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Writing Is Hard
Do you ever have a hard time figuring out what to write? Join the club! This week’s blog post looks at last week’s blog post and explores the difficulty of writing a short piece…
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The Comic Guide To ITK
We have a lot of fun telling people about the Innovation Toolkit - in person, in workshops, and in briefings. But we know we can't reach everyone, so we recruited two comic characters to help us out. Janet and Morgan first appeared in a comic Dan wrote for UX...
Toolchains!
In a previous post, we talked about how to get started with ITK. In this post we’re taking it to the next level and sharing some Tool Chains for your consideration. The concept of a tool chain is pretty straightforward. It involves using a series of tools in sequence,...
Remote Facilitation Tips
One of the key benefits of using ITK's tools is to “get people in a room and talking.” But what if your team is not geographically collocated? That can make things difficult. Dialing in remotely to a meeting where wall charts and whiteboards are used but not broadcast...
Scribble, Scrawl, and Sketch
Several tools in the Innovation Toolkit invite users to sketch (i.e. Mind Mapping, Prototyping, System Mapping, Storyboarding, etc.), and that can be a little intimidating for some people. While I feel pretty comfortable throwing squiggles and shapes on a page or...
Assembling Your Workshop Kit!
We got an email recently asking what materials the ITK team brings to their workshops. There’s a lot of work that goes into planning and prepping for workshops and most of the time, materials are the very last thing we address. After a few workshops of lugging around...
The Worst That Can Happen… Is Cake
No one likes to fail, but it happens to everyone at some point and it’s almost never fun. Dealing with failure is something that I have personally struggled with throughout my life. Early on, my parents instilled a drive to succeed in all of my academic...