Sketchplanations
Big Ideas Little Pictures

Sketchplanations in a book! I think you'll love Big Ideas Little Pictures

Sketchplanations podcast photo of Rob Bell, Tom Pellereau and Jono Hey

Prefer to listen?
Try the podcast

Like Sketchplanations?
Support me on Patreon

Explaining the world one sketch at a time

Chindogu: unuseless inventions

Unuseless inventions. Invented by the Japanese. Worth a quick chindogu search.…
Read more…
The Anchoring bias

Anchoring

Hard to avoid and easy to manipulate.…
Read more…

How long to nap

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Perfect Nap and @jessmnhey.…
Read more…

Common distributions: normal, skewed, pareto

Normal (the weight of apples, measurement errors, IQ…), skewed (Number of children in a household, age at retirement…) and Pareto (80/20 rules, long-tails, size of meteorites).…
Read more…

Metaphors for ideas

Ideas are: Locations Objects Food There are others too. But these are big ones. Curious? Read Metaphors We Live By was a frame-changing easy read for me. PS Accidentally, mixed my metaphors in the final sketch. The Mind Is A Machine metaphor is so pervasive it’s hard to ‘sketch’ across thinking without it.…
Read more…

Understanding gifs, bitmaps and jpegs

Knowing a little of the fundamentals really helps you appreciate why people always create such giant PowerPoint files all the time by mistake (hint: the standard screen capture pastes as a bitmap) and why images go grainy on the Internet or load really slow.…
Read more…
Sketchplanations
Search·Categories·Archive
Buy Me A Coffee