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Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking
Click a thumbnail for a larger view. Click here to view them on Flickr. Being part of any TED event, whether as a speaker, facilitator or visualizer, has been like joining a family. A big, raucous, good-samaritan, wildly creative family. I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of being involved in various TED events, my first [...]
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, [...]
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Comics and Sketches, Explanatory Videos, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking
To my pleasant (and slightly confused) surprise, Fast Company chose me as one of the folks on their 100 Most Creative People in Business List for 2011. (I came in at #56, so take that, Ryan Seacrest!) In seriousness, I was pleased to be acknowledged as a “Creative,” since it’s a title I haven’t embraced [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking
What happens when a city fails? How can we make use of the wisdom of the crowd? How are slums using technology to change their worlds? These were the types of questions on the table at The Rockefeller Foundation‘s recent event “The Crowdsourced City (#crowdsourcedcities).” A small group of insightful thinkers (one that unexpectedly included [...]
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Lights in the People Tunnel, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking
My experience as the Resident Doodle Expert at Sharpie, and the subsequent media tour it required, eventually led Margaret Webb-Pressler of the Washington Post to my telephone. She wanted to do a feature on doodling in the Kids Post and thought (probably because I myself am quite a child) that my work would be a [...]
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking
I refreshed my union history during the latest Gamestorming session right down the street from the White House. Working with Union Privilege, a program of the AFL-CIO, together we used visual thinking and game techniques to devise their master plan for shifting from good to great. I invented one game that actually wasn’t in the [...]
Friday, November 19th, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, PowerPoints, Visual Thinking
I had a surprise client turn into a favorite client recently, namely ViaTech Global Publishing. Kurt Heusner, the CMO, tracked me down like many of my clients – through the semantic web – and together we planned a really successful session for 75 of their top team members. I met with Kurt before Gamestorming was published [...]
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking
Sunni Brown at Duarte from Duarte Design on Vimeo. Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design, is rapidly becoming one of my heroes. She’s not only intelligent, beautiful and driven, but she also has a humility and heart of gold you don’t see often in people at her level. Her firm designs presentations for people who [...]
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Sunni is known for her best-selling book, Gamestorming, and her live, large-scale content visualizations. But she's also the Leader of the Doodle Revolution, working to get words and pictures back together. Read more...
"When we hire Sunni for a project, she owns the project and adds strategic, creative and process value every step along the way. Her smart wit keeps everyone entertained and on track. We *heart* Sunni." - Nancy Duarte, Founder, Duarte Design and Author of Slide:ology
"Sunni Brown is just a natural - a natural visual thinker, a natural presenter, and a natural and endlessly curious learner and teacher. She's inspiring and smart, and my experiences with her have been a real pleasure." - Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman of XPLANE
