Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
There are only 3 days left until the New York Visual Thinking Workshop. There are still a few seats available and there's still time to register. Come join Karl Gude & Dave Gray for a fun, engaging day as we learn how visual thinking can be used to explore complex ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
It's time for another book review. Releasing later this week is Luke Wroblewski's latest book, Web Form Design. Not surprisingly, the book is about how to design good forms for websites. Luke is an author, the Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc, and was a facilitatorat ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
In the visual thinking community, we frequently use the term visual language. Some would say that it gets used pretty loosely. So, today we began that discussion with 3 experts in our field in order to begin to understand what visual language really means. Neil Cohn, Yuri Engelhardt, and Dave ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
It's so exciting to see what's going on in the community. Just a couple days ago, over 35 people gathered from all over London for the first meeting of visual thinkers there. They had quite the mix of people from graphic designers to internal communications to musical theatre producers who ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
For months, we've been saying that while VizThink is hosting several events, our goal is to build a sustainable community. We've just taken the next step in making that vision a reality. We've just hired Ryan Coleman to be our Chief Community Evangelist. In his new role, Ryan will be responsible for helping the local ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Neil Cohn just published new research on how layout of a comics page influences the order in which participants view the page in the United States. In this study he explores how several layout choices (without content) impact the reader's approach to a page:
Z-path (the perceived order in which most ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
We've been working hard on many new opportunities for visual thinkers. We've recently announced workshops and regional groups, and even have more big announcements coming next week. Right now, though, we want you to SAVE THE DATES:
VizThink Europe '08
Berlin, Germany
October 12 - 14, 2008
Registration Opens Next Week!
VizThink North America '09
San ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Watch or listen this 2 minute, 3 second podcast for information about new regional communities and upcoming events including the VizThink London community:
Hint: Use the Full Screen Button to see this video in greater detail.
You may also download the audio here...
MP3 Audio File
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Just a reminder that we have two very interesting workshops coming up:
Friday, May 02, 2008 - New York
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - Chicago
Here's a description of the upcoming sessions:
Visualizing Information: A one-day workshop with Karl Gude and Dave Gray
Participants will learn how visual thinking can be used to explore complex ...
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