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Googla image swirl

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

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Kuler

Explore, create and share color themes

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

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Making the World's Knowledge Computable

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

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Levels of Sketching

"Take this for example, you’re in a restaurant on a lunch break and something comes to mind. You quickly jot it down on a scraggly napkin so that you don’t forget the idea. That sketch too has its purpose. Although it could be the killer idea of a lifetime, the communication may be lacking from you to the client and may be more of a self communication tool."


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Springwise: ideas by industry

"Springwise and its network of 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas, delivering instant inspiration to entrepreneurial minds."

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Vocagrabber

How does Vocabgrabber work?
"VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action.
Want to try it out? Click on one of our sample texts to fill the box and start grabbing!"

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SPEZIFY

Spezify is founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson who have over 10 years experience within the creative digital industry.

A beta was released late April 2009 and the first official version went online on the 15th of June.

Inspired search

"Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.

We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.

We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.

We collect websites and are aiming to use as many relevant, free and open API:s as possible to generate extensive and diverse search results."

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user experience treasure map

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A Model of The Creative Process

The creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small”—in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance. Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself. Many engineers define the design process as a recursive function:
discover > define > design > develop > deploy

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IDEA A DAY

Everyday a new idea!

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The Idea Generator

This is a thesis of Ken Hudson, who has a PhD in organisational creativity. His thesis explored the notion of 'designing a continously creative organisation'. Ken describes some tools for problem solving, creating new opportunities, improving your performance. These can help your business grow.

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Enquiring minds

The Enquiring Minds 'enquiry cycle' is an approach to planning and carrying out any sort of enquiry-based activity. This enquiry model can be used by teachers and students to help visualise progress on any extended activity.

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RESONANCE

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infographic

Awesome resource for infographics.

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Board of innovation

Business & revenue model examples

"The most successful innovations are not on product or service level, but in rethinking your business model. This database captures existing and innovative business models from across the globe and across industries. Zopa, Skype, free newspapers, YouTube, RadioHead… successful new concepts are visually mapped with generic building blocks to make them easily understandable (read more: How to build any business model with only 10 blocks). Our aim is to identify the underlying innovation in the business system, and make it transferable to other industries. You can browse through our growing database, identify new monetization strategies, comment, submit new ventures for review…"



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Process Map

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37 ways voor dienstinnovatie by Marc Heleven

37 Ways Diensteninnovatie

View more presentations from Marc Heleven.

future scenario thinking

HOE ZIET MOBILITEIT ER IN 2088 UIT?
Het ligt nog ver voor ons, maar een aantal deskundigen durven al te speculeren over hoe personenvervoer er in 2088 uit zal zien. Gaan we zwaartekracht overwinnen of zelfs teleporteren? ...

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What is information?

A very neat and original animated infographic film about the concept of information. It was created by Maya Design, a design consultancy and technology research lab. Although most of us think we know what we mean when we say "information," the movie claims we sometimes confuse the medium with the message.

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Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).

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How do you design? a compendium of models

A range of easy-to-understand-Innowiz-like design process representations to very complex process models

"Everyone designs. The teacher arranging desks for a discussion. The entrepreneur planning a business. The team building a rocket.
Their results differ. So do their goals. So do the scales of their projects and the media they use. Even their actions appear quite different. What’s similar is that they are designing. What’s similar are the processes they follow."

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Tom Kelley speaks about VujaDe

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust

If you watch the world around you with fresh eyes, you will find innovation opportunities.
Once you start asking the right Vuja De questions, you will find that the answers can lead to opportunities for your business.

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Prezi presentation tool

With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.

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The 10 1/2 Commandments of Visual Thinking - DAN ROAM

“Visual thinking is the future of business problem solving. Using our innate ability to see—both with our eyes and our mind’s eye—gives us entirely new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively, and then share those ideas with other people in a way they are simply going to ‘get.’” Dan Roam

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HOW TO BE CREATIVE - HUGH MACLEOD

MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

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Nothing is Original - Jim Jarmusch

This is the fifth rule of Jim Jarmusch, an independent film director, his golden rules:

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”

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WEBI - OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

"Open-source software", "Software Libre", "Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS)", and "Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)" are the most common alternative terms.

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EXPLORATREE - THINKING GUIDES

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

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The European Year of Creativity and Innovation

"Creativity is often associated solely with artists and fine arts, whereas innovation is often thought to be about technological progress in manufacturing only. The European Year of Creativity and Innovation allows us to look at these concepts from different angles," reflected European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for Enterprise and Industry policy.

"The challenges that Europe and other parts of the world are facing today are tremendous - climate change, poverty, globalisation and the current economic slowdown, just to mention a few. Tackling these complex challenges will require new knowledge as well as new approaches to combining existing knowledge and finding holistic solutions," he added.

"The European Year of Creativity and Innovation will influence the policy debate and encourage co-operation between policy-makers and enterprises on how to harness the creative potential of humans for economic and societal purposes,"

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