
Celebrating Black History Month, 2023
Black History Month is a time for celebration, remembrance, and reflection. It’s a time to recognize the joyous and inspiring impact African Americans have had on the United States—as well as the struggles.
Welcome to /ness, the visual storytelling blog. Here’s where we share knowledge about visualization, information design, and virtual collaboration, show client work, talk about our business, post semi-weekly link roundups, celebrate obscure holidays, and share anything else that comes to mind. Edited by Bill Keaggy in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, ISSN 2771-7259.
Creativity, complexity, productivity… blah blah blah. More specifically: Rick Rubin, Austin Kleon, the 4-day work week, and Miyazaki!
Black History Month is a time for celebration, remembrance, and reflection. It’s a time to recognize the joyous and inspiring impact African Americans have had on the United States—as well as the struggles.
Creativity! AI art! Florence Nightingale! The iPhone’s new Action Mode! Plus a TEDx talk I did on attention, mindfulness, and creativity!
The lost work of a pioneering animator, focus and boredom, AI in spreadsheets, and more.
Ben Lytle is excited about what the future brings—he imagines an exciting world, far less divided by language, culture, education, and economic opportunity. In fact, he wrote a book about it: The Potentialist I: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years.
This may come as a surprise, but virtual sessions generally create more fatigue than in-person meetings. The combination of being seated, extended screen time, and the lack of in-person stimuli often mean that even a 90-minute session can result in participants losing focus and feeling tired.
Building consensus can be difficult. Of course, it’s rare for groups to always be in complete agreement and this isn’t unique to virtual collaboration. People have different perspectives, passions, and goals. It’s hard enough getting a group to agree on where to order lunch, let alone on how to deal with enormous issues such as growth, innovation, and transformation.
Today, let’s learn about curiosity, cave painting, AI and illustration, specialists vs generalists vs hybrids, and more.
We’re back it. This week let’s dive into flow, nature, storytelling, music, attention, and Paul Rand.
So you have a plan for your big organizational transformation, but do you have the story? You’d better. Visual storytelling and interactive experiences are powerful tools for effective and impactful organizational transformation and change.
Engage your audience by using the power of storytelling to effectively communicate data-intensive presentations.