Diagrams with Napkin

How to create clear diagrams with Napkin?

  • Napkin

1250 € per session, excl. VAT

In short

Aimed at marketing and communication professionals, and trainers, this workshop teaches you to use Napkin. You will learn to extract concepts from text, then generate and customize diagrams. By adjusting their elements, you will produce three clear diagrams, ready for export to your documents or presentations, enhancing the understanding of your ideas.

Why this training?

The problem
Fragmented uses and results that are hard to verify.
What it costs today
Manual rework and decisions based on incomplete information.
Why this skill
Diagrams faithful to business text, with checked relationships and exports.
What you gain
Diagrams faithful to business text, with checked relationships and exports.

Objectives of this training

  • Extract steps, relationships and comparisons from text.
  • Compare alternative representations.
  • Refine labels, colours and hierarchy.
  • Diagrams faithful to business text, with checked relationships and exports.

Who is it for and what are the prerequisites?

Roles and tasks concerned

  • Marketing and communications
  • Trainers and learning leads

Prior skills

  • AI Fundamentals and AI Prompting completed, or equivalent experience (a learning prerequisite, not a registration condition).
  • Have practised: Understand Napkin and get started, or have equivalent skills. Authorised Napkin account; verify visual features and PNG, SVG, PPT or PDF export for the plan. Export to an external presentation tool; no photo or movie generation is promised. Check structures and figures.
  • A paid subscription to an AI solution offering the features used, the organisation’s authorisation for third-party tools, and the actual accounts and access rights.

To prepare before the session

  • Authorised Napkin account; verify visual features and PNG, SVG, PPT or PDF export for the plan. Export to an external presentation tool; no photo or movie generation is promised. Check structures and figures.

What you will work on

  1. Clarify

    Extract steps, relationships and comparisons from text.

  2. Generate

    Compare alternative representations.

  3. Customise

    Refine labels, colours and hierarchy.

  4. Export

    Choose an available format for Word or PowerPoint.

What you take away

  • Three exported diagrams for documents or presentations.

Method and assessment

  • Demonstration of available features, guided exercises and an independent case.
  • Peer review of the deliverable and correction against original sources.

The participant presents the stated deliverable, justifies sources and permissions, identifies and corrects an error and explains limitations. Assessment rubric: accuracy, traceability, access control and handover to a colleague.

Frequently asked questions

What concrete outcome is assessed?

Diagrams faithful to business text, with checked relationships and exports.

What access is needed before the session?

Authorised Napkin account; verify visual features and PNG, SVG, PPT or PDF export for the plan. Export to an external presentation tool; no photo or movie generation is promised. Check structures and figures.

Which step should come before this course?

Have practised: Understand Napkin and get started, or have equivalent skills.

How are data protected and results validated?

Use fictional, anonymised or explicitly authorised data. Your organisation’s designated person checks sources, rights and results before use; subscriptions and external access are not assumed to be included.

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