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Starving for Understanding?
ReAppreciating Richard Saul Wurman: Required historical background reading for anyone joining Humantific is Richard Saul Wurman’s Information Anxiety, published in this first edition in 1989. Years later Richard did a refresh and republished the book as Information Anxiety 2. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Big Data, Beyond Data Visualization, Big Data, Big Data History, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, Information Anxiety, Information Design, Information Design History, Karl Weick, Richard Saul Wurman, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking for ChangeMaking, The Understanding Business
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Design For Care Published
We are delighted to see the NextD Complexity Ladder utilized in the just published book Design For Care, authored by Peter Jones PhD. Always interested in the application of NextDesign, Design at Scale, Systemic Design, ie: design thinking in the context … Continue reading
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Tagged Design 3.0, Design 4.0, Design for Care, Design Futures, Future of Design, NextD Complexity Ladder, NextD Geographies, NextDesign Assessment Tools, NextDesign Leadership, NextDesign Thinking, Participatory Design, Rethinking Design Practice, ReThinking Design Thinking
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Making Sense of Fast Company
Beyond the “Brainstorming” Debate: What Organizational Leaders Really Need to Know about “Building Better Brainstorms” Operating a busy innovation-capacity-building consultancy in New York City we do not always have the time to comment on all the innovation-related articles appearing in … Continue reading
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Tagged After Alex Osborn, Applied Creativity, Applied Creativity History, Behavioral School, Beyond Brainstorming, Brainstorming, Culture Building, Designing Inclusion, Fast Company, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, How Might We Origins, Inclusive Cocreation, Inclusive Innovation, Innovation Culture Building, Sid Parnes, Teaching Complexity Navigation, Think Balance
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Understanding Innovation History
The Gold Mine Between Your Ears by Alex Osborn is among numerous early applied creativity documents in the Humantific Innovation Collection. Published circa 1954-55 this now hard to find 21 page booklet documents the early applied creativity self-help approach by Osborn … Continue reading
Origins of How Might We?
Since the term “How Might We?” has been in the news so much recently we thought this might be a good moment to repost a small portion of an earlier article from our Lost Innovation Stories series that was published … Continue reading
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Tagged Applied Creativity, Applied Creativity History, Beyond Roger Martin, Beyond Rotman, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, How Might We Origins, Innovation Methods Mapping, Open Innovation, Sidney Parnes, Systemic Design, The "Opposable Mind" is Nonsense
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ReAppreciating Mathematica
Among the historical visual sensemaking work that inspires Humantific is the astonishing output of the Eames Office. Pictured is the cover and inside images of a rare explanation booklet that accompanied the 1964 Mathematica exibition. We are lucky to have this … Continue reading
CEO’s Are Designers
We are always happy to see others being inspired by Humantific work and/or the ReReThinking Design Thinking work that we do via the ongoing NextDesign Leadership initiative. The interest in, and uptake of, Strategic Design Thinking for business continues at various … Continue reading
Rediscovering Alvin Lustig
We are delighted to add 36 of Alvin Lustig’s New Classics to the Humantific Collection. The series was published in the 1940s and 50s by New Directions Books, located just down the street at 500 Fifth Avenue here in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Lustig, Humantific Collection, New Classics, New Direction Books
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Inspired by NextD Geographies
We are delighted to see many graduate and post-graduate students referencing and making use of NextD Geographies, a framework created in 2005 by Elizabeth Pastor and GK VanPatter to make sense of the design thinking community from a complexity scale … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptability, Adaptation, Adaptive Systems, Applied Creativity History, Data Visualization Beyond, Design Futures, Design Resilience, Elizabeth Pastor, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Infoviz Beyond, NextD Geographies, NextDesign Assessment Tools, PhD Studies, Resilience, Strategic Design Thinking, Systemic Design, Vizthink Beyond
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Lost Stories Applied Creativity History
In this series, we are focusing on lost stories in innovation history. At Humantific, we have always had great interest in the unsung milestones, forgotten stories, and off-the-beaten-path landmarks of innovation history, as they tend to inform present-day understanding significantly. Many … Continue reading
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Tagged After Alex Osborn, Agility & Adaptability, Applied Creativity, Appreciative Inquiry, Behavior, Brainstretch Exercises, Challenges = Opportunities, Creative Behaviors, Creative Education Foundation, Creative Problem Solving Styles, Creativity is Everyone, Design 3.0, Design 4.0, Design Thinking, Facilitation as Creative Leadership, Fast Company, Fluxability, Generation Flux, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, How Might We Origins, Humantific Collection, IDEO, Ikujiro Nonaka, JP Guilford, Karl Weick, MetaThink ChallengeScapes, Paul Mott, Resilience, Sidney Parnes, SidTrilogy, Structure of Intellect Theory, Thinking Styles
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Humantific Inspires SenseMaking MBA Thesis
It’s always great to see graduate students inspired by Humantific. Attending the Executive MBA program at University of Reading Business School in Denmark, our new best friend, Sandra Greve, recently completed her thesis entitled, “Towards an Understanding of How to Enhance SenseMaking … Continue reading
Lost Stories Information Design History
In a competitive business marketplace, not everyone wants to acknowledge that each generation tends to learn from, build on, or divert from the previous generation’s ideas and output. We see this phenomenon clearly evident in the various streams of Visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Big Data, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Beyond, Edward Tufte, GK VanPatter, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Humantific Collection, Info Graphics, Information Design History, Isotype Institute, Joseph Priestly, Otto Neurath, Statistical Graphics, Visible Futures, Visual SenseMaking, Visualizing Data, Willard C. Brinton, William Playfair
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Making Sense of Industries
We love and respect the complex history of what has become the sensemaking profession today. Here are more example images from Humantific’s Isotype Institute Collection. These are from 1955. The Vienna-based Isotype Institute team, active in the 1920s-1950s, is widely recognized … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Beyond Data Visualization, Business Design Thinking, Clarity not Simplicity, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Beyond, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific Collection, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design, Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Charts, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Statistics, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking, The Significance of Isotype, Transformer Role, Understanding Isotype
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Isotype Building Bridges
We are happy to share more historical sensemaking images from Humantific’s Isotype Collection. These are from 1943. In early Isotype studio work, one can find many great examples of sensemaking acceleration techniques that are still in use today, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Beyond Data Visualization, Clarity not Simplicity, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Beyond, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific Collection, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method, Visualizing Data
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Before, During & After Isotype
At Humantific, we have tremendous respect for the work of the early Social SenseMaking pioneers—among them, the central figures of Isotype Institute: Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and Marie Neurath (1898-1986). In the Humantific Collection, we have numerous Isotype … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Clarity not Simplicity, Diagraming, From Hieroglyphics to Isotype, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific Collection, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design History, International Picture Language System, Isotype, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Making Sense, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Charts, Pictorial Statistics, Pictures Unite, SenseMaker Dialogs, Statisical Visualizations, The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method, Visual Explanations, Visualizing Data, Vizthink Beyond, Words Divide
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