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Craighton Berman
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Craighton is an industrial designer with the innovation consulting firm gravitytank. In this role he collaborates with teams of designers, strategists, and researchers to identify innovation opportunities, define design strategies, and shape future concepts for a diverse set of global clients. In addition to product design, this role also involves participating in ethnographic user research, (graphic) facilitating highly interactive client workshops, and using visual thinking as a tool for design-strategy and design-analysis. Craighton has led the gravitytank design team in the development of storyboarding as a tool for collaboratively designing experiences, which will be shared with the VizThink community in San Jose. Craighton also develops his own products to sell and exhibit internationally, acts as the communications director for the Chicago Chapter of the Industrial Designer's Society of America, and also teaches a design drawing class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . If you're so inclined, you can read his blog, where he promises to never speak in the third person. Sunni Brown
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Sunni Brown, M.P.A., is Owner of BrightSpot Info Design, a company Rodolfo Carpintier
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Rodolfo is the President and CEO of DAD, Digital Assets Deployment, a leading Spanish Internet incubator with over 14 companies in the portfolio, like Baquia and Cinemavip or Synerquia.com. Before DAD, He was founding member and President of the Spanish chapter of Commerce Net and is frequently asked to speak on issues of e-Commerce and Internet Business Models as well as about entrepreneurs and seed capital funding. He helped develop Servicom, the first European ISP to have 50,000 paying customers and co-founded World online, later sold to Tiscali for $3.6 billions. He was also partner in Netjuice an incubator company that was a leading shareholder in Kelkoo, sold to Yahoo in 2004 for 475 million Euros. Altogether, he has over 25 years of experience in online business. He also holds a Master in International Management (CESEM) and a Master in General Management (CESEM). He has specialized in using Internet in decision support in Management issues. He follows closely developments in the European and US Internet market and has interviewed over 1850 entrepreneurs over the last 15 years, and has written two books about Internet including Internet Hoy in 1996 and in 2004 Los Cinco Mandamientos de La Empresa en Internet: Ensenanzas Para Despues de Una Crisis. In addition to Spanish, he is fluent in English, German, French and Catalan and follows the development of Internet in those countries that speak these languages. He writes frequently in newspapers, magazines and has his own blog. Kevin Cheng
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Kevin is one of those kids who missed the memo to stop drawing after the first grade. Nowadays, he splits his crayon time between Brickhouse, Yahoo!’s internal incubator and OK/Cancel, an online comic on design he co-founded. He also co-founded a company for other like-minded crayon junkies in Off Panel Productions, an online comic publishing network. Kevin has previously exerted his sliver of influence at Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Local, Pipes, Adaptive Path and Trilogy. He holds a Masters degree from University College London in Human Computer Interaction and Ergonomics and has presented at numerous acronym laden conferences including the IASummit, UIE Web Summit, SIGCHI and SxSW. Rather than write a book himself, he’s found it far easier to simply have his comics appear in a handful of industry textbooks and magazines. He likes the flavour of the blue crayons the best. Eileen Clegg
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Eileen's passion is visual journalism and business. After a long career in print journalism and book-writing, she discovered visual communication and created a niche that she calls "visual journalism" -- using visuals to report on a live meeting, or capture complex ideas using a strategic combination of words + images. Her business, Visual Insight, began in 2002 and works with many think tanks, educational nonprofits, and top leadership of Fortune 100 companies. In addition to being a visual journalist, she is a book author and founder of the company Visual Insight (www.visualinsight.net), creating large-scale, real-time visual language murals for organizations. She has a passion for communication and exploring multi-media as a way to communicate not just knowledge and information, but emotions and meaning. Her clients have included Art Center College of Design, Kaiser Permanente, Federated Department Stores, Starbucks, Global Learning Resources, Edwards Lifesciences, American Society of Training and Development, IBM, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. She has been a research affiliate for Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org), in Palo Alto, California since 1999 with emphasis on future of learning. Before that, Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for 20 years with special emphasis on education and environment. She has published and/or illustrated numerous articles and books including: The 21st Century Corporate University (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer, 2005), a chapter in Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004), Claiming Your Creative Self (New Harbinger, 1999), Goodbye Good Girl (New Harbinger, 1998 with Susan Swartz), Becoming a Wise Parent for your Grown Child (New Harbinger, 1997 with Betty Frain). She is currently working on three books “The Shape of Thought” with Bonnie DeVarco and “Inventing the Future” with Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau, and “Writing on the Walls” explaining the methodology from her workshops. She developed a practice using visual language for storymaps in 2001 and has developed a unique practice that emphasizes metaphor, intuition and story. She has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. Martin Coates
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For most of my working life (22 years I guess !) I have been involved in manufacturing operations, in a variety of engineering management roles. I've always had a talent for drawing, but it's only really in the last 5 years that I have started to use this as an effective communication tool.
Working in the engineering environment I have seen the most dreadful PowerPoint presentations – we used to call it “death by bullet point” – and some of these presentations I gave myself ! There is nothing more off-putting than seeing people in the audience falling asleep, and believe me, I’ve sent a few off to the land of Nod in my time.
One day I put my artistic skills to the test and used a one-page illustration to communicate the concept of “Asset Care” to the guys on the shop floor when I was the Asset Care Manager for Bass brewers in the UK – and I had an overwhelming response. Since then I have never looked back and my objective remains the “one pager” – representing key messages on a single sheet using clear, engaging and meaningful illustrations.
