Dr. Susan Weinschenk shares seven principles to make your website more engaging - principles of Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust (PET).http://www.humanfactors.com/PETposter.asp
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From Design thinking to transmedia storytelling, visual thinking puts our minds and imaginations to use more profoundly than words alone.
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The city's Department of Records has digitized more than 870,000 photos that date back to the mid-1800s taken by city engineers, photographers and police detectives.
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If you ask, "Where's the visual innovation in this article?" you only have to look at the massive amount of rich content being offered now to anyone with access to the net. The pictures apparently are preserved in a way that will make them useful for (we hope) centuries, and historians and storytellers may now dig deeply into this well of imagery for inspiration and guidance.
The pictures chosen for this article are quite stimulating as a taste, but not even an eyedroppers' worth of the 870,000 pictures that stretch back into the mid-1800s. Delete the scoop?
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Better than drawing, watch this video and download the study on hand gestures; it will be so important as we move to devices that funtion beyond simple figure-on-touch-screen controls. Delete the scoop?
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" Dr Ian Green from the School of Education here at Adelaide and I [Allan Carrington] have used Padagogy 101 (introduction to iPad in HE) and Padagogy 201 (more advanced use for L&T) to train over 600 faculty from universities in Australia. During my research I saw lots of great work done by others using Bloom’s Taxonomy including the Revised Taxonomy which has now become the Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. However when I discovered the excellent pioneer work done by Kathy Schrock with “Bloomin’ Apps” I got the idea for the Padagogy Wheel. Dare I say it but it is the next version for mobile learning of the ongoing importance of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Bloom’s is still fundamental to good teaching and learning." Via Anne Whaits
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This can be applied it other areas as well... in particular, I think there's wonderful use for the UX/Service Design processes that could be applied.
Graphic facilitators can also take tips from this, with pad-based apps giving us more ways ot approch processing/learning/synthesizing information. 
Audrey's comment,
May 15, 4:14 PM
Audrey@homeschoolsource.co.uk. I think the padagogy wheel is fantastic. I am going to use it right away
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From Debussy on, non-musical systems have influenced composers. Here’s how Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow shaped my work for strings.
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Although this article doesn't speak directly of visual processes, innovation can come through flow, defined as "the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter".
What the article does highlight is the process of using systems from other disciplines (mathematics and chance, most particularly) in the recombinatory process that forms the authors method of composition—a fine model for visual innovation as well. Delete the scoop?
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What are Lean Agile Requirements and why you should approach your projects this way.
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If there is a moral to this story, it would be to drop the weight of committing to up-front requirements and make it lean, light and agile to get to market faster, iterating based on testing and refining the stories as you go. Delete the scoop?
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A new, cloud-based tool for creative (visual!!) projects, built on collaborative storyboarding/scripting. This is the first product I've seen that puts the storyboard front and center, making it immediately useful to video/film production. But why not use it where storytelling is vital to your innovative process? Where could it fit in LEAN/AGILE development environments as well? Delete the scoop?
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Internet usage, and many online activities, have reached or are close to a saturation point in the mature US market—and that goes for usage among the young as well as older groups.
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What has all of this to do with Visual Innovation? Take in the fact that, according to this study, "Digital video is even more popular among Gen X Internet users than social network.." So does your product or service include video? Would you think more about adding it, with this knowledge?
Food for thought: visual innovation may simply include the use of video for instruction or connection with a particular audience that would be better served than attempting to reach them via tweets or facebook posts without video. 
Patricia Haddock's curator insight,
April 24, 1:53 AM
While internet usage is nearly ubiquitous in the US, mobile phone and mobile internet usage are taking a far greater role in digital activity among consumers of all ages—and uptake is poised for further growth. Delete the scoop?
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How to revitalise financial data flows with strategic visualisation.
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Here is an approach based on building a data flow diagram from a visual template and using a facilitated approach to uncover hidden sub-systems, potential bottlenecks and other elements that might not be clearly evident. Within this visual demonstration of this methodology you can view a more traditional visual, and one that has greater use of visual elements to give deeper information and greater meaning to the diagram. Delete the scoop?
