   Adaptive Path holds frequent brown bag lunches where we invite folks to talk about interesting ideas. Andrew Blau joined us from Global Business Network to talk about scenario planning (read Peter’s blog post and Roland’s post for details.) One of Andrew’s comments was about creative misreading. Creative misreading was an approach forwarded by literary [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sketchbook'
Fave idea of the week : Apr 25, 08
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, creative projects, fave ideas, sketchbook
There’s something interesting about disconnecting natural and intuitive. They really aren’t the same thing, yet I have often assumed they are. If you look up intuitive, you’ll find synonyms: natural, innate. And if you look up natural, you’ll find synonyms of spontaneous, unaffected, genuine, unmannered. So far so good. But if you delve a little deeper and explore “intuition” [...]
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Fave idea of the week : April 4th, 2008
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, design, fave ideas, sketchbook
Working in a user experience company, I use a bunch of words to describe user-centered design: user experience, user engagement, interaction design, experience design, there’s a lot of words out there that triangulate the ideas around experience strategy and design, and they almost always are about the Web. That’s why it was wonderful to hear [...]
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Fave idea of the week : March 28, 2008
March 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · fave ideas, random thoughts, sketchbook
When Ryan said…”it wasn’t innovative…but it was innervative” It got me thinking…first of all, I didn’t really know what innervative meant, but I thought it had something to do with reaching out, stretching across, activating…like nerves. But it was an interesting idea, a great contender for the favorite of the week. When I went to [...]
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She’s Geeky UnConference in Mt. View
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · conferences, sketchbook
 She’s Geeky, Future of Technology, part iii I’m hanging with the girl geeks at the She’s Geeky un-conference on Monday and Tuesday of this week. So far it’s been an interesting time. Registration was smooth. The nametagclouds were a nice touch. Chiara Fox and Indi Young from the Adaptive Path crew were also there. [...]
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the EARP model
October 15th, 2007 · No Comments · creative projects, sketchbook
   the EARP model A few years ago in a moment of desperation, I came up with the EARP model. It’s weathered well, so I’m sharing it here. EARP = E-Embrace; A-Accept; R-Reject; P-Postpone. You gotta be careful with the last one, because it just shoots stuff back into the top funnel. Other than that, [...]
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from the sketchbook : mapping stories
March 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · sketchbook
Mapping Cloud Atlas Some books just have a visual structure to the flow. When I read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, the interwindings of the plotlines and the step-structure of the story arc were compelling. Compelling enough to claw at my brain until I could see it visually. Hence the map. [warning: larger image may [...]
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from the sketchbook
February 26th, 2007 · No Comments · sketchbook, slime mold
November 2006 I cut out interesting patterns to use in other creative works. Also, snippets from magazines that have relevance to what I’m thinking about…or what I want to think about. The visuals on this page became watercolored gift bags that I used to wrap my holiday gifts. (Helped with the watercolor skills, yea!) The [...]
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from the sketchbook
February 25th, 2007 · No Comments · sketchbook
December, 2006 Sometimes pages look fun. I’m partial to sticking things in the book and integrating them into the page. Maps and diagrams are the most common things that result. This is a page from craft night last year. Looking at it puts me back there among the smart, sassy women creating frightening cookies and writing [...]
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oh, the sketchbook and the blogging should be friends…
February 25th, 2007 · No Comments · sketchbook
I’ve been concerned about a blog taking over the space and work that for years has gone into my sketchbook. But the more I think about it, the more convinced that they are deeply complimentary, not competitive. Sure, they both take time, but each has it’s unique place. What got me excited was looking at [...]
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