An invite to creative thinkers who want to meet other, more diverse creative people and collaborate on briefs for social change. First event planned in NY for May/June but looking for more willing accomplices...
The Crafted Creative Team was lucky enough to attend UX Cambridge, a community-driven, practical User Experience conference. All of the team found both days extremely useful, with some strong themes running across the two days.
If you weren’t able to make this year’s conference, or just want a recap of the main topics covered, our Creative Team have put together a detailed round-up of the event for you to download and share.
As interaction designers we do well at facilitating the complex dialogue between people and the interactive products they use. But we often neglect to consider the story that evolves through the interactions people have with the things we make. Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions well and a product that engages the minds, emotions and imaginations of users.
Drawing on personal experience, narrative theory and examples ranging from interactive products to film, this presentation is a call to action for designers to equip themselves with a deeper understanding of narrative techniques. We’ll focus on core aspects such as theme, scene-making, and sequencing to illustrate how thinking like a storyteller can make you a better designer. You’ll also learn how this approach can be a powerful basis for holistic design.
Link to video: http://www.ixda.org/resources/cindy-chastain-thinking-storyteller
There are 50.5 million Latinos in the US today and that number is rapidly growing. Latino social media and mobile usage surpass the usage of Caucasians, African-American, and Asians. They are technologically and social media savvy, and most importantly, they are big spenders in this category. This presentation discusses the growth of Latinos as a population in the US and the trends in their adoption of social media and mobile technologies.
Adaption or Extinction? What You Need to Know.Kevin Dugan
My presentation for the Solo PR Pro Summit on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - an updated, enhanced and improved version of my PRSA ICON 2012 presentation.
The Crafted Creative Team was lucky enough to attend UX Cambridge, a community-driven, practical User Experience conference. All of the team found both days extremely useful, with some strong themes running across the two days.
If you weren’t able to make this year’s conference, or just want a recap of the main topics covered, our Creative Team have put together a detailed round-up of the event for you to download and share.
As interaction designers we do well at facilitating the complex dialogue between people and the interactive products they use. But we often neglect to consider the story that evolves through the interactions people have with the things we make. Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions well and a product that engages the minds, emotions and imaginations of users.
Drawing on personal experience, narrative theory and examples ranging from interactive products to film, this presentation is a call to action for designers to equip themselves with a deeper understanding of narrative techniques. We’ll focus on core aspects such as theme, scene-making, and sequencing to illustrate how thinking like a storyteller can make you a better designer. You’ll also learn how this approach can be a powerful basis for holistic design.
Link to video: http://www.ixda.org/resources/cindy-chastain-thinking-storyteller
There are 50.5 million Latinos in the US today and that number is rapidly growing. Latino social media and mobile usage surpass the usage of Caucasians, African-American, and Asians. They are technologically and social media savvy, and most importantly, they are big spenders in this category. This presentation discusses the growth of Latinos as a population in the US and the trends in their adoption of social media and mobile technologies.
Adaption or Extinction? What You Need to Know.Kevin Dugan
My presentation for the Solo PR Pro Summit on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - an updated, enhanced and improved version of my PRSA ICON 2012 presentation.
A presentation to kick off the Indiana Public Relations Leadership Summit, Indianapolis, IN on 4/1/11.
Focuses on key elements to consider in five areas: brand, social media, content, media channels and change.
A short presentation on how to launch an advertising campaign that fails gracefully. This presentation provides examples when one piece fails, the core functionality remains.
"Failure Con: Learning from Failure" was presented at the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) on February 5, 2015 by Eddie Mathews and Joel Adkins. The goal was to discuss with educators how failure is an important process of learning and innovation.
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” - J.K. Rowling
Working in the technology industry as a woman is difficult at the best of times: women make up 59% of the total workforce, and yet they compose only 30% of the workforce at technology companies, and a much smaller percentage of technical (15.6%) and leadership (22.5%) roles at those companies. As women, we constantly feel that we must better represent our demographic in order to improve the outlook for women generally. Our failures in the workplace poorly represent our gender as a whole, so we must not fail - or so we tell ourselves.
