In his day one keynote from the 2010 IA Summit, Dan Roam—founder of Digital Roam Inc and author of the best-selling Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures—shares his unique visual-thinking approach with a receptive crowd in Phoenix. Transcending language barriers, his approach helps solve complex problems through visual thinking, and has helped resolve challenges at many businesses: Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and eBay to name a few.
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IA Summit 10 - Dan Roam Keynote
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The Conversation 20: Visual Thinking | 5 by 5
Dan Benjamin is joined by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and Mike Rohde to discuss visual thinking, visual note-taking, and the “doodle revolution.” They discuss how something as simple as a drawing can change how we communicate concepts and ideas more directly, and how this is beginning to change how people to business.
Dave Gray is the Founder and Chairman of XPLANE, the visual thinking company. He is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers.
Sunni Brown is the owner of BrightSpot Info Design, a company specializing in visual thinking to support organizational and group success. She is an Associate of The Grove, a freelance consultant for XPLANE, an Associate of Alphachimp Studios, and co-Founder of VizThink Austin.
Mike Rohde is an art director, user experience designer, working for Gomoll Research + Design, a user experience research and design firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is well known for his real-time sketchnotes at conferences like SXSW Interactive, SEED, and An Event Apart, and for his work on the recent 37 Signals book, Rework.
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IA Summit 10 - Dan Roam Keynote
In his day one keynote from the 2010 IA Summit, Dan Roam—founder of Digital Roam Inc and author of the best-selling Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures—shares his unique visual-thinking approach with a receptive crowd in Phoenix. Transcending language barriers, his approach helps solve complex problems through visual thinking, and has helped resolve challenges at many businesses: Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and eBay to name a few.
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Scott McCloud, author of “Understanding Comics” and “Zot!”: Interview on The Sound of Young America
Scott McCloud is both an accomplished comics creator and critic. His books of comics criticism, "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics" and "Making Comics" are classics of the form, and are standard-issue in hip literature classes around the country. His newest book is a compilation of his 1980s superhero series Zot!. He talks with us about how to read comics and how he incorporated the influences of the comics of other cultures into his own work in the ’80s.