Mozilla’s Privacy Icons

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Admin

Earlier this year, Mozilla convened a privacy workshop that brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers in online privacy. As a result, a series of  Privacy Icons were proposed. These icons would be “bolted on” to the existing privacy … Continue reading →

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How Handwriting Trains the Brain—WSJ

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Admin

Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal reminds us that in the Digital Age handwriting still matters. In fact, it improves learning, memorization, idea composition, and expression.

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The LATCH model

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Admin

Here’s an insightful short film that illustrates the LATCH model (also known as ‘The Five Hat Racks’). In ‘Information Anxiety’ (1989) Richard Saul Wurman claims there exactly 5 ways to organize information and the acronym “LATCH” helps you remember them: Location, … Continue reading →

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Why “UnConferences” Disappoint

Posted on August 30, 2010 by GK VanPatter

After attending many formally and informally structured events framed as “design thinking” sessions branded as conferences, workshops, meetings and unconferences we have observed several dialogue patterns that are relatively consistent. Many informal design thinking unconference-like events seem to reflect the … Continue reading →

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40 Reasons Why “UnConferences” Disappoint

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Admin

After attending many formally and informally structured events framed as “design thinking” sessions branded as conferences, workshops, meetings and unconferences we have observed several dialogue patterns that are relatively consistent. Many informal design thinking unconference-like events seem to reflect the … Continue reading →

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Design Thinking Tops 12,000 Readers

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Admin

This week Humantific’s Design Thinking Made Visible Project topped 12,000 readers. Published on ISSUU as part of Humantific’s virtual book series this project book provides a glimpse into our ongoing Integrative Thinking Research Initiative underway for ten years. The book provides … Continue reading →

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ReReThinking the Mousetrap

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Admin
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The subject of many applied creativity workshop exercises since 1950 and still going strong, the rethinking of the mousetrap is a classic Design 2.0 challenge. Shown here is the The OneDown Mousetrap! by Aakash Dewan of DSK ISD International School of … Continue reading →

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Humantific at Copenhagen B School

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Admin
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In Denmark last week CoFounder GK VanPatter met with a group of faculty members at the Copenhagen Business School to discuss Design Thinking, Integrative Thinking, Design Futures, SenseMaking and ChangeMaking. Humantific is in collaborative conversations with a forward thinking faculty … Continue reading →

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Creative Minds ‘Mimic Schizophrenia’

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Admin
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Seen on BBC News: Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’. Associate Professor Fredrik Ullen believes Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. “[Professor Ullen] looked at the brain’s dopamine (D2) receptor genes … Continue reading →

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Tax Rate Imbalance Visualized

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Admin
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MoveOn.Org is now among many change advocacy organizations tapping into the power of Visual Social SenseMaking.

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A Century Apart in NY Times

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Admin
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The just published report A Century Apart was referenced by David Brooks in the New York Times today. The article entitled The Limits of Policy makes use of the social sensemaking contained in the A Century Apart report.

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Making Sense of Complexity

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Admin
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Appearing today in the New York Times: Making Sense of Complexity “Look at the military’s PowerPoint slide of the Afghanistan war, a labyrinth of cross-thatching lines and arrows swirling around words like INSURGENTS and COALITION CAPACITY & PRIORITIES. “When we … Continue reading →

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NextD Geographies Skill-to-Scale

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Admin
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Presented by NextD CoFounders GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor at numerous conferences around the world, the NextDesign Geographies continues to generate interest and considerable thoughtful dialogue on many blogs and discussion lists. One of its central ideas, not always popular in … Continue reading →

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Quantum Information?

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Admin
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Physicist Erik Verlinde at the the University of Amsterdam recently put forward the idea that gravity is essentially a phenomenon of information. “One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises … Continue reading →

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Playing with Baby?

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Admin
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If anyone knows who created the “Playing with Baby” series of comical diagrams please let us know. We have seen the series, which seems to contain 28 “cartoons”, making the rounds but have never seen the design credit. We would … Continue reading →

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