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• The design philosophy of the AK-47
• Values, motivation and business
• Excerpt, OSS SabotageManual
• Complicated vs. complex
• Empathy mapping
• The future is podular
• The connected company
• The role of visual thinking and communication in change management
• What is Gamestorming?
• Information shadows and spimes
• The nib cursor
• Anatomy of a smart thing
• Metaphor
• Ubicomp Sketchbook
• Nancy Duarte on her new book, Resonate
• Sneak peek at my upcoming workshop at UI15
• How to draw a robot. Or, what I do when nobody is watching.
• XPLANE joins Dachis Group
• Knowledge Games talk from the Interaction 10 conference
• The design philosophy of the AK-47
• Values, motivation and business
• Excerpt, OSS SabotageManual
• Complicated vs. complex
• Empathy mapping
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- Creating an Empathy Map in Google Docs
A very nice post by David Bland over at scrumology shows you, step by step, how to make an Empathy Map in Google docs. What a great idea. Check out the post or Brand’s Google doc example.
What could go wrong?
A while back I was working with a friend’s startup, building a web app that helps small businesses connect with their customers without having to pay for dedicated customer service teams. Still in the proof-of-concept stage, the developers had been wondering whether to introduce a handful of premium services to their product for a some time, [...]
Job or Joy
Object of Play: This game helps you discover what you and your colleagues like best and least about your jobs. When doing something you love, it is easy to get lost in the activity for its own sake, which stimulates creativity and commitment to the task at hand. This can be applied to your work [...] - The latest posts at
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- Knowledge Games talk from the Interaction 10 conference
Dave Gray-Knowledge Games: A Grammar for Creativity and Innovation from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
Empathy mapping
Geneva workshop, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane. Just posted over on the Knowledge Games blog about Empathy mapping. Enjoy!
Toward a theory of information relativity
Visual thinking, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane. People often ask me how to visualize information. They ask things like “How can I visualize my industry ecosystem?” or “How can I visualize how my product works.” My first instinct is to try and back them up a bit. This is because they are already defining their project [...]
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Dave Gray is the Founder and Chairman of XPLANE, the visual thinking company. Founded in 1993, XPLANE has grown to be the world’s leading consulting and design firm focused on information-driven communications. Dave’s time is spent researching and writing on visual business, as well as speaking, coaching and delivering workshops to corporate clients.
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