So it seems that although I was trained as a "left brain" logical engineer, I've now tapped into my "right brain" creative potential !
For the last 4 years I have worked as a consulting engineer with a company called Beca in Auckland, New Zealand. I provide Asset Management solutions for clients - getting optimum whole life costing from their assets. During this time the demand for visual communication has taken off dramatically - I call the process Visualisation, and in my opinion, it's as much about dealing with people as being able to draw. The demand is so great that I have also set up my own private business to provide Visual solutions for non-Beca clients. If you are interested to see more, please visit my website www.martincoates.com
I tend to use a 4 stage process for Visualisation, broadly as described below -
Step 1 is to facilitate sessions with the key stakeholders in order to get common alignment of their thinking through recording key points visually. For me, the real value is in the agreed concept illustrations that come out of these sessions as they summarise the unified thinking of the group. People often say that they get most value out of this part of the process - by focussing their collective thinking into a single point (the drawing) to get agreement on what they are actually trying to communicate. There is also a sense of ownership of the final deliverable by all who participate - "people own what they help create". We also have a lot of fun in these sessions which is great for building relationships !
Step 3 is to colour the illustration using computer software.
Step 4 is to use the final illustration as a communication tool across the organisation (I generally produce the finished product as an A0 or A1 poster). Visualisation proves to be a powerful tool for communicating with all levels of the organisation in a language they can understand.
During recent years I have undertaken work for a whole host of companies here in New Zealand, and for a whole host of reasons – from communicating strategic vision, to mapping out business processes and procedures, to explaining changes to roles and responsibilities, and the response has been very positive. As an aside, I also like to use Visualisation for capturing the funny side of life – all those humorous life-events that words can’t convey !
I won a prize last year through Beca for Innovation – for building relationships with a key client through visually representing their maintenance vision. I used this cash prize to attend this conference, so here I am, and I’m really looking forward to meeting people I can talk (or draw !!) the same language with
cheers
Martin Coates
Bruce Daniel
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A strong advocate of high quality design in all things, Bruce Daniel has honed his design craft through the design of maps. Driven by a belief in the power of visual clarity and aesthetic presentation, his award winning work is found across the nation. An intuitive and inventive sense of technology and materials informs his design techniques, which make particular use of texture, dimensionality, lighting, transparency, and motion. Bruce serves as Director of Cartifact Labs, a development unit of Cartifact, Inc in Los Angeles. His own company, The Map Lab, dedicated to exploring mapping, provides project conception, design and support to a variety of clients. In both roles, he is engaged with the leading developers of emerging technology relating to map creation and usage. He has designed maps for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Backpacker, AAA World and Sports Illustrated. He is featured in Adobe Press’ Master Class series Illustrator Illuminated, and in Rotovision’s Size Matters, about effective graphic design for large amounts of information. Nancy Duarte
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CEO of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the presentation development and design niche. One of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area, Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations, whether they are delivered in person, online or via mobile device. Nancy's twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world's most valuable brands and many of humanity's common causes. Lance Dublin
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Lance Dublin has been an advocate for innovative approaches to learning and change throughout his career. He went from designing a weeklong ‘Experiment in Free Form Education’ program in high school to co-founding one of the nations’ first fully accredited ‘University Without Walls’ in his twenties. Then recognizing the impact of technology on the intersection of people, business and learning, he founded and built Dublin Group, a company which became a leader in providing solutions to improve individual and organizational performance, and implement large-scale change initiatives. Lance is now an independent management consultant, international speaker and author based in San Francisco, California and serving clients world-wide. He specializes in strategy development, program design, and implementation for corporate learning programs and organizational change management. He brings to his work more than 30 years’ experience in adult education and training, communication and change management, and organizational design and development. Lance has worked across a wide range of industries including financial services and insurance, technology and information services, pharmaceutical and health care, manufacturing, oil & gas, chemical, communications, hospitality and food services, and non-govemmental agencies. Lance is a regular speaker and keynote presenter at regional, national and international conferences. In addition, he is the author of numerous published articles, co-author of the capstone book in ASTD’s e-learning series, “Implementing e-Learning” and a contributor to ASTD’s “Handbook of Training Design and Delivery”, Elliot Masie’s “Learning Rants, Raves and Reflections,” and Marc Rosenberg’s “Beyond e-Learning.” Matthew Dunn
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Matthew Dunn is curious. He's had careers in business, technology, the arts and non-profits - all of them 'start-ups' in some sense. He was acting and singing professionally by age 18, and built a successful career over the next decade as actor, graduate-trained director and teacher. He chucked it all to drive cross-country and start over in software. In almost a decade at Microsoft, he wore 13 titles, worked in 3 different countries, secured 8 patents and completed a PhD in Digital Media in 3 years flat. Not content to stay in desktop software when momentum had shifted to the Internet, he left the MSFT (almost 10x as big as when he'd started there) and started the consulting firm Socratech , helping US and international companies kick off their Web strategy. He was then recruited to Intrawest, the largest ski & resort operator in the world, to spearhead their entire digital strategy as CIO. He left Intrawest to launch HTNG, a successful technology standards organization for the hospitality industry, before a VC recruited him to run LA-area music technology startup MusicIP as CEO & President. Now a long-time interest in visual communications and design are driving a new startup - Say It Visually! - founded with colleague Jordan Schaffel. The company creates visual communications pieces to explain complex services or products, ranging from Web video to print. Matthew reads furiously, speaks extensively, writes frequently, teaches occasionally and serves on numerous community and company boards. Brian Friedlander
