Presentations & Story Telling

Next VizThink Paris

[29 Mar 2012 | No Comment | 685 views]

We’ll be playing with visual dices at the next VizThink Paris to trigger creative thinking and engage story telling. All details on www.vizthink.fr

How I took Sketchnotes at TEDxBloomington

[17 May 2011 | One Comment | 7,246 views]
How I took Sketchnotes at TEDxBloomington

I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural TEDxBloomington event in Indiana on May 14, 2011. It was a fantastic experience and one I was so happy to sketchnote! This was my second local TEDx event, and I learned a …

Sketchnotes from Healthcare Experience Design Conference

[13 Apr 2011 | Comments Off | 6,280 views]
Sketchnotes from Healthcare Experience Design Conference

The first annual Healthcare Experience Design Conference took place in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, April 11th, 2011. What a day! The conference mission is “improving health through human-centered design and technology” and the speaker lineup was fantastic. I attended on behalf …

VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication

[2 Apr 2011 | 8 Comments | 7,179 views]
VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication

For VizThink NYC’s third workshop of 2011 BigBlueGumball took the crowd on a fun and engaging trip into the world of visual communication. Steve and Todd Cherches (also known as Todd and Steve Cherches, or BigBlueGumball) showed us, through three …

The Sketchbook Project: A Visual Concert Tour

[8 Mar 2011 | Comments Off | 5,591 views]
The Sketchbook Project: A Visual Concert Tour

When a person grabs a bound book of blank pages and begins to fill them, the resulting visual journals display fascinating stories, both deeply personal and oddly fulfilling. The unique storytelling device of multiple pages can allow the sketcher to …

Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”

[9 Jan 2011 | One Comment | 6,463 views]
Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”

VizThink recently came across a thoughtful book review pointing out “five less-talked-about gems” in presentation master Nancy Duarte‘s latest book Resonate. The review was penned by New Zealand-based presentation trainer and blogger Olivia Mitchell and, with permission, is largely excerpted here: …

[Simple Tools] Business Origami

[14 Dec 2010 | 2 Comments | 5,543 views]
[Simple Tools] Business Origami

What the heck is business origami? A type of paper prototyping…

New Web 2.0 Map: Locating the “Points of Control”

[1 Sep 2010 | Comments Off | 4,775 views]
New Web 2.0 Map: Locating the “Points of Control”

Interesting to see the Web 2.0 Summit continue to use powerful metaphor to drive interest in technology. This “interactive” map is interesting both for what it does and doesn’t do. The conference promises: : “More than any time in the …

Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution

[25 Aug 2010 | One Comment | 6,454 views]
Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution

Here, VizThinker Sunni Brown gives a concise and hilarious presentation on the power of the doodle.

[Webinar] Design & Politics: A Conversation With Scott Thomas (free)

[4 Aug 2010 | 8 Comments | 4,230 views]
[Webinar] Design & Politics: A Conversation With Scott Thomas (free)

Last week, Scott Thomas (aka @SimpleScott), Design Director for the 2008 Obama campaign joined us here at VizThink for a conversation about his experiences during the campaign and how design played a key role in helping their candidate deliver a …