New to Visual Storytelling?

Next week’s podcast guest is Ekaterina Walter, a passionate marketer, who writes and speaks on topics of leadership, business innovation, and digital revolution. She is the author of Think Like Zuck and a new book, The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos, and Social Media to Market Your Brand. Below is an Read More …

From Startup Entrepreneur to Storyteller

Making the transition from startup entrepreneur and storyteller, today John Gray is a full time freelance writer. He enjoys sharing stories about startups, entrepreneurs, and emerging technology. It’s all about exploring the intersection of our human experience with technology. He’s a regular contributor to BetaKit and can be found on twitter at grayspective.   Download Read More …

Are Your Personas Flawed?

You validate with the marketplace all those User Personas or Buyer Personas that you create. There is a lot of science to them backed up by hard data when it is required. In fact, they are one of the hottest design topics around and one of the FIRST things we create. Sometimes right after or Read More …

Iterative Approach to Book Writing

Should you make little stories into larger chapters? How iterative is someone’s approach? I posed these questions to Peter Sims, author of the book, “Little Bets.” In the book, Peter discusses through stories the power of iterative cycles. Related Podcast and Transcription: Iterative Cycles Viewed as Little Bets Peter Sims: Well, I wanted it to Read More …

A Learning Platform for Design Thinking

Dr. Charles Burnette has been a frequent speaker in European design schools and at the European Union’s Cumulus Program on Design Education and is widely published on topics such as design management, design systems, ecological design and design education. He is now writing a book about the design model, its foundations in cognitive science and Read More …

What Happened to My Linear World

I grew up in the manufacturing world. I think I might have learned how to weld before I learned how to walk. I ended up putting myself through college along with help from the G.I. bill as a welder and later moved into industrial drafting. I even built process equipment. I loved process mapping; value Read More …