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Dr. Friedlander is a school psychologist with expertise in the area of assistive technology. Dr. Friedlander has a passion for using all kinds of technology in his professional work. He is very interested in the use of mind mapping, project management, eLearning and Web 2.0 technologies. Dr. Friedlander readily applies these technologies in the graduate courses that he teaches at the College of St. Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J. Dr. Friedlander consults to many school and business organizations and is available for workshops, training and presentations. Dr. Friedlander consults to business organizations on the applications of visual mapping for information and project management. Dr. Friedlander blogs about computer technologies at assistivetek.blogpsot.com. Julie Gieseke
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Julie has developed her visual facilitation skills through a broad range of experience. Julie received professional training through her internship with the Grove Consultants International (Principles of Graphic Facilitation, Visual Planning Systems and Mastery of Facilitation), mentored and coached by pioneering visual practitioners and in her work for Capgemini in their Accelerated Solutions Environment. This experience has strengthened her ability to modify her skills based on the environment and needs of the client and participants. Julie is a graduate of Fielding Graduate University with a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Development. She is launching a curriculum of graduate level courses in Visual Facilitation for Fielding Graduate University in Fall 2009. As a certified Master in Neuro-Linguistics, and a coach Julie works with groups and individuals to facilitate creative and decision-making processes that enable clients to “Map the Vision”. She is inspired by the ability of visual facilitation to involve participants on a broader spectrum, incorporating varied learning and personality styles, which results in increased engagement, creativity, productivity and recall. Ron Gould
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Ron is a multi-specialist visual guide, creative director, project leader, writer and seeker of connections and integration. The infinite possibilities of creativity are his passion. Not taking it all too seriously is his goal. Ron’s corporation,Whole Heads, is made up of a marketing and advertising consultancy, a virtual agency specializing in brand experiences online and face-to-face and an online and on-location training consultancy specializing in getting the most balanced creative input and output from any sized group. Carolyn Grant
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Carolyn Grant started her career at Procter & Gamble 12 years ago in Consumer Research and found that corporate reporting did not bring out enough authenticity. After attending the VizThink conference in San Francisco last year she joined P&G’s small but growing Information & Knowledge Design group, which specializes in taking consumer insights and mounds of data and turning the information into stories. Instead of delivering eye charts and binders full of information to sift through, we carefully choose artifacts from research to include in the stories so that the consumer’s authentic voice can be heard. Carolyn’s background in Graphic Design and Digital Storytelling is combined with a passion for getting to know people and cultures. Dave Gray
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Dave Gray is Founder and Chairman of XPLANE, a global consulting and design firm devoted to working with the world’s leading corporations to turn complex business issues into visual stories. Dave helps his clients apply visual thinking and visual language to business strategy and communication. Prior to founding XPLANE, Dave worked as a visual journalist for several major metropolitan newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, LA Daily News, LA Herald-Examiner, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he won numerous awards for excellence in graphic journalism. He has also taught Visual Communication for both the Design and Business schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Dave has a passion for rich, clear and engaging communication. He believes that pictures have the power to transform the world, because they can convey rich information to anyone, regardless of culture, language or educational background. In addition to consulting with XPLANE clients and speaking at conferences, Dave has started an acclaimed online Visual Thinking School and gives occasional seminars on visual thinking and visual language. Learn more at XPLANE or on Dave’s blog, Communication Nation. Karl Gude
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Karl Gude has been creating news graphics since the late 70s and is one of the few visual journalists who has worked for newspapers, news magazines and wire services. Until recently, he was the Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek magazine for over a decade. He’s also held this position at The Associated Press and United Press International wire services. In addition, he also directed the graphics departments at two large daily newspapers, the New York Daily News and the short-lived National Sports Daily. During his more than a quarter of a century in news, Karl has covered seven presidential elections, a slew of wars, terrorist attacks and natural disasters, and countless medical and science discoveries. Karl diagramed what caused Mt. St. Helens to explode, how John Lennon and the Pope were shot and how the planes hit the World Trade Center. He mapped the route of British troops through the Falkland Islands and the progress of U.S. soldiers as they headed toward Baghdad. He charted the ups and downs of the U.S. economy and used statistics to illustrate how Enron executives lied to their stockholders. His next major endeavor is to create an information graphics program at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. Jessica Hagy
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Jessica Hagy is the writer/artist behind thisisindexed.com, an award-winning blog that uses common diagraming in uncommon ways. Her work has been featured on the BBC Magazine Online, in Good Magazine, The new York Times, and her blog was named on of Time Magazine's best blogs of 2008. virginia hamilton
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Virginia Hamilton has over 20 years of facilitation experience, working with groups in strategic planning, change management, and large scale system change. She works with post cards, images, drawing, and Technology of Participationâ„¢ tools as key elements of her methods and practice. Virginia has focused much of her work on complex public policy issues such as welfare reform, education, economic and workforce development, and community engagement. She began to use visual thinking practices about 8 years ago, when she discovered that both politicians, who have power to change public policy, and the average citizen, who is the recipient of public policy, both have a hard time grasping complicated issues in ways that allow real dialogue and breakthrough thinking. She has worked with groups throughout the United States and is based in California. In prior lives, she has worked for a Governor in California running a billion dollar workforce program, designed and built a house boat, designed and implemented big conferences and training programs, implemented computer systems, led astronomy field trips in a planetarium, and founded a successful non-profit. As a result of the first Vizthink Conference, she is working with Bob Horn to "map the mess" of an emerging workforce crisis in California. Robert Horn
