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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Visual SenseMaking Intro Workshop

May 16, 2009 | New York City | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Taught by Elizabeth Pastor, Co-founder and Partner, Humantific SuperCharging Business Thinking! For more than ten years, the Humantific team has been helping business leaders make sense of … Continue reading
Mapping Research Behaviors

Published recently in Seed Magazine: Johan Bollen’s “Map of Science”: ”Is it possible to anticipate emerging areas of research before they exist? What do scientists read when they don’t think anyone is looking? If we could take a real-time snapshot of innovation, what … Continue reading
Visual SenseMaking at Liquidnet
Last week the Humantific team began a series of Visual SenseMaking Workshops for cross-disciplinary groups at Liquidnet in New York. For more than ten years, the Humantific team has been helping business leaders make sense of complex business challenges and … Continue reading
Tiny Book Series
Just for fun we recently created a tiny book on Visual SenseMaking as a small gift to our clients. The first in the tiny book series; Business Concept Models / Collection 1 includes examples of visual models that the Humantific team has … Continue reading
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Design 4.0 Rocks the House

Continuing NextD’s provocative ReRethinking Design message CoFounder, GK VanPatter rocked the house at the EXPOSED 09 Conference in Phoenix last week presenting Design 4.0 / Social Transformation Design for the first time. Utilizing the 2009 NextD Complexity Scale of Design … Continue reading
Pursuit of Happiness

We saw this wonderful story by Maira Kalman in the New York Times and loved it. It is a terrific, lighthearted example of words and images combined to tell a story in an engaging way. In this case it is … Continue reading
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