Visual Thinking | Sunni Brown

VizThink Austin with Boy Genius Austin Kleon

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking, VizThink Austin

On Feb. 3rd, I held another VizThink Austin community meeting for our ever-growing group of visual thinkers and visual learners. The rare and brilliant bird Austin Kleon hosted, taking the group on a comedic and informative journey about visual thinking for writers. A powerful topic considering that few people are aware of the symbiotic relationship [...]

Why Knowledge Games Work

Monday, December 7th, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Visual Thinking

The way humans gain the lion’s share of what we know is through a slow process of gathering informational knowledge – accumulated layers of additive information based on years of exposure and experience. For example, my knowledge of Spanish is informational knowledge. I learned it through years of listening to Spanish speakers and eventually formalized it [...]

Temporary Cover for Knowledge Games!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Nothing like seeing a prospective cover for your book makes you feel inclined to start churning chapters out! (I hope it’s having the same effect on my co-authors.) Ladies and gentleman, I’m thrilled to show you for the first time the cover for the magnum opus that Dave Gray, James Macanufo and I have been [...]

Tweetnotes for HP’s People

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 - Filed under Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking

A most interesting project came through Somnio, an Austin-based sales and marketing company that was hired by HP to support a sales training. Somnio specializes in unique sales and marketing solutions, so their idea was that BrightSpot create twitpics – pictures that could be periodically tweeted to the participants of a sales training to (1) [...]

Knowledge Game: Show and Tell for Grown-ups

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Visual Thinking

Dave Gray, James Macanufo and I are working on a book with O’Reilly, Inc. and I’ve decided to blog about some of the content as I create it. So what you see above is a graphic archive from a visual-thinking version of Show and Tell. Most people think Show and Tell is for kids but [...]

Zappos – Key Books Class

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

As the world largely knows by now, there are many great things about Zappos. But what most people don’t realize is the extent to which that quest for greatness permeates their DNA. Some C-level folks talk a good game about customer and employee happiness, but Tony Hsieh (CEO) can credibly say that he’s obsessed with [...]

Congregation Beth Israel’s Strategy Summit

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Congregation Beth Israel is a synagogue that follows Reform Judaic traditions and it’s one of the oldest Jewish places to worship in Austin – founded in 1876. (In case you’re thinking this: “Texas doesn’t have a Jewish population”, just know that I’m thinking this: “Be gone with your stereotypes!”) CBI has a very active Board [...]

The Look for the Book

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Visual Thinking

So I’m co-authoring a book with Dave Gray and James Macanufo (its personality and purpose are under wraps right now). But I’ve been working on the aesthetics of the visuals all day, trying to establish a look that’s accessible, and so far all I’ve accomplished is a temporary loss of mojo. This is largely due [...]

BrightSpot and some Awesome Folks Featured in Associations Now

Friday, July 31st, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Visual Thinking

As I suspected, the tide toward visual thinking appears to be continually rising. Read the article featuring some of my favorite visual thinkers - Jess Bachman, Mike Rohde, Ryan Coleman and yours truly. (But I’m not saying I’m among my favorite visual thinkers. It’s just awkward. You know, that sentence construct. Um.) Just go read the [...]

VizThink and the City of Austin

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 - Filed under Visual Thinking

My deep thought for the day: What is the trade-off between a constructed and guided group process and a less-structured and improvisational group process? Why, you are wondering, do I ask? Because we held our 7th Vizthink Austin session last night and I came out of it seriously disoriented. Honoria Starbuck and I specifically designed [...]

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