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Bob is the author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century. The landmark book, out of print until recently, has been republished and will be available for sale at the conference. He is also the inventor of Information Mapping's Methodology and founder of the Company which is the leader in authoring structured content. In addition, Bob is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. His pathbreaking book Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century is recently back in print. He is also author of the Mapping Great Debates series Can Computers Think? and of Mapping Hypertext. He is the director of the project to apply visual thinking to public policy issues, working on climate change and energy strategy, nuclear waste disposal, foreign policy, as well as other “wicked” problems on the local and state level. Joyce Hostyn
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Joyce Hostyn is Senior Director of Product Design at Open Text. Her experience bringing the practice of interaction design to three enterprise software companies has taught her the importance of focusing on value, the language of business, and organizational change. Joyce holds a Master's in Communications and Cultural Studies and 15 years experience in the field of design. She's an avid gardener and the bane of her neighbor whose mental model of yards centers on grass. Noah Iliinsky
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I’ve been aware of good design and function for as long as I can remember. I see the world and everything in it (outdoor clothing, software, hand tools, food, shoes, systems, communication, etc.) through the lens of functional design: was that designed with the actual use and users in mind? I’m most interested in information design, diagrams, and other information visualization methods. I also work in interface and interaction design. I’m always looking for good challenges and interesting data sets; don’t hesitate to email or leave a comment if you’ve got a good problem to think about. I live in Seattle, and make frequent trips to Portland. Education B.A. Physics, Reed College, May 1995 Laura Johnson
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Over the past 32 years, Laura Johnson has taught in a variety of educational settings including those which specialize in teaching individuals with autism, dyslexia, and ADHD. In her position as a learning specialist for The University of Toledo Learning Collaborative, Laura has developed individualized strategies for college students with cognitive impairments, non-traditional status, and those considered English as Second Language students. She currently oversees the tutorial programming for UT's 350 student-athletes and collaborates with library faculty in studying learning theory and the development of visual literacy and thinking tools. Laura has been a life-long lover of visual learning, coming by it naturally through her love of the arts and a career in musical theater and dance, prior to teaching. Her learning strategies involve hand-drawn vizanalogies, which focus on the comparison of learning elements and involve user-specific patterns that personalize the learning process. Laura takes time to know her students and utilizes an individual's learning strengths in the process of creating each new learning tool. She has presented her work at a variety of learning and personal development conferences, such as the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills Annual Conference, The Annual National Conference for Learning Communities, and The National Association for Developmental Education. Melanie Lamoureux
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In her research, usability, and design roles, Melanie has worked for nearly 20 years helping companies (e.g. MECC, Lucas Learning, Riverdeep, Thomson Learning) develop new ideas into technology solutions. Instinctively, she employed various visual strategies to try to capture, communicate, and develop abstract concepts, complex systems, and user experience design. With the success of these strategies (along with her metacognitive tendencies), she began to capture these ways in which visual thinking could help everyone move whatever they want to create from concept to design to reality. When Melanie is not trying to make people's lives easier through better user experiences, she is off creating her own adventurous ones with her VW camper van. Zolt Levay
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My main work is to produce and publicize pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. As a result, I am privileged to work with some of the most spectacular astronomical images ever. I was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, of Hungarian parents, came to the U.S. when I was four years old, and grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. I became interested in astronomy in high school, particularly fascinated by the magnificent photographs made with the world’s great telescopes. Trying to make photos with my own home-built telescope helped fuel an interest in all things technical and a growing passion for photography. I pursued astronomical studies at Indiana University (Bloomington) that also included heavy doses of math, physics, and computer science. I left college with a BS degree in Astrophysics in 1975 for graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University (Warner and Swasey Observatory) in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1978 I left Case with a MS degree in Astronomy and joined Computer Sciences Corporation at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where I supported a variety of space science missions, culminating with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite. I arrived at the newly-established Space Telescope Science Institute in 1983, still employed by CSC, to help design and write software for astronomers to view and analyze data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. The next several years were a roller-coaster ride of anticipation, dissappointment, and triumph, watching launch delays, the Challenger accident, deployment of the telescope, realization of serious problems, and finally the successful servicing of HST in 1993. In 1993 I began to work in the Office of Public Outreach at STScI, now employed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). I started this phase of my career just when the first remarkable data emerged from the repaired telescope, and found myself helping to produce and publicize the first images. Ever since, I have been privileged to work with scientists and technical professionals here at STScI and throughout the world to assemble the observations into photos, illustrations, video and other products that we distribute to the