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Doing to vs Doing with
How shall we do our research and product building? Shall we do it to the users? Or do it with them? I wonder how many ‘orgs’ start with the intention of doing it with users, but inevitably end up doing...
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If you really knew me…
You’d know that I once appeared on a TV comedy show in a police line-up of bald men… This is one of my favourite icebreakers. It gets people talking about themselves, but heading straight for the...
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It’s a bit of a problem…
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem…” wrote G.K. Chesterton. Defining a problem statement can be a bit of a problem. This Thinkery was captured live during...
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Keeping Afloat
It’s easier to keep your idea afloat when you can see others working to keep their ideas afloat too. You are not alone. (Phew!) This Thinkery was captured live during a series of workshops by We Are...
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Big Oil Playbook
Our energy supplier Green has gone bust. So we’ve been automatically assigned as a new customer to… Shell. I’m not happy. This illustration was originally created for #breakfreefromplastic This...
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Big Plastic
I hate single-use plastic, and how its waste is a problem pushed down to the consumer. It’s where legislation is so important. One of my biggest Brexit fears is that UK standards will lag behind the...
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The Wizard of Pollution
We often don’t associate plastic with the oil industry. But it’s a massive market, and one that Big Oil is pumping billions of dollars into. Plastic is a substance with magical properties alright, but...
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Meaningful online
“We need to build an app.” Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t. Take a few steps back and think about what would work best for your user. Chances are, whatever you create will need to be meaningful,...
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Morpho – Remixer
A butterfly is something I look at and wonder – how did it get all those colours? Maybe I’m just looking forward to summer already… If you need 5mins of de-stress today, pop along to the Morpho remixer...
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Education & Work
This is an idea I created a few years ago using the Visual Thinkery process with Educators.Coop and their collaborators focusing on the world of work. The post Education & Work appeared first on...
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Things cannot be made simpler
I had the pleasure of tuning in to the initial keynote at ALTC23 by Anne-Marie Scott. She spoke about leadership in a crisis. I enjoyed a long conversation afterwards about all sorts of stories and...
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Two sides to the story
I’m experimenting with cartoons as Gaeilge (in Irish) in order to help me learn my mother tongue. I’ve been learning for over a year now, and I’ve found it liberating – but difficult. I’ve never had a...
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Venerable Diagrams
I'm a fan of Edith Pritchett's Venn Diagrams that appear in the Saturday Guardian (UK). Who would have thought Graphs could be laugh-out-loud funny? I think every visual has the potential to reach in...
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We shape our tools
"How do you find a good name for your start-up?" someone asked. "Hold it lightly - don't overthink it. In the beginning you don't even know what it is. As it starts to take shape it will start telling...
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Insight, in sight, incite!
I was reminded this week whilst running a Visual Storytelling workshop with a group of Social Entrepreneurs in Lewisham, the power of insight. We all stand in a different place and see the world...
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Facepalm
I created this thinkery in June 2016. That’s probably all you need to know. <cough> Brexit <cough> The post Facepalm appeared first on Open Visual Thinkery.
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Permission Slip
I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred people turned up to hear about my journey with Visual Thinkery – A picture says a thousand...
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The AI arms race
It seems that somebody somewhere is using new and sneaky ways of getting messages into my inbox. Will AI’s many fingered hands make the world more productive? I don’t know. But it will certainly make...
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