CREATExCHANGE

I get a lot of emails about stickynotes: art projects, new products, interesting tools. There’s a lot going on in the world of “small things that stick to other things.”
But one thing is still missing: a simple, flexible tool for doing lightweight stickynote sorting and clustering exercises remotely. I’ve looked into a variety of desktop [...]

In the daytime, I work on creating experiences, building models of abstract concepts, making interfaces, feeling deluged by email and navigating the myriad of human contacts that make work and life play nice together.
But when I get home, I sketch, hum and play with math.
I’ll make one thing clear: I’m terrible at computation. I still [...]

Tuesday’s event with Dan Roam was a lot of fun. He joined us at Adaptive Path to speak about his book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. Dan is a warm, funny speaker with a wealth of stories about using pictures to solve complex problems ranging from business strategy [...]

We’re excited to host Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems ad Selling Ideas with Pictures. He’ll be speaking at Adaptive Path on Tuesday, 9/23, so c’mon over and get your sketch on with Dan!
Dan will present on how to distill complex ideas into easily shared and memorable sketches. If you’ve [...]

Last night there was a party at Adaptive Path for the completion of Rachel Hinman’s 90 Mobiles in 90 Days blog project.
Rachel started the 90 Mobiles in 90 Days project last June as means of “creative recovery.” There’s more detail on the project site, but the short story is this: Rachel blogged every day for [...]

I had the pleasure of meeting Andrë Braz in 2007 at an AP training, and was pleased to see him again at UX Week in August 2008. Andrë hails from Rio de Janeiro, and is a thoughtful thinker about how user experience impacts peoples lives.
So it’s not surprising that his UX Manifesto is clear, honest, [...]

mmmmmmm. The smell of Fall is in the air. Every September, I get that “back to school” urge to stock up on art and school supplies. This fall, armed with our trusty pencils, sharpies and paper, we’re knee-deep in exploring how lo-fi pen-and-pencil techniques can impact our work.
As Peter mentioned in a previous post, there’s [...]

Everybody seems to be clamoring for a seat at the strategy table. It came up at the IxDA-SF talk on the Worth of Design, it’s covered in an engaging post by Josh Porter of Bokardo, and the world according to Google says that 143,000 folks are talking about it.
Um, why is everyone talking so much [...]

In college, I spent a period of time working in the University of Arizona Art Museum as a gallery guide. I learned many valuable lessons there:

Do not do anything, anywhere in a museum that you would not do on camera, because you are.
There are art works that grow on you over time. Staring at [...]

Recently a thread went around the Adaptive Path email lists about consultant-speak and how to battle the incessant plague of bad jargon and meaningless phrases. This was yet another reminder that clear, human communications has become the exception, not the norm, of everyday business life.
This makes me both angry and sad. In an attempt to [...]