Furthermore, high-achieving women are especially susceptible to what has been coined as “impostor syndrome,” or an inability to see the value of one’s accomplishments and a fear of being viewed as a “fraud.” Because we are all high-achieving women here at IFWE, we’ve all likely experienced this phenomenon at one point or another. How can we possibly be comfortable with public failure when we are already worried about being “found out?”
But what if we aren’t looking at things from the right perspective? As J.K. Rowling suggests, failure is something that we can use to be better and create better things. Rather than avoid failure at all costs, and perhaps take fewer risks as a result, how can we learn to lose our fear of failure and take bigger risks?
In this session, I’ll talk to you about how failure is an essential part of the creative process, both at work and at home, and how “taking the safe route” can ultimately be your downfall. From there, we’ll discuss actual techniques that you can leverage, using some examples from my own instructional design career, to help you evaluate your failures and rise up better and brighter than ever before.
As Samuel Beckett said, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” He sums up the value of the process in this short statement. Together we’ll learn how to be comfortable with failing again and again, and how to fail better each time around.
5 Ways to Get People to Show Up for Your Live Streaming EventsIleane Smith
Are you frustrated when you are live streaming and no one is watching? Here are 5 tips to help you get more viewers when you're live streaming. Watch the video for more http://bit.ly/livestreamtraffic
Learning from Failure: How to Bounce Back StrongerAndre Piazza ↗️
*As seen on ProductCamp, altMBA and PMI Austin Chapter*
Professionals are becoming aware that the journey to success increasingly includes moments in which reality does not match expectations. Recent Neuroscience findings shed light on how humans process those situations and open the door for us to act confidently and compassionately grow when faced with the inevitable of failure.
Can we mature our individual and collective emotions to where we process these situations more freely, learn in the process, and come back willing to perform better as a team?
What if we could increase our ability to bounce back stronger from these situations?
This interactive, two-way presentation will challenge participants to do just that.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
1. Defining failure and learning
2. The Neuroscience findings on how humans learn
3. Strategies to connect and influence others: the SCARF model
4. The Drama Triangle: 3 roles we often use to tell stories... And the issues involved in those narratives
5. How cognitive reappraisal can improve individual and team's ability to connect and learn
6. Leading change using these constructs: failure, insights, patterns, lessons, commitments
7. A step-by-step process to make all these things happen, graciously
Integrating JTBD into existing tools & frameworks / Jobs-to-be-Done Meetup Be...Martin Jordan
How do you link the Jobs-to-be-Done approach to the tools, methods and frameworks you are already using? After investigating the JTBD framework, the timeline, the four motivational forces and the retrospective interview technique, we spent an evening discussing the connections and possible integrations with related fields and disciplines, including:
• Value creation (marketing)
• Value proposition canvas & business model canvas (business design & modelling)
• Market segmentation (marketing)
• How might we questions (design thinking & ideation)
• Customer journey map (service design & development)
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS Case Study & Interview with Christy Dena TMC Resource Kit
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS is an award-nominated web audio adventure for the iPad (with a Chrome App version coming soon!). You travel across the web with characters who face ridiculous obstacles to being themselves. It is inspired by audio drama, audio tours, and alternate reality games...and it's about identity, mortality, and pizza toppings...
This case study and interview gives you a behind the scenes look at the creation of this innovative narrative experience.
I am a friendly and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary designer who is dedicated and willing to learn new things. I am based in the UK and I am a graduate who has just finished studying my final year in BA Design at Goldsmiths University of London. I have gained a variety of skills from model making and prototyping to graphical programmes such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I have a background in the arts and have had a love for drawing and painting for many years and have honed these skills. I am adaptable and love to learn new skills.
While studying design, I discovered how much I love how the subject crosses over many different disciplines and fields and I look forward to hopefully working alongside these many disciplines during my career.
I am a friendly and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary designer who is dedicated and willing to learn new things. I am based in the UK and I am a graduate who has just finished studying my final year in BA Design at Goldsmiths University of London. I have gained a variety of skills from model making and prototyping to graphical programmes such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I have a background in the arts and have had a love for drawing and painting for many years and have honed these skills. I am adaptable and love to learn new skills.
While studying design, I discovered how much I love how the subject crosses over many different disciplines and fields and I look forward to hopefully working alongside these many disciplines during my career.