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An interactive book on Systems Thinking, Modeling and Simulation. Mastering the hidden connections that matter.
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This has terrific potential, especially with the promise of a modeling system you can use on your iPad. Please consider contributing to the project. Delete the scoop?
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Learn how Connect + Develop works with global innovation partners, what the current needs are for C+D as well as read success stories from past new product development partnerships.
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Are you ready to join P&G in open innovation?
P&G has a Connect + Develop Team that has a completely open-door policy for outside innovation, whether coming from individual efforts or companies looking to find the gigantic reach and resourses of consumer goods giant P&G.
I haven't gone fully through the site yet, but it's a strong indication of how the open approach is being embraced by this kind of company.
Chris Chan's comment,
February 28, 1:01 AM
Hi Dean, glad you enjoy using the P&G open innovation portal. Just to let you know it is developed by the company I am working at, Inova Software. Feel free to let me know your opinion about the site!
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Check out some of the new web technologies that will transform the internet. Brought to you exclusively by fresh tilled soil
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While the Kinect and Wii have changed gaming, look at these new uses of API's that take advantage of your lowly built-in web camera, for instance, in changing what interaction will mean in web technology. Delete the scoop?
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Infographic Designer and Graphic Designer in London
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Cleverly answered (at first) through a diagram, Jack Hagley gives some visual answers but attempts to distinguish the differences primarily on how they are put together and their purpose for their use. He doesn't carry on much about the issues of aesthetics, but more factually starts from their similarities and then points out where they diverge.
Not a bad resource if you are asked for a comparison. Delete the scoop?
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Dean Meyers's insight:
For those looking to make interactive data visualizations come to life on the web, start with this book: the D3.js library of javascript tools is the star, front and center. It's a terrific solution, though there are browsers still out there (older ones, of course) that can't use SVG graphics, and you'll have to find alternative solutions.
However, the book is uniquely suited for reading on the web, as you can see the examples in action.
Be kind, and go the next step and purchase the downloadable e-book version (of which I have no financial interest, but I do believe authors should be rewarded for their work). Delete the scoop?
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Robert Pratten: 'Simple one-sheet to help transmedia storytellers present their projects. The aim is to get some consistency of presentation so that those listening can "get it"' Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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A visual framework that quickly identifies the strongest leanings in the type of story experience desired. 
Idea Catalyst's comment,
May 22, 10:03 AM
@IdeaCatalyst1 Framing Ideas: We are storytellers! Thanks. NYC
LucaVanin's comment,
May 22, 11:40 AM
:-) it sounds strange also in Italian: StoryTellers has a Bad connotate, someone who tells not true stories! :-)
Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s comment,
May 23, 7:04 PM
That's so interesting, LucaVanin. We do tend to take our own cultural language for granted, and maybe that is also the lesson in storytelling. Check how it sounds in a different language. I so appreciate everyone's comments, too. Hopefully this sheet will be helpful.
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Dean Meyers's insight:
Stephen Few, of perceptualedge.com has taken all of Edward Tufte's ideas and moved forward with some of his own for the display of quantitative data. The article here is a new idea in quantitative displays for geospatial displays that gives greater accuracy at a glance over the popular "bubbles".
Read through the article, look at the suggested links and see if you have an good use for it.
I somehow think that someone sophisticated in using D3.js will add this into the library pretty quickly. Delete the scoop?
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The days of relying on a UX Designer for the whole experience are done. Collaboration has won out, and every team member needs to know how to contribute to product development. Delete the scoop?
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Dean Meyers's insight:
With so much of my visualization work depending on symbols and icons, and realizing that I might have to consider the age of my audience as I am working, I thought this was an interesting article to stimulate my thinking about iconography. Am I keeping up with what is now commonplace in visual language, or am I behind the times?
Food for visual thought! 
Lionel Hillion's curator insight,
April 11, 9:14 AM
Un article qui rappelle à bon escient qu'il est de bon alloi d'adapter les icones à notre époque ! Delete the scoop?
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By @jason_silva and @notthisbody - Special thanks to filmmaker/photographer Rob Whitworth for allowing a clip from his video (https://vimeo.com/32958521) to be…
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Look for patterns, look at nature... The video is short yet says much. 
