Reblogged from Chrysanthemum Communications: Ever sit in a meeting fidgeting, thinking “what a waste of time”? (Ever breathe?) Without a doubt, we can be better at running them. But what about being a better participant — contributing more value, engaging more effectively with colleagues and partners? The thought occurred to me after I raced out of […]
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Visualization hitting the mainstream?
April 14, 2011 
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Related on the web: Visualizing change: http://www.gapminder.org/ Idiagram.com >> understandingusa.com >> dynamicdiagrams.com >> Center for Graphic Facilitation >>
Read moreEcolanguage
May 24, 2007 0 Comments
From Ecolanguage: “Ecolanguage is an animated graphic language to show a standard way to combine economics and ecology in the same image. Lee A. Arnold has put up a baker’s dozen of Ecolanguage videos on YouTube. The “channel” page with the whole list is here:” http://youtube.com/leearnold ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, […]
Read moreUser interface based on chaos and emergence concepts
May 16, 2007 0 Comments
I found this interesting Flash interface based on a concept of chaos, static order and emergent dynamic order. Skinned over the concept of a type of emergence between chaos and order. the words used there are science and culture. Visit the site and check out the interface. It’s worth a look >> Related rant: In […]
Read moreMapping the entire web
April 3, 2007 0 Comments
OPTE Map of the entire web (2005) This is what the web looked like in 2005. You can download software at the OPTE website to map the web today. They also have larger maps of the web from different years. Source: OPTE Project: http://www.opte.org/maps/ ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience […]
Read moreVisual Complexity, postmodern interfaces and multinformation
March 30, 2007 0 Comments
“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate […]
Read moreCognitive Science, Communication, Complexity, Design, Human Factors, Human-computer interaction, Information architecture, Information communication, Information visualization, Innovation, Multinformation, Multispectives, Netsci, Network science, Simplexity, Systems Theory, Systems thinking, Visual communication
Graphing Change
March 30, 2007 0 Comments
Gapminder has an interesting example of a graph depicting change over time. If you have the time and the bandwidth I highly recommend taking a look at the video presentation where you can see how a similar graph was used in a presentation to depict change in developing countries. http://www.gapminder.org/ ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: […]
Read moreVisualizing a Swarm
March 30, 2007 0 Comments
Visit Digg’s “Swarm”>> ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Read moreAlgorithmic Beauty?
March 20, 2007 0 Comments
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder and but can it also be a mathematical pattern? Whether you agree with the proposal behind this technology or not it is interesting to understand that some concepts of beauty may be interpreted as mathematical algorithms. Source http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification/
Read moreBeyond Maslow’s hierarchy of (individual) needs
March 2, 2007 0 Comments
This diagram tries to show cycles of attention, from the individual to the macro-systems in which the individual exists. This diagram is a suggestion and it may be drawn differently in societies that are group-centered rather than individual-centered. The same idea applies to those groups that are family-centered or couple-centered. An individual and a society […]
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