Designing for emotion by letruongan.comAn Le Truong
Lê Trường An – Dịch giả – Tác giả – Marketer – chuyên thực hiện các dự án SEO, Social Media, Dịch thuật và xuất bản nội dung. Ngoài ra, Lê Trường An liên tục cập nhật nội dung blog với các chủ đề SEO, Marketing và nhiều hơn nữa…
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Dịch vụ Marketing – SEO – Content Marketing
A presentation to kick off the Indiana Public Relations Leadership Summit, Indianapolis, IN on 4/1/11.
Focuses on key elements to consider in five areas: brand, social media, content, media channels and change.
A short presentation on how to launch an advertising campaign that fails gracefully. This presentation provides examples when one piece fails, the core functionality remains.
"Failure Con: Learning from Failure" was presented at the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) on February 5, 2015 by Eddie Mathews and Joel Adkins. The goal was to discuss with educators how failure is an important process of learning and innovation.
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” - J.K. Rowling
Working in the technology industry as a woman is difficult at the best of times: women make up 59% of the total workforce, and yet they compose only 30% of the workforce at technology companies, and a much smaller percentage of technical (15.6%) and leadership (22.5%) roles at those companies. As women, we constantly feel that we must better represent our demographic in order to improve the outlook for women generally. Our failures in the workplace poorly represent our gender as a whole, so we must not fail - or so we tell ourselves.
Furthermore, high-achieving women are especially susceptible to what has been coined as “impostor syndrome,” or an inability to see the value of one’s accomplishments and a fear of being viewed as a “fraud.” Because we are all high-achieving women here at IFWE, we’ve all likely experienced this phenomenon at one point or another. How can we possibly be comfortable with public failure when we are already worried about being “found out?”
But what if we aren’t looking at things from the right perspective? As J.K. Rowling suggests, failure is something that we can use to be better and create better things. Rather than avoid failure at all costs, and perhaps take fewer risks as a result, how can we learn to lose our fear of failure and take bigger risks?
In this session, I’ll talk to you about how failure is an essential part of the creative process, both at work and at home, and how “taking the safe route” can ultimately be your downfall. From there, we’ll discuss actual techniques that you can leverage, using some examples from my own instructional design career, to help you evaluate your failures and rise up better and brighter than ever before.
As Samuel Beckett said, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” He sums up the value of the process in this short statement. Together we’ll learn how to be comfortable with failing again and again, and how to fail better each time around.
5 Ways to Get People to Show Up for Your Live Streaming EventsIleane Smith
Are you frustrated when you are live streaming and no one is watching? Here are 5 tips to help you get more viewers when you're live streaming. Watch the video for more http://bit.ly/livestreamtraffic
Learning from Failure: How to Bounce Back StrongerAndre Piazza ↗️
*As seen on ProductCamp, altMBA and PMI Austin Chapter*
Professionals are becoming aware that the journey to success increasingly includes moments in which reality does not match expectations. Recent Neuroscience findings shed light on how humans process those situations and open the door for us to act confidently and compassionately grow when faced with the inevitable of failure.
Can we mature our individual and collective emotions to where we process these situations more freely, learn in the process, and come back willing to perform better as a team?
What if we could increase our ability to bounce back stronger from these situations?
This interactive, two-way presentation will challenge participants to do just that.
In this presentation, you’ll learn:
1. Defining failure and learning
2. The Neuroscience findings on how humans learn
3. Strategies to connect and influence others: the SCARF model
4. The Drama Triangle: 3 roles we often use to tell stories... And the issues involved in those narratives
5. How cognitive reappraisal can improve individual and team's ability to connect and learn
6. Leading change using these constructs: failure, insights, patterns, lessons, commitments
7. A step-by-step process to make all these things happen, graciously
Integrating JTBD into existing tools & frameworks / Jobs-to-be-Done Meetup Be...Martin Jordan
How do you link the Jobs-to-be-Done approach to the tools, methods and frameworks you are already using? After investigating the JTBD framework, the timeline, the four motivational forces and the retrospective interview technique, we spent an evening discussing the connections and possible integrations with related fields and disciplines, including:
• Value creation (marketing)
• Value proposition canvas & business model canvas (business design & modelling)
• Market segmentation (marketing)
• How might we questions (design thinking & ideation)
• Customer journey map (service design & development)
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS Case Study & Interview with Christy Dena TMC Resource Kit
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS is an award-nominated web audio adventure for the iPad (with a Chrome App version coming soon!). You travel across the web with characters who face ridiculous obstacles to being themselves. It is inspired by audio drama, audio tours, and alternate reality games...and it's about identity, mortality, and pizza toppings...