Michael Allenberg's curator insight,
April 5, 8:53 PM
The greatest insight into understanding the needs of all end-users, regardless of the product, is recognizing their behavioral patterns. Delete the scoop?
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The most common image of an innovator is of a kid developing a great idea in a garage. But that is the exception to the rule. Via Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
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The Times makes the subtle yet valid point that it takes time for innovators and innovation to become recognized and often for it to be adopted. Many business sectors have been obsessed with "youth" and "freshness" (watch MadMen's earliest seasons about that), yet call in the experienced consultants to facilitate change and innovation—often people in their 40's and 50's with great experience in negotiating change.
I put this in the "Visual Innovation" category because I've met many innovators who didn't become inspired to take greater risks until they were more seasoned (read: OLDER), and often were more open to other methods of discovering new things. Enter visual thinking and design thinking, for instance.
In any case, food for thought if you are worried about your next career move after you've done the same thing (at perhaps 2 or three places) for the last 10 years. Delete the scoop?
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Brian Sullivan is the Usability Principal at the Sabre Human Factors Center.
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Key points include: 1) sketch, sketch, sketch! (and Mr. Sullivan suggests NOT using the iPad!), particularly sketching by yourself, then checking with experts (reviewing together); annotate and don't use bound sketch books, just work loosely so you can cluster and group sketches together later; 2) Idea generation should come from quantity, which will lead to quality; 3) Avoid ALL self-judgement (positive OR negative) while sketching 4) Be novel (recombine things, go far) 5) Be focused, but take breaks when you have to.
There's more, but really an excellent methodology for how to be creative for a wide variety of fields.
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Dean Meyers's insight:
Visuals, data and storytelling... isn't that becoming a natural combination? This article shows students' work, and, more importantly, the process they went through to create these visual stories.
Note how storyboarding (as used in creating movies) is used in the process, as well as both visual metaphors and extremely evocative photography—nothing beats realistic images with human beings for impact.
Kudos to the students, and thanks for the eye-opening view behind the scenes to inspire us to create visual stories out of data. Delete the scoop?
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View all of Ud’s Presentations.
Dean Meyers's insight:
A very rich presentation, which, boiled down, gets to the heart of USER experience: it's not the device, it's figuring out what the user is after, and bringing that to the forefront.
A good part of the presentation adresses the conundrum, do we design two sites, one desktop/laptop, one "mobile"? Without going into the "responsive" answer of a single site for all that changes based on the device, the presentation does a good job of covering whether you are going after serving tasks or serving content.
Visual thinkers take note, there's less "right or wrong" explored here, and more "if-then", so enjoy the ambiguity. Delete the scoop?
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A talk I gave to (mostly) business owners and developers at Jersey Shore Tech Meetup #22. In an effort to explain the application of design for considering the
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From my friend Chris Pallé (@chrispalle) - a terrific deck explaining how the theory of user experience comes out of, well, real user experiences, and design for products is not the same. He does a visual customer service journey through the slides, cleverly bringing out touchpoints through the process. Then he does a deep dive to explain various methods and elements that go into creating designs that respond to data gathered about the user, the previously mentioned journey, and how to get that potential client/customer to the product (albeit his examples are strictly design for web/mobile sites).
A great reference and learning tool, worth bookmarking.
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Dr. Susan Weinschenk, in 60 minutes, clarifies and distills vital information about how people see, what they see, and what the want to look for when they are using the web or devices.
She discusses key ideas designers normally wouldn't think of, such as where people focus their visual attention, the importance of peripheral vision, a little bit about fonts and color and more, all based on research.
Spend the hour watching the presentation (and make notes, it will come in handy when you work on your next screen design. 
Dean Meyers's comment,
February 23, 4:37 PM
In theory, yes... but designers are often pressed into "designing" for other reasons or other purposes than helping people find things easily on a site. Or, as Dr. Weinschenk notes, there are counterintuitive factors that may play a part in how people are able to take in information visually (see her point about how we use peripheral vision to orient ourselves within a location). Knowing these things can help us design more effectively, and, perhaps, more beautifully and more delightfully!
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