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.
Archives:
The book
More categories
Recent images
Communication Nation feed- Knowledge Games talk from the Interaction 10 conferenceDave Gray-Knowledge Games: A Grammar for Creativity and Innovation from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo. […]
- The design philosophy of the AK-47The design philosophy of the AK-47, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.In a recent roundup of thoughts from the Interaction 10 conference, Jan-Cristoph Zoels wrote:"Unfortunately [Dave Gray] illustrated his engaging talk with a glorification of the AK47 as a ‘powerful tool of change’. His agnostic design philosophy hides an ethical ambivalence and repo […]
- Values, motivation and businessI got these questions in an email interview by Garrick Gibson recently, and, since I get asked these things fairly often, I thought I would post my answers here.1) What do you value most about what you are doing in your profession? 2) Name 3 of the most important actions taken to start your business? 3) How much of your personal values played a role in start […]
- Excerpt, OSS SabotageManualExcerptOSSSabotageManual, originally uploaded by @bfchirpy. Thanks @bfchirpy for this little gem. How many of us have engaged in one or another of these activities over the years, without thinking of the long-term damage we were causing to the health of an organization we probably joined voluntarily? […]
- Complicated vs. complexWhen you make the complicated simple, you make it better. But when you make the complex simple, you make it wrong.Read more: how games can help your business engage meaningfully with complexity. […]
- Knowledge Games talk from the Interaction 10 conference
- My Delicious links
Click
XPLANEMy Flickr photostream
My Twitter feed
Visual thinking on Squidoo
VizThink
Selling to the VP of NO
Etc.
Thanks for visiting!
Tag cloud
- 7 affinity mapping bottom-up tree business communication conversations dave gray design Donald A. Norman Don Norman draw drawing Edward Tufte Events grouping groups information design information visualization interview language literacy mapping matchstick figure Norman podcast PowerPoint presentations seven sketch stick figure tree Tufte Videos visualizing information visual language visual literacy Visual thinking Ways of meaning Ways of thinking Ways of working wom work literacy workliteracy wot wow