public via the web, media, and educators. I have been fortunate to produce some of the most remarkable HST images, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, Orion Nebula, Tadpole Galaxy, Cone Nebula, V838 Mon, Helix Nebula, Carina Nebula, M82, among many others. More recently we have also made some effort to combine Hubble's visible-light data with images from other wavelengths including NASA's other Great Observatorites, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, among others, to explore different ways to visualize the universe. I am a member of the Hubble Heritage Team, which strives to showcase the finest images made by the Hubble Space Telescope. I helped establish the first STScI web sites devoted to publicizing HST results during the earliest days of the World Wide Web, and continue to produce content for the continuously updated web sites. As an early web service, we supported worldwide observations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s impact on Jupiter in 1994, collecting images from HST and many other observatories and making them available on our web site soon after they were taken. Little did we imagine the level of interest that soon caused systems to crash because of the enormous web traffic! Ever since, our growing on-line services have been extremely popular. I continue to help support the news effort at STScI to publicize HST discoveries, producing photos and illustrations to explain the science, as well as maintaining internal web services to coordinate development of news products. When I’m not busy with Hubble photos, I enjoy my family and trying to make photographs with my own equipment while traveling, hiking, camping, and canoeing, as well as occasionally keeping my hands busy with gardening and woodworking. Jock Mackinlay
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Jock D. Mackinlay is an American information visualization expert and Director of Visual Analysis at Tableau Software. He advocates the use of interactive graphics to help all kinds of people to think and work with data. He believes in data for everyone and warns that we should always question data. Mackinlay received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1986. His PhD dissertation described the automatic generation of graphical presentations of relational information including bar charts, scatter plots and node/link diagrams. Inspired by Jacques Bertin, he developed a composition algebra to generate a wide variety of graphical presentations and evaluation criteria to identify effective presentations. Mackinlay holds numerous patents in user interfaces and visual analysis. Mackinlay graduated from Stanford in 1986 and joined Xerox PARC, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access. With Stuart K. Card and George G. Robertson, he coined the term "Information Visualization" In 1991, they published three influential papers at the ACM CHI conference on their prototype system called the Information Visualizer, which included the Cone Tree, an animated 3D visualization of hierarchical information, and the Perspective Wall, a 3D focus+context technique that was effective for temporal information. In 1999, he wrote a book with Stuart K. Card and Ben Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, which describes the research in Information Visualization. While working on the visualization book, Mackinlay also worked with Polle Zellweger and Bay-Wei Chang on Fluid Documents, which used interactive animation to embed annotations, images, and rich links in documents. In 2000-2001, he took a sabbatical at the University of Aarhus as a visiting professor. Working with Zellweger and Danish collaborators, they explored how to do fluid annotations with open web standards. He also taught a course in Information Visualization based on his newly published book and a course on the user interface of mobile devices with Zellweger. The mobile device course led directly to a 2003 paper on contextual views in minimal space, which was research done at PARC after the sabbatical. At PARC after Denmark, Mackinlay also focused on exploiting advances in flat panel displays and graphics cards that enabled personal computers with 6-8 monitors. He described how to design wideband visual interfaces that fill the human visual field. He implemented several novel user interface techniques for creating seam-aware applications that target wideband displays based on multiple monitors. Toward the end of his time at PARC, Mackinlay was also a member of the PhD dissertation for Chris Stolte, who was working with Stanford Professor Pat Hanrahan on the visual analysis and exploration of large, complex databases. Their VizQL specification language for data views is based on and extends the composition algebra Mackinlay developed in his dissertation. After graduation in 2003, Chris and Pat founded Tableau Software with Christian Chabot to commercialize this research. Mackinlay joined Tableau Software in 2004 where he is the Director of Visual Analysis. He is part of the team that is responsible for forward product direction. In 2005, he added the Show Me feature to Tableau v1.5, which finally incorporated results from his dissertation into a commercial application. This work is described in a paper that was given at the IEEE InvoVis’07 conference. In 2005, he also supervised a summer internship by Jeff Heer which focused on graphical histories for visualization. This work is described in a paper at IEEE Infovis’08 conference. He is currently focusing on collaborative visualization. Jerry Michalski
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As a guide to the relationship economy, Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) helps companies develop strategies that build authentic, productive relationships with their customers as well as among their employees. Usually, this requires a blend of corporate strategy, social dynamics and social software. Founder of the independent consultancy Sociate, Jerry posts his ideas on his weblog there, as well as in his online Brain. He is also the founder and host of the Yi-Tan Tech Community Call, a weekly live call-in conversation about change. Jerry's consulting clients include the Institute for the Future (IFTF), Best Buy, Havas Media and DARPA, as well as a number of startups, such as Socialtext, Seedwiki, TheBrain and Radar Networks. Earlier, Jerry advised eGroups (now YahooGroups) and Pyra (which developed Blogger, now part of Google). A frequent public speaker, panelist and moderator, Jerry also produces and runs events, some of which have no agenda at all. This trust in people and intent is part of a larger theme. Over the past decade, Jerry has been paying attention to the word "consumer," from its metaphorical roots to the business models associated with consumer mass marketing. This journey has paid off in insights about trust and trustworthiness, ideas for new businesses and business models, and more. He is busy organizing some of these heretical thoughts into a book, as well as richer online venues. Jerry's perspective was formed over 12 years as a technology industry analyst, first for New Science Associates (a company like Gartner) and later writing Esther Dyson's monthly newsletter, Release 1.0 Prior to entering the technology field, Jerry was a freight rate clerk at Mobil Oil, then later a strategy consultant at an internal startup with Price Waterhouse. If you dig further, you'll discover he was once a guide on the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland. Raised in Peru and Argentina, Jerry speaks fluent Spanish and German -- and pretty passable French. Jerry earned an MBA in international business from the Wharton School and a BA in economics (mostly econometrics) from UC Irvine. You can contact him at jerry(at)sociate.com Elizabeth Pastor
