3 weeks to an AR prototype
In February we wanted to see if we could add an element to our workshops at Oliver Wyman that would bring a bit more depth and interaction to the content we present. Our choice was to add a layer of…
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Workshop artifacts
Perhaps the most considered task of any workshop are the shapes and forms of the materials used in the room to spur lateral thinking. A roomful of people can generally stomach three group activities over the course of a day.…
Distracted Simian Seeks Same
If you’ve ever tried to sit and meditate you’ll know how noisy your mind can be. Thoughts rise and fall like a whirl of leaves. They distract, dance and fade and never seem to settle. Some are close and discernible…
Beirut Stories – Part One
Tiny rivulets of water coursed down the walls. It had rained the day before. And some days before then as well. It was March in Beirut after all. The season of rain. Even though it was cool outside I could…
Workshop Insights
Always much to learn from facilitating a workshop. First off, no more than three exercises during the course of a day. That’s nearly a given now even though I always try to pack in more. But – more importantly for…
Making as Sense Making
I’ve read Matthew Crawford‘s book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft” a few times now. It has earned a permanent place on my bedside table. I plan on reading it again several more times. He is a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute…
Journeymaps and the MET Framework
There area a myriad of tools now out that purport to make journey mapping a simple drag and drop process. A few of them are quite good and will certainly get better. I’ve been using my MET framework in my…
Alice through the Keyhole
According to Pew, 85% of us here in this country read news on our phones. Neiman Labs has done research that shows how differently we read news from computer screen to laptop to tablet to phone. Suffice to say that…
Oh Beirut
35 years ago nearly to the day. A city finding any excuse in differences to bury you. A car bomb, a bullet, a shell lobbed in a graceful arc from somewhere high in the mountains above the city, a bomb…
The Data Mesh and a New Currency of Value
Amazon and Alibaba are reconfiguring our world. They are both racing to become the world’s first trillion dollar companies and have spent the past ten years and more accelerating quickly beyond their original intent of just being a place to…
Sigma Seven
Archaeology now. Back in 1996 I had a design studio with my friend David Oppenheim. This was our digital press kit – on a floppy disk. We worked together for 2 1/2 years. We did websites for The Rolling…
Notes from a father to his daughter a week after the attack on the WTC
Notes from a father to his daughter a week after the attack on the WTC The rubble still smolders. The southern tip of Manhattan is shrouded in a brown haze. The air is still acrid with the smell of crushed…
Changing Minds
How can we reframe and unbias our news media habits? How could we become aware of our political biases? What if we created a news reader that could keep track of how many blue and red news articles we’ve read?…
The Designer’s Dilemma; Designing in the age of Moral Silos, Dark Patterns, Cognitive Biases, Fake News and Artificial Intelligence
I’m curious to see, in a world where we’ve begun to understand much about human behavior, if there is a methodology and practice that can be offered to designers to enable them to design for the good – for themselves…
Arcadia in Munich
Another amazing workshop – this time in Munich. Much to learn each and every time I do these workshops. For the first time my team in New York generated a customer journey using an algorithm written by Joe McHeffey that…