Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
We're very excited to announce Novamind as a VizThink '08 sponsor and exhibitor. Novamind is one of the leaders in the mind mapping space with powerful software with lots of cool features like labeling the link lines, huge flexibility in colors, flexible shapes, and the inclusion of your own images. ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Do you write on the walls? Do you want to take the walls with you? Do you want to re-arrange the whiteboards in the room to better fit your needs?
We're very excited to announce our next sponsor, Kinetic Energies. In addition to their involvement, they are supplying their Nomad Dry ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
As the regular readers know, our goal at VizThink both in the community and at the conference is to represent a large diversity of visual styles and approaches used for learning and communication. Well, we've got another exciting announcement in our next facilitator that adds the ability for us to find ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Software design is a complex process. Creating usable software that's both intuitive and functional requires a variety of visual approaches. We're excited to announce the addition of Dana Smith and Doug LeMoine from Cooper. Cooper, a San Francisco-based software development firm, was founded by Alan Cooper, author of two cornerstone ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Software design, usability, and the user experience are complex processes. From the initial concept to prototype to the final product, the process mirrors the development of almost any product or service. The entire process is ripe for improvement with visual thinking. The trio of Henning Fischer, Sarah Nelson, and Brandon ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
We're very excited about the addition of BOSSdevas a Premier Sponsor and Exhibitor at VizThink '08. BOSSdev is a global custom software application developer with a very broad array of capabilities and experience. In addition to enterprise and Internet software, they also create interactive media, games, and advergaming for their ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
We've already had an amazing response to our inaugural event. We've got an incredible diversity of attendees. Here's just some of the information about the attendees:
Companies
Titles
Avenue A|Razorfish
Bunge
Center for Creative Leadership
Google
Grove
Informatica
Mattel
McKinsey
Medtronic
Microsoft
Pixar
Stanford
Yahoo
...and many more
Director of Product Design
Information Architect
President
CEO
MD
Senior Consultant
Managing Director
Head of Marketing
Creative Director
Sr. Ux Architect
Director
General Manager
CTO
Chief Innovation Officer
Sr. Director
R & D Director
Web ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Many companies have good (or at least okay strategies). Where they tend to fall down is on implementation. There are lots of reasons that strategies fail. Sometimes they fail because the leaders don't have a common understanding about what the strategy means. Sometimes it's because the people who actually execute ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
We're very excited about the addition of Tableau as one of the sponsors and exhibitors of VizThink '08. As a leader in the data analysis and visualization space, their software allows you to take data from any source, create instant summaries, analyze visual trends and use the visualizations to understand ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
We're designing this conference to be different from any other conference you've ever experienced. You'll not just be hearing or seeing new ideas, but experiencing them and talking about them with your colleagues. We'll explore new ideas, approaches, and concepts using a variety of formats. Each pre-conference workshop, general session, ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
One of the consistent messages that has come through very clearly in our discussions with each of our facilitators, sponsors, and attendees so far is the concept of storytelling. Regardless of the art style or application, everybody seems to be finding ways to tell stories using images. Our next facilitator is ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
If you've been following the blog, you'll notice that we've been adding many types of the visual arts to the conference agenda from sketching to illustration and from photography to animation. With Lee & Sachi LeFever, we're excited to announce video as another of the visual arts to the agenda.
Lee ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
We've just created a new eMail list for the community. You will receive periodic updates and new information about the VizThink community and our upcoming events. We promise not to flood your inbox with email. Your information will remain exclusive to us. We will never sell, trade, or give away your information.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Over the coming weeks we'll be doing a series of audio and video podcasts with many of our facilitators at VizThink '08. To kick it off, we wanted to post an interview with Dave Gray conducted by Rodolfo Carpintier with Baquia TV in Spain. Dave discusses the concepts behind creating a ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
You've been asking for more details and more pictures, and you've been having great conversations on the blog. Hopefully, the newly revised home page at http://www.vizthink.com reflects and encourages that even more. There are new pages for session details, session formats, topics. Plus lots of new content on the home page.
In ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
The content for the conference is beginning to come together, so we've added two new pages to VizThink.com.
Topics- Just some of the many things we'll be talking about and trying at VizThink '08
Sessions - This page will be growing rapidly over the next few weeks as we refine the details ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
We're excited to announce that both Dave Gray & Karl Gude will be running pre-conference workshops at VizThink '08 in San Francisco! Both of these sessions promise to very hands on and active. Space is very limited in both of these sessions so be sure to register now. Here's a ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
One of our goals at VizThink is to start and sustain discussions in the community. To kick that off, we're starting our Visual Thinking Question of the Month. Each month we're going to post a new question out to the community. If you have a blog, feel free to post ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
We took an early pass at drawing the community in the post, Picturing the Community. Many thanks to Christine Martell for taking another pass at commenting on and revising a picture of the community on her blog. Be sure to check her blog for commentary, but here's her picture:
It's great ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Interface design is hard work, well, at least good interface design is hard work. It's often under appreciated. Visual thinking principles from other parts of the industry are also applied not just to the process of designing interfaces, but actually to the messages that the interface communicates. There are indications ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
The breadth of our Visual Thinking content grows with the addition of Kevin Cheng. We've got graphic recorders, information graphics, data visualization, presentations, marketing, brainstorming, visual language, organization, and now we add software design. Kevin is one of those kids who missed the memo to stop drawing after the first grade. ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
We're excited about kicking off the conference in visual style. On Sunday night before the conference gets underway, we're converting the conference ballroom into a visual gallery complete with wine and cheese. We'll be showing works from our facilitators, exhibitors, and works from local artists. There will be other drinks ...
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