Monthly Archives: May 2009

Visual Thinking and Note-taking

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 – 2:33 PM

Yesterday, I attended an online webinar put on by VizThinkU entitled Visual Note-taking 101. The speakers/sketchers were a wonderfully talented bunch including Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown and Mike Rohde and moderated by Dave Gray (XPLANE). The format was informal and took us through a variety of techniques around visual thinking over a joyous 3-hours. Check [...]

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H Pack: Plans of Steel

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 – 4:32 PM

Funny title, I know. But sometimes you have to choose a funny name to make waves. Let me tell you about a little internal project that has changed the way we work together, in delightful ways.
The Project
A while back, I told you about our experiments in agile design, how we were applying agile methodologies in [...]

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Movie Review: Objectified

Sunday, May 10, 2009 – 5:22 PM

Last week a few us at Habanero went to see Objectified, which is a film about designing objects as well as the people and process behind them. The director, Gary Hustwit, was at the screening at the Rio Theatre to introduce the film and to answer questions after. I think it’s great to see the [...]

By Jasvir | Posted in Design, User Experience, Vancouver | Comments (0)

Saying Woah

Thursday, May 7, 2009 – 4:53 PM

I don’t know about you, but I get awfully busy sometimes. Work projects, teaching, personal time, sometimes I over-extend myself and I am left feeling that the most important things to me get dropped so that I can keep up on my promises.
I recently read an article in Yoga Journal about practicing aparigraha (greedlessness) [...]

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