This case study and interview gives you a behind the scenes look at the creation of this innovative narrative experience.
I am a friendly and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary designer who is dedicated and willing to learn new things. I am based in the UK and I am a graduate who has just finished studying my final year in BA Design at Goldsmiths University of London. I have gained a variety of skills from model making and prototyping to graphical programmes such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I have a background in the arts and have had a love for drawing and painting for many years and have honed these skills. I am adaptable and love to learn new skills.
While studying design, I discovered how much I love how the subject crosses over many different disciplines and fields and I look forward to hopefully working alongside these many disciplines during my career.
I am a friendly and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary designer who is dedicated and willing to learn new things. I am based in the UK and I am a graduate who has just finished studying my final year in BA Design at Goldsmiths University of London. I have gained a variety of skills from model making and prototyping to graphical programmes such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I have a background in the arts and have had a love for drawing and painting for many years and have honed these skills. I am adaptable and love to learn new skills.
While studying design, I discovered how much I love how the subject crosses over many different disciplines and fields and I look forward to hopefully working alongside these many disciplines during my career.
Designing for emotion by letruongan.comAn Le Truong
Lê Trường An – Dịch giả – Tác giả – Marketer – chuyên thực hiện các dự án SEO, Social Media, Dịch thuật và xuất bản nội dung. Ngoài ra, Lê Trường An liên tục cập nhật nội dung blog với các chủ đề SEO, Marketing và nhiều hơn nữa…
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Chuyên viên Marketing – Tác giả - Dịch giả tại letruongan.com
Chuyên viên Marketing tại BrainCoach
Chuyên viên Content Marketing tại FoogleSEO
Dịch vụ Marketing – SEO – Content Marketing
Presented by: Christian Bromann, Sauce Labs
Presented at All Things Open 2020
Abstract: Every open source project has its own unique story to tell, whether it’s a small personal hobby program or a big corporate-funded project. A project always starts with a single person making a single commit and putting it on GitHub. From there the storyline writes itself and, if done successfully, it will highlight the most important component of open source: the people, friendships, and collaborations.
Putting code on an open platform like GitHub is easy. There is almost no friction when you iterate on your first versions of your new open source project. However once it grows and more people start using it, it often feels overwhelming when they start filing issues and requesting your support. This often leads to maintainers abandoning their projects as they get burned out and users becoming frustrated when they have to transition to a different framework. People often forget that building a community around an open source project is just as difficult and important as the solution that the project provides.
In this talk, Christian Bromann will share his experience of building a community around an open source project. He will provide various tips and tricks that help guide you through the difficulties of acquiring new contributors and will teach you important lessons he learned along the way. At the end of the session you will walk away with actionable ideas that you can apply to your own open source projects.
How can you use your event’s theme to jumpstart your creativity when it comes to graphics, stage design, marketing campaigns, or attendee experience? I used the 2019 TEDxTUM theme “Dive In” to illustrate how this can be done.
Speakit is an intermodal messaging system that allows for the repurposing and re-appropriation of surfaces and privatized spaces by introducing guerilla communication. This system was specifically designed with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in mind.
This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making. Seung Chan Lim, nicknamed Slim discusses his journey and finally his project, Realizing Empathy. Through this project Slim hopes to share ideas, tools, and other ways to facilitate a meaningful, sustainable, and constructive conversations between and among diverse perspectives whether that’s between people or between people and materials or between people and machines by using “making” as the shared metaphor.
Ten minute presentation that attempts to distill a handful of IxD14 talks down into 30 second snippets then questions what it means when people say design is part art and part science. Special thanks to the legends: Bernard Lahousse, Christina Wodtke, Klaus Krippendorff, Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes, Giles Colborne, Dan Rosenberg, Irene Au, Peter Bil’ak, Antonio de Pasquale, Jason Mesut and Dave Malouf.