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Elizabeth Pastor is Co-Founder of Humantific and Director of its UnderstandingLab. Her passion lies in helping people learn, understand and make sense of complex situations in new and inclusive ways. Elizabeth is also CoFounder of NextDesign Leadership Institute where she teaches Visual SenseMaking as part of NextD’s Complexity Navigation Program. The Complexity Navigation Program focuses on teaching 21st century design thinking skills to business executives, and combines Strategic CoCreation, Design Research and Visual SenseMaking. Prior to founding Humantific, Elizabeth Co-Founded Scient’s Innovation Acceleration Labs, with GK VanPatter. At Scient they created the Innovation Lab including all of its cross-disciplinary learning experiences. She holds a Masters Degree from Art Center College of Design in California, where she focused on the power of information design to enhance the learning process. Her present research involves SenseMaking for ChangeMaking in social and organizational contexts. Elizabeth speaks frequently at conferences in the US and Europe. Nick Payne
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Nick is a graphic recorder and facilitator based in the UK working across Europe. His clients range from corporate to community - including Pepsi, the National Health Service, the Arts Council of England, Schering-Plough, the British Red Cross and African Initiative Support amongst others. Nick has used Kinesthetic Modeling (KM) for thinking through his own business issues and is now using the process in conjunction with other processes to build powerful business innovation workshops. He works closely with John Ward in bringing KM to the world. Nick has a practical management background and holds a Bachelors Degree in Politics and Government. Clark Quinn
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Clark Quinn, Ph.D. has been innovating for business, education, government, and the not-for-profit sectors for over 30 years. He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to deliver engaging and effective strategies and solutions to learning, knowledge and performance needs. Dr. Quinn has led the design of award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as intelligent learning, mobile, and performance support systems. He has served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives, and has an international reputation as a scholar and presenter. He currently works on behalf of clients through Quinnovation. Ole Qvist-Sorensen
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In 2003 Ole founded Bigger Picture - a Scandinavian based consulting company. Bigger Picture provides visual design, learning and dialogue tools, training and consulting services enabling ongoing sustainable organisational and personal change. Ole's mission is to accelerate the constructive use of visual language, thinking, communication and facilitation in all sectors of society. Currently Ole spend a large part of his time devoted to bringing the visual thinking, language and skills into projects and processes dealing with the rising complex challenges caused by climate change. Presently Ole is working with change projects in Copenhagen Climate Council, Novozymes (R&D), Vestas (P&O) and Shell (Complex Challenges Group). For the last 5 years Ole has worked with organizations such as Shell, ABN Amro Bank, The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, WWF, the De Beers Group, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Novo Nordisk. The foundation for Ole's work is a strong pedagogical framework (Luhmann, Bateson, Maturana & Varela) for team- and organisational learning. From this framework Ole has designed and implemented small, medium and large scale participatory processes. He has developed more than 200 visual dialogue tools and over the last 3 years delivered leadership development trainings. The method he uses speeds up the co-creation of meaning; it furthers dialogue, enables engaging leadership and supports collective understanding, learning and action. The principles behind the framework, methods and tools used are inspirational in their design and easy to understand and use in multicultural settings. Ole is a process consultant and graphic facilitator. He holds a masters degree in Learning and Business Studies from Roskilde University and a degree from the creative entrepreneurship education The Kaospilots, where he also today sits on the pedagogical council. Ole has been actively involved in Pioneers of Change since 1998 and has since 2005 also been actively involved in the International Forum of Visual Practitioners. Douglas Ranahan
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Douglas Ranahan has developed a passion for the graphical display of information and data. Over the course of the last several years, he has worked with academic medical centers on a variety of topics, always employing a visual method to examining complex problems. In the past, he has presented on dashboard development and visual data tools. Dan Roam
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Dan Roam is the bestselling author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. Amazon rated The Back of the Napkin the # 5 business book of 2008, while BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and the London Times all voted it the best creativity and innovation book of the year. Dan has helped leaders at Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Boeing, and the United States Senate solve complex problems through visual thinking. Dan and his whiteboard have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, and NPR. Regina Rowland
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Dr. Rowland is a transdisciplinarian and has expertise in visual communication, intercultural communication, and integral theory. Her research focuses on the co-creation of meaning. She currently teaches visual facilitation and intercultural communication at the California College of the Arts, and at the Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Rowland also studied linguistics, philosophy, fine art, graphic design, and business administration, and has an extensive graphic design and museum exhibit design background. Her practice of installation and performance art lead her into the world of facilitation where creativity is applied to solving problems. She works internationally in corporate and non-profit settings, and consults educational institutions. Dr. Rowland's consulting business includes visual thought partnering, organizational effectiveness, leadership and personal development--through creative engagement and visual processing & facilitation. She designs interactive processes for groups and individuals, and has extensive experience in such methods as Kinesthetic Modeling and such tools as VisualsSpeak. Kate Rutter
