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• The design philosophy of the AK-47
• Values, motivation and business
• Excerpt, OSS SabotageManual
• Complicated vs. complex
• Empathy mapping
• Mr. Fixit and the power of packaging
• Designing a narrative with index cards
• Bitching about work means you like it the way it is
• Toward a theory of information relativity
• Yuri Engelhardt's notebook
• Reader interaction with Marks and Meaning
• Visual note-taking workshop
• Guiding principles for VizThink
• Marks and Meaning, v. 0.5
• The Demon-Haunted World
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• Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping
• The unbook movement
• 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
• Mr. Fixit and the power of packaging
• Designing a narrative with index cards
• Bitching about work means you like it the way it is
• Toward a theory of information relativity
• Yuri Engelhardt's notebook
• Reader interaction with Marks and Meaning
• Visual note-taking workshop
• Guiding principles for VizThink
• Marks and Meaning, v. 0.5
• The Demon-Haunted World
• Unbook download
• Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping
• The unbook movement
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- Gamestorming meetup groups
If you are interested in starting a local meetup group where you can meet others who are interested in gamestorming and practice your meeting mojo, please leave a comment here and let’s get that conversation going!
SXSW panel proposal for Gamestorming
We have proposed a panel at the SXSW Interactive conference on Gamestorming. Here’s the description: Work is getting flatter. There’s no central server dishing out orders. It’s a peer-to-peer, co-evolving world. The team that flocks together, rocks together. The future of work is not about dull routine, it’s about being more human. It’s about curiosity, [...]
Party Invitations
This game is credited to Cyd Harrell and has been used by Bolt Peters in several client brainstorming meetings. Objective of play: Improve the onboarding process of a product or service. Number of players: 5-30 Duration of play: 30-60 minutes How to play: Everyone is handed a piece of paper and a marker. Participants are [...] - 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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“Today our guest is David Gray Visual Thinker and founder of Xplane.com. David founded Xplane to help people communicate clearly in an increasingly complex world. David and I talk about his company Xplane, his blogs, books and conferences on the show.” - Chris Brogan interviews Dave Gray
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Did you like this? If so, please consider buying me a coffee! - Toward a theory of information relativity
All information is relative, and it’s always relative: relative to the observer and the observer’s point of view; relative to the culture and its values; relative to the situation; relative to what has come before, and to what will come next.
- Some basic rules for napkin-sketching
An example of visual literacy training.
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Did you like this? If so, please consider buying me a coffee! - How to draw a car
An example of visual literacy training.
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Did you like this? If so, please consider buying me a coffee! - Some rules for effective business communication
The link between communication and action can be measured and reported. We do this for financial and product flows: Why not do it for our communication?
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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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