"We want it to go viral." The hardest brief when cats aren't the subject matter. Priceless Productions has been able to find the perfect middle ground of cracking briefs for clients and achieve huge organic reach, with massive viral results. See founder Max Price and Account Manager Lily France talk about the science behind the creative and managing expectation.
Visual Style and Aesthetics: Basics of Visual Design
Visual Design for Enterprise Applications
Range of Visual Styles.
Mobile Interfaces:
Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Design
Approach to Mobile Design
Patterns
Technoblade The Legacy of a Minecraft Legend.Techno Merch
Technoblade, born Alex on June 1, 1999, was a legendary Minecraft YouTuber known for his sharp wit and exceptional PvP skills. Starting his channel in 2013, he gained nearly 11 million subscribers. His private battle with metastatic sarcoma ended in June 2022, but his enduring legacy continues to inspire millions.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
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A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
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Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
2. Where Good Ideas Come From?
I don’t know about you, but for me and the work I do, this is a pretty
important question. Perhaps you’ve read Steven Johnson’s book by the
same title, perhaps not. Either way, let me share with you why it’s
important enough for me to be writing this.
Ideas - in all their wonderful shapes and sizes - are the lifeblood of
innovation, and these precious little commodities are also the daily
grind for you and I.
Mr. Johnson has an interesting idea. Looking back over the history of
innovation, he suggests that good ideas emerge out of strikingly similar
environments. In short: high-density, liquid networks of creative
thinkers given both the opportunity and the forum for “spillover” of
ideas.
A primordial soup of creative opportunity.
3. It’s intuitive really. Johnson brings a myriad of examples from nature,
commerce and the sciences, but the one that stuck with me was the
coffee house phenomenon of the early Renaissance period.
Creative thinkers from all walks of life would coalesce around the
coffee shop and, in a caffeine-fueled frenzy, exchange ideas that
invariably led to bigger, better, more diverse creations than anyone
could have imagined.
Of course, Johnson also points out that up until this point, beer and wine had
been the staple drinks of the day, and as such the creative revolution may
have simply been a factor of a long overdue stint of sobriety – but we’ll
ignore that for now.
So what’s my point?
4. Where’s our coffee shop?
Starbucks isn’t cutting it.
Nor is any other coffee shop I’ve been to lately.
Last time I checked, the common scene in these much-loved
establishments was one of the lone-creative-genius, half melting Frap in
hand, Macbook planted firmly in the middle of the table, headphones
resolutely plugged, vehemently repelling any suggestion of conversation
from fellow coffee drinkers.
Hardly the picture of a hungry little carbon molecule just bursting to
connect with some other friendly protein in the aforementioned
primordial soup of creativity (ok, I’ll drop the soup bit now, but it’s just
such a good metaphor).
The trouble is, while we talk a lot about convergence of media,
channels, technologies and the like, we still have more creative
specialties (read “silos”) than ever and we tend to mix in our own
little cliques. We rarely, if ever, get to rub shoulders - let alone grey
matter - with other more diverse creative talent, and we are poorer
for it.
5. “But what about wonderful collaborative innovation networks like
openIDEO?” you might ask. Good point, they are indeed awesome, and
I’m a fully signed-up member.
But here’s the rub. Despite best intentions and a good platform for
inspiring, conceptive ideas, it’s still predominantly individualistic, with
little real development of ideas by the creative community engaged.
People tend to rank and vote, but rarely “build”.
And this brings me to my point...[at last]
6. COPYWRITER NOVELIST ARTIST INT
SPEECH WRITER JOURNALIST TRAV
The Coffee House Reborn PROGRAMMER CORRESPONDENT M
I’m putting together a little club of sorts - a new-age coffee house club
ANIMATOR PHOTOGRAPHER MUSICI
MICRO FINANCIER DOCUMENTARIAN
in fact. In doing so, I’m hoping, to artificially recreate the environment
that proved to be so fruitful over a millennium ago.
I’m inviting friends and friends of friends, all of whom represent great,
old and new, creative disciplines. It’s a diverse bunch for sure, we’ll
INTERIOR DESIGNER ART DIRECTOR
ANTHROPOLOGISTTRAVELER SINGE
have artists, musicians, copy-writers, designers, speech-writers, creative
technologists, architects, documentarians, urban planners, media
strategists, industrial designers…the list goes on.
