• Workshops and meetups that have gone online
• Culture changing to adapt to online teaching
• Making friends because of the pandemic
• The challenge of shifting from pencil to pen
• Tools
• Choosing analog or digital based on the job at hand
• The importance of defining your tools and constraints
• The spectrum of tools, from analog to digital
• Tips
• Outro

LINKS

• Ceren on Instagram
• Ceren on LinkedIn
• Ceren on Twitter
• Steve Silbert
• Marianne Rady
• Yuri Malishenko
• Eva-Lotta Lamm
• Rob Dimeo
• Rob Dimeo on Sketchnote Army SE01 / EP 02
• Mauro Toselli
• OBS Studio
• mmhmm
• ManyCam
• Ecamm Live
• Zoom
• Microsoft Teams

TOOLS

• Moleskine
• Sketchnote Ideabook
• Stabilo Pens
• Sakura Pigma Micron Pens
• Faber-Castell Fineliners
• Neuland Markers
• iPad Pro 12.9”
• Apple Pencil
• PaperLike
• Procreate
• Concepts
• Paper by WeTransfer

TIPS

1. Practice, practice, practice — a lot!
2. Create your own visual library
3. Remember you don’t have to be a great drawer to visualize ideas
4. Adapt your sketchnote patterns to ones you naturally align with

CREDITS

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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