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Kate Rutter is a senior practitioner at Adaptive Path, a San Francisco User Experience consulting company. During her ten plus years in the web industry, she's honed her talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through smart strategies and inventive design. She works with a wide range of clients to define and design their Internet and digital offerings. She actively embraces the term "specialized generalist." Kate's diverse and intense interests are constantly taking her and her clients to new places. Her background spans technology, marketing, interactive media, and business management. She's worked with corporations, startups, and nonprofit organizations to help them grow, change and successfully chart new paths in ambiguous times and shifting markets. Before joining Adaptive Path, Kate spent several years as a consultant focusing on web strategy and design. Prior to that, she was the Director of Business and Operations for The Crucible, a landmark nonprofit arts organization in the East Bay creative scene. During the bubble, Kate was Senior Director of E-business Development and Operations at Epicentric in San Francisco. Past clients include: Travel + Leisure, Dice.com, Globo Networks, MICA. Kate attended Wellesley College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art. She finds inspiration in a wide variety of subjects: Semiotics, textile arts, origami, code, urban design, fire, and other dangerous things. She is an active community leader as well as a formidable welder. Robert Schanafelt
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Robert Schanafelt is passionate about communicating big ideas eloquently and aesthetically through the process of visualization and the application of "just the essential" technology tools. His career is built upon a foundation of information visualization through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Cartography, combined with the hands-on software engineering skills of Computer Science. A creative generalist by nature, he adapts well to a variety of techniques and approaches for interpreting ideas and he wishes to further employ the use of visual media to communicate and educate. Coupled with his experience in consulting, coaching and group leadership he seeks to bridge the often wide gap between complex, abstract ideas and the subjective human experience of understanding. Currently, Robert works as a software engineer with O'Reilly Media, applying his expertise in enterprise integration, architecture and process to their publishing technology toolchain. In his free time he loves to explore the great outdoors and he finds joyful expression through east coast swing, improv and performing as a jazz vocalist. David Sibbet
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David Sibbet is an organizational consultant and information designer who, for 30 years, has been using visual to help people work together. His explorations in interactive-graphic-communications, structured experiences for adult development, and collaborative process design, are pioneering in the field. He won the Organizational Development Networks Members Award for creative contribution to the field in 2007. He says:
David is founder and President of the Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, a full service organization development consulting firm and publishing company. He lives in San Francisco with his poet/teacher wife, Susan. Jacquie Lloyd Smith
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Jacquie has over twenty years experience working as a management consultant and international speaker. During her career, she has worked closely with a variety of organizations developing innovative programs to help them navigate through change. She can quickly assess organizational culture and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness though innovation. During her career, she has trained and coached thousands of professionals throughout North America using hands-on-tools customized to meet their organizational needs. Most recently in 2008, she worked with leading Canadian scientists, researchers, and health care professionals by creating a game to teach those working in cancer research how to increase process speed to get their ideas to market. In 2000, she earned a Master's Degree in Conflict Analysis and Management. In 2006, she completed an MBA in Executive Management both from Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. In 2005, she studied business strategy and global business in Grenoble, France. She is now working on a PhD in Organizational and Industrial Psychology, majoring in organizational innovation and developing group genius. Jacqueline is also a Registered Art and Play Therapist. She is a certified facilitator, trainer and global partner with LEGO® Serious Play™ a division of the LEGO® Group from Denmark. Doug Smith
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Douglas (Doug) Smith is a natural team builder, a musician and co-founder of Lloyd Smith Solutions with over 30 years of hands-on experience in business development and risk management. His knowledge and understanding of the functions of both the private and non-profit sectors make Doug an invaluable resource. Doug has focused his professional attention on community and economic development. Aside from his success in the private business sector, he has spent a considerable amount of time working with many non-profit groups. To his credit, he has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions, including the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce Businessman of the Year 2006, and the Charles J. Carter Award of Excellence 2003. Doug Van Slembrouck
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Doug Van Slembrouck is a Senior Design Manager at Plexus Systems Inc, a software company in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Plexus Systems is devoted to providing evolving business software that is a joy to use, anytime, anywhere to manufacturers worldwide. Plexus provides On-Demand access to Plexus Online, a true on-demand manufacturing performance system, managing production, distribution and global supply chains, accounting, financials, compliance and human resources and other top business functionality. Prior to Plexus, Doug was Chief Web Architect at Anchor Wave Internet Solutions. Anchor Wave is a locally owned web design and development company serving Tucson, AZ and the surrounding area, providing internet solutions for businesses that are seeking to establish or increase their web presence. While at Anchor Wave, Doug was able to help take the company from a small start up to a large team of professionals. Over the past ten years, Doug has gained valuable software design and development experience while at several small start ups as well as larger corporations. His ability to communicate effectively from everyone from shop floor line workers to CEO's has given him a world of perspective crucial to understanding messages and being able to productively describe them. Doug's passion lies in elegant design, helpful communication, and positive motivation for business teams. He is the proud creator of plex.com, the constantly evolving, high lead generation website for Plexus Systems, and develops Visual Thinking training for Sales and Management teams. Doug has a BS in Management Information Systems and Applied Technology (ATiB) from Oakland University. He has worked as a consultant for Comerica Bank, Beaumont Hospitals, and Eaton, as well as an adjunct instructor at Rochester College and Oakland University.
