Eva is a freelance UX Designer. She previously headed the business design team at Skype, worked as interaction designer for Yahoo! in London and as lead designer for Kahn + Associates in Paris. Besides her daytime mission of making the web a more understandable, usable and delightful place, she regularly takes sketch notes at all sorts of talks and conferences and recently turned these into a little book. Eva teaches sketching and runs “UX Sketch Club”, a monthly(-ish) meet up for people who are interested in experimenting with sketching and sharing their work. We’re working out a way making her sketch notes to become a more active and engaging part of TYPO London!

Eva-Lotta Lamm

UX Designer, Illustrator, Visual Thinker (Berlin)

Eva-Lotta Lamm is a User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris and London for a few years before packing up her backpack and go travelling the world for 14 months. She has over 12 years of experience working on digital products as an in-house designer for Google, Skype, and Yahoo! as well as freelancing and consulting for various agencies and her own clients. After being a (semi-)nomad for 2 years, she is now based in Berlin. Besides her UX work, she has been taking sketchnotes at hundreds of talks and conferences and has self-published her notes in several books (www.sketchnotesbook.com). During her world trip, she documented her experience as daily sketchnotes in her travel diary (www.secretsfromtheroad.com). Eva-Lotta also is a sought after expert and teacher in the area of sketching, sketchnoting and visual thinking. She is regularly speaking at international design conferences and has been teaching sketching workshops at conferences and for companies for over 5 years. She is currently writing a book on sketching interfaces, based on one of her workshop formats. Eva-Lotta is the illustrator of Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and The User’s Journey by Donna Lichaw, both published by Rosenfeld Media. In her personal sketching practice, she is exploring the area of Visual Improvisation, where she is looking at the parallels between sketching and improvisation and experiments with how the principles from her regular theatre improvisation practice can be used to inspire visual work. Photo: Marc Thiele  

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Which work are you particularly proud of? Which work best represents your style or approach?
Besides working as a User Experience Designer as my ‘main’ job, I regularly visit design talks and conferences where I take ‘sketchnotes’, which is more visual form of note taking that combines written notes with sketches and drawings. I’ve been sharing these notes for several years online on Flickr and in January, I self-published a book on lulu.com that collects all notes from the last two years as I wanted to take the notes back to their original format, ink on paper. I got invited to sketchnote this year’s Typo Berlin earlier this year and I am really happy and honoured to be re-invited to Typo London to capture the talks of a stellar line-up of speakers.

As TYPO is all about design: are there any examples for very good and not so good design you recently ran across?
An example of bad design showed up on my mac after upgrading to Lion: The horribly tacky faux-leather cheap-stiching wanna-be-executive style of the calendar app. Such a step backwards. But luckily, there is a way back to a cleaner look: http://www.simpleandusable.com/news/how-to-remove-the-faux-leather-in-ical-for-os-x-lion.html

Required reading: What are currently your favorite interesting/beautiful publications/books/interesting links?
The Little People Project: Slightly different and slightly smaller streetart
Nea Machina, a book by Thomas and Martin Poschauko about their creative process that they presented at TYPO Berlin this year.
Dear Photograph. A picture from the past in the present
Letters of Note is probably the only feed in my RSS reader that I read almost every day.

The theme for this year’s TYPO London is places. What are your favorite places in London? Where do like to hang out? Any places you would be willing to share?
I like walking along the Regent’s Canal (I just live 5 mins walk from it). It get’s quite busy with joggers and cyclists on sunny weekends, but it is a lovely change from the normal city vibe, especially when you get beyond Camden to Regent’s Park. I also like going to events in the Southbank Center. They have fantastic dance and performance events, often coupled with mini workshops where the artists share their approach and technique. To chill out, I like going for a walk in Hampstead Heath. It’s a lovely big park with hills and ponds. And it’s actually a great spot for watching the fireworks on New Year’s Eve: from Parliament Hill – you have a fantastic view over the whole city.