But we’re not just going to throw everyone in a room and hope for
PUPPETEER SET DESIGNER GRAPHI
DANCER GAME DESIGNER MUSICIAN
some kind of creative spontaneous combustion (although that might
be fun). We’re going to be focused about this and here’s how...
TYPOGRAPHER MUSICIANNGO CON
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER SCREENWRI
URBAN PLANNER SCULPTOR SOUN
CHANGE EXPERT COMMUNICATIONS
7. A Tight Brief
Each time we meet, we’ll focus our efforts on a specific problem. We’ll
experiment with different formats, in the spirit of, well,
experimentation, but we’ll always work towards a goal.
A few examples;
Remember the awesome openIDEO platform I mentioned before?
They have some pretty tight briefs from organizations with real issues
and with real budgets to make it happen – and we’re all for that.
So at one meet, we’ll take their brief, and then flex our combined and
considerable creative muscle against it. We then take the (hopefully)
many ideas we generate from our modest “closed network” of
thinkers and upload them into the bigger “open-network” of
openIDEO. We create the best of both worlds and have a jolly* good
time in the process.
At other meets, we’ll work with slightly loftier, though perhaps more
abstract ideas and see where our wonderings take us. We might look
at ideas to foster greater volunteerism in the arts. We might work on
adult literacy or childhood obesity.
As we gather momentum we’ll let our discussions shape future topics
for collaboration, after all, even a tight brief needs some wriggle room.
Ahem.
* I’m British and so have permission to use the word “jolly”
8. The Format:
Location: “The Local” Sullivan Street, Soho
I figured this should be fun, social and infused with food and drink. That Time: 6.30 for 7pm start. 9.30/10pm Close.
way if we suck, at least we’ll have a full stomach to show for our
efforts. 1. Arrivals: Drinks and hot food for all!
2. Introduction to the event and intros (I’ll share short bios)
And I wanted to be honest to the idea - this originated in the coffee 3. The Briefing and Inspiration
houses of northern italy, so, while a trip to Florence appeals, I’m 4. The Work
settling for the generous offer of “The Local” to open their little 1. Two team breakout
independent coffee shop after hours for our first evening of mis- 2. Each group led by facilitator (me and a friend)
adventures. 3. Each group works on the brief, but with slight modification/constraint* to spur
different lines of exploration
5. Group Share
We’ll have great coffee.
6. Each group shares and we have a discussion to build on the ideas
7. Wrap up
1. Agreed ideas are applauded and we all commit to earnestly review them online
over the next few weeks and build further as we have our shower-epiphanies and
train ride inspirations. I’ll provide logon for the collaboration platform at the
meeting.
8. The Action
1. After a short window of online collaboration, the ideas are curated, polished and (if
and OpenIdeo brief) uploaded into the openIDEO platform under a single user
logon. If it’s a self assigend brief we perhaps upload to a CHC tumblr or even
better, find a way to make it happen
*creative thinking thrives on rules, so things like; “must be sustainable”,
“must be under $1000 build cost”, “must be...” you get the idea.
9. My dream/charter for the results of our little endeavor, in descending
order of likelihood…
• We first and foremost have fun. We get to enjoy the company of
new creative minds and make new friendships and connections in
the process.
• Our ideas are warmly received by the broader community.
• Our ideas become a gold standard for quality creative solutions in
CoffeeHouseCreative
systems like the openIDEO collaboration model.
• Steven Johnson is so overwhelmed by the genius and inferred
compliment he comes to speak and participate in an event.
• We are so successful, IDEO bring the team for a workshop and
integrate the model into the next beta.
• Word gets out and we are obliged to provide starter packs/
templates for the creation of a whole franchise across North
America and ultimately global domination.
• The founder club members (me in particular) become rich and
famous – if you’re already rich and famous, congratulations; some of
us are still working on it. Oh, and the first round of beers are on
you.
I created a logo. It’s a bit rubbish* because I’m a strategist, not a
designer. Perhaps our resident designer will do a better job if we meet
a second time – I am, if nothing else, ever the optimist.
So, are you in?
* yup, still British,