He is also the author of The Art Of Living Awesome, a blog devoted to understanding what it means to live life as awesome as possible and never settle for ordinary. Doug lives in downtown Rochester with his girlfriend and their chocolate lab Jeffery.
Flickr Stream: http://flickr.com/photos/dougvanslembrouck/sets/ Carol Vollmer
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Carol Vollmer is an educational specialist in the Dept of Veterans Affairs. She has used graphic recording and graphic facilitation for the last 10 years to enhance training and facilitate focus groups and strategic planning throughout the VA. Her innovative use of graphic recording to reinforce learning events has been recognized by the VA for its cutting edge approach to training. For example, Carol innovatively uses ‘tag clouds’ and graphics to synthesize the output of multiple groups discussing a single topic. She has extended the use of graphic techniques into the private sector through her company, Visualizing It. John Ward
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Graphic facilitator for 12 yrs with global clientele in corporate, government, education & small business including companies such as HP, IDEO, University of Chicago, the United States Government, and the Gates Foundation. He has over 30 years of design and business experience, and has pioneered Kinesthetic Modeling methods with over 1,000 people. He received his BFA in industrial design from Carnegie Mellon, and his MFA in photography & sculpture from the Art Institute of Chigago. Colin Ware
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Ware’s book Information Visualization: Perception for Design has become the standard reference for those who with to understand what the science of perception can tell us about information display. His new book, Visual Thinking for Design, presents and active vision approach to the process of visual reasoning. Ware also likes to build practical visualization systems. Fledermaus, a commercial 3D geospatial visualization system widely used in oceanography developed from his initial prototypes. His visualization of global ocean currents has just appeared in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. Colin Ware is Director of the Data Visualization Research Lab. which is part of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto) and he has published over 120 scientific relating to perception and data visualization. Darin Westrich
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Darin's career spans over 22 years in design, visualization and interactive media. Darin has led global brand design of several hallmark P&G brands including Crest, Vicks and Iams. Early in his career (before the days of web-enabled content), he helped pioneer development of interactive learning at P&G for corporate training. Currently he and his colleagues are using design and visualization as a unique way to create effective knowledge transfer tools for product and communications development. Luke Wroblewski
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LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 600 million people. He is currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. where he leads the design of the world’s most accessed Web page (Yahoo.com) and many other popular products including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Buzz. Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.’s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also founded LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic. Tom Wujec
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Tom Wujec is a Fellow at Autodesk, a leading innovator of 2D and 3D design software serving the Architecture, Building, Manufacturing, Design and Entertainment industries. As a recognized thought-leader and award-winning technology innovator, Tom works with leading edge Fortune 500 companies to foster visualization practices and has many digital visual creation and collaboration systems. Tom applies visualization tools in unexpected ways to improve creative problem-solving, increase design efficiency and measure business effectiveness. Tom has degrees in Astronomy and Psychology. Before joining Autodesk, Tom worked in cultural institution, designing museum exhibits and computer animations throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Tom is author of three books on creative thinking, including Pumping Ions which has been translated into twenty languages. Tom is publishing his experiences business visualization in the upcoming BizViz: Using Images to Foster Innovation and Collaboration. Jill Zimmerman
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Jill's unique design, facilitating and teaching background gives her a vantage point for visual thinking that transcends art, science and human behavior. Her 25 year design and facilitating career with P&G has given Jill a special capability for unifying business knowledge and consumer insights into effective communications, plus a terrific ability to facilitate and manage a room full of diverse clients! It is Jill's passion for learning that motivates her to help others learn, develop and collaborate more effectively. Ryan Coleman
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I'm here to help and support the VizThink community as we grow to become a truly global group of visual thinkers. While just subconsciously doing it in the back ground for as long as I can remember, I really started pasionately following the ideas and techniques around Visual Thinking after a workshop with Dave Gray in 2006. Shortly after, I organized an event called VizThink Toronto in Toronto, ON - what started out as a one off event with about 18 people has grown into a regular series of events with upwards of 50 people in attendance. In May of 2008 I was brought onto the VizThink team to try and help take what I had done in Toronto and help other community members replicate the same in their own towns. So, in a nutshell, I'm here for you. If you have questions about starting a community in your area, or you just need some help poking around this site please feel free to drop me a line. - Ryan Your Host: Tom Crawford
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Tom Crawford is the CEO of VizThink, an organization dedicated to the creation of a sustainable, global community of people who use any form of the visual arts for learning and communication. With an extensive background in technology, 2007 was Tom's 20th year as a professional programmer. However, in 2000, his career began to diverge from enterprise systems design and implementation into corporate education, simulation, and gaming. He spent 6 years at Root Learning, one of the leading companies in the visual thinking industry, starting their e-Learning initiative and growing it into almost 20% of the business. Root's strong use of art and metaphor introduced him to the power of visualization. Through extensive experimentation and testing with customers such as Blockbuster, Pepsi, Holiday Inn Express, and Bank of America, he developed extensive theories on web-based interactivity, engagement, and visualization. Tom left Root to become Vice President of the Masie Center, an association of learning executives professionals. In 2007, he continued his focus on visualization when he was named the CEO of VizThink where he's responsible for overal vision and execution, event planning, content design, industry partner relationships, and facilitator relationships. |
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