When a traffic light shows as GREEN we normally expect to GO; but what if we saw a STOP sign, in its traditional hexagonal shape colored GREEN… what’s the right thing to do? This kind of visual confusion, where we …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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: …

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

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 …

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