Sunni Brown

SXSW Interactive 2013: Our Partnership with 3M Post-it Note Pandemonium

Monday, March 25th, 2013 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Visual Thinking

2013 was our our team’s sixth year to bring large-scale doodle action to SXSW Interactive. And who, pray tell, would be a better partner than 3M, the makers of the globally beloved Post-it Note? Our team of four artists and graphic facilitators was selected by Ultra Creative  to support the Post-It Note project aptly branded “Fill [...]

Purina: Gamestorming Gourmet for Ms. Kitty

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation

See all of the event photos on flickr.com Purina is a well-established brand (you know you remember those Fancy Feast commercials) and they’re also ever-the-innovator when it comes to pet food. The Purina team invited our team to immerse ourselves in the current fancy-feline-food culture by researching and then touring tasteries in St. Louis, MO. [...]

Show me HOW: Gamestorming at the HOW Design Conference, Boston 2012

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Visual Thinking

view the event pictures on flickr.com At some point in their careers, most designers end up–at least once–at the HOW Conference. This time the respected swirl of design thinkers and font nerds was held in Boston, home of some baseball team people get very excited about called the Red Sox. (Please, Bambino, don’t curse me.) [...]

Wall Street Journal: Doodling for Dollars

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

Rachel Emma Silverman, the reporter who interviewed me and several of my visual-thinking colleagues for her article in the Wall Street Journal, totally gets the Doodle. Her description of what companies are doing to elevate visual thinking accurately reflects the crazy uptick in the market trying to understand its applications. It will be a long [...]

Why the Doodle Matters

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Infographics, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

From .net magazine, my article “Why the Doodle Matters.” You can read it on the .net website or download a PDF version of the article.

What We Learn from Doodles

Monday, September 5th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Explanatory Videos, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Infographics, Lights in the People Tunnel, Listening, PowerPoints, Product Explanations, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking, VizThink Austin

This article is from CNN.com Editor’s note: Editor’s note: Sunni Brown owns an information design firm and is a speaker and co-author of “GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers.” She was recently named on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business List and on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list. She spoke at [...]

Sneak Peek into Gamestorming Workshop at Duarte Design

Sunday, June 26th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, PowerPoints

Many of you know that Dave Gray and I are hosting a Gamestorming workshop at Duarte Design in July of this year. But did you also know you can get a sneak peek into the content? I spent about about 45 hours designing the curriculum and about 15 hours designing the slides to accompany it. [...]

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

**OUR FIRST PUBLIC GAMESTORMING WORKSHOP… …is being generously hosted by Duarte Design on July 22, 2011 in Mountain View, CA, and we want to see your shiny faces there. For those of you who prefer moving pictures, click here to watch a video designed by XPLANE that describes the story and practice of Gamestorming. Or, [...]

Playing with Sharp Objects: Gamestorming with Razorfish

Sunday, April 24th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

Naturally, when I describe the process of Gamestorming, it immediately begs the question: But what does it LOOK LIKE? It is visual thinking, after all. These images are of a recent graphically-facilitated session with combo client Razorfish and AT&T. It was a small group of 15 power-thinkers and it lasted two days with FANTASTIC results. [...]

UX London 2011 – Gamestorming Workshops and High Tea

Monday, April 18th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, PowerPoints, Visual Thinking

Because, oddly, I had never been to London, Andy Budd of Clearleft took pity on me and invited me to host a workshop at UX London 2011. (He swears it’s due to my content but I think he thought I needed a spot of tea.) So I must applaud his prescience – the Gamestorming workshop [...]