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Game Design, Unreserved Creativity, and the End of the Sun: An Interview with Ryan Spangler
Game Design, Unreserved Creativity, and the End of the Sun: An Interview with Ryan Spangler
The sun is dying, and the various inhabitants of the planets in this solar system are launching one last effor...
Visual Thinking School: Slowing It Down in a Fast-Paced World
Visual Thinking School: Slowing It Down in a Fast-Paced World
We’re living in an ultra-connected and increasingly fast-paced world that is demanding more and more spe...
VTS: Captain’s Lunch, Engage!
VTS: Captain’s Lunch, Engage!
Captain’s Blog, star date -307557.1
On Thursday, June 11, Spaces Herengracht asked XPLANE to kick...
XPLANE Doodling 101
XPLANE Doodling 101
Whether in a seminar with a team of clients or in an internal meeting with a consultant, the XPLANE designers ...
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Anyone can make a pitch to change the world in which they live. Start with empathy. Draw the story. Pick a car...
Designing for Simple is Way Too Confusing
Designing for Simple is Way Too Confusing
“Keep it simple.” This common principle of design drove our creative team into a debate last week....
Voices From VTS
Voices From VTS
I've known about XPLANE for several years, and long been interested in the models they work with in their cons...
Defining Information Architecture Using Crowd Sourced Design Thinking
Defining Information Architecture Using Crowd Sourced Design Thinking
In today’s world we have access to an ever-growing amount of information, but it isn’t always as e...
Creative Briefs as Storytelling
Creative Briefs as Storytelling
Generally speaking, art students don’t consider themselves writers. In fact, many will tell you art scho...
Design is the Key to Success This Year – Make it Work For Your Team
Design is the Key to Success This Year – Make it Work For Your Team
It’s XPLANE’s year.
The Chinese Year of the Sheep is known for design and creativity and so...
How to Survive the Office When Your Dominant Hand Isn’t Available
How to Survive the Office When Your Dominant Hand Isn’t Available
I recently underwent a minor arm surgery (nothing major, no need for sympathy), which has taken my dominant ha...
Engage Your Audience – Transform PowerPoints into Clear, Compelling Stories
Engage Your Audience – Transform PowerPoints into Clear, Compelling Stories
During Get Naked! Let Your Message Stand Up Without PowerPoint, Visual Thinking School on November 7, we ...
So, You Have to Give a Presentation
So, You Have to Give a Presentation
Wait, did you just instinctively open PowerPoint? STOP! Did you know that 80% of the time PowerPoints (or slid...
Flesh, Blood, and Data An Art Show by Information Designers
Flesh, Blood, and Data An Art Show by Information Designers
Information designers go through a process to gather content, synthesize data, and weave their findings into c...
Visual Thinking School Amsterdam: Behavioural Climate Change
Visual Thinking School Amsterdam: Behavioural Climate Change
Last Thursday we held Visual Thinking School (VTS) in our Amsterdam office....
The Magic of Discovery
The Magic of Discovery
Put 9 experts from 9 different organizations on a project without much direction and you are likely to have at...
It’s Not the Why, It’s the What
It’s Not the Why, It’s the What
This is not the story of “Why” you should put pencil to paper. You should already know that starti...
How to Provide Actionable and Consolidated Feedback – A Five Step Process
How to Provide Actionable and Consolidated Feedback – A Five Step Process
“Should we use a different color here?” “Per Katie this needs to include a CTA.” &ldqu...
Envisioning Future Greatness
Envisioning Future Greatness
Articulating personal or organizational aspirations can run the gamut from exhilarating to overwhelming. But t...
Explaining How the Technical Level of the Internet works
Explaining How the Technical Level of the Internet works
Over the past few years our client ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has expande...
Card Decks: Tactile Tools for Pattern-Finders, Integrative-Thinkers and Inspiration-Seekers
Card Decks: Tactile Tools for Pattern-Finders, Integrative-Thinkers and Inspiration-Seekers
What do the Table of Elements, the first IBM computer, and the novel Lolita have in common? Before they were i...
Gamestorming Workshop at Nike
Gamestorming Workshop at Nike
We had the great honor of being invited to deliver a workshop for Nike’s Transition Management community...
25 Ideas for Visual Parenting
25 Ideas for Visual Parenting
Visual tools are amazing for communicating and collaborating with kids. Studies show that visuals help childre...
Helping to Visualize the Future of Internet Governance
Helping to Visualize the Future of Internet Governance
By Patrick Dodson, SVP of Business Development
We’re excited to share our work helping to visualize and ...