Innowiz Project

Wallwisher

2011-07-08T11:34:00.002+02:00

digital idea wall.
doesn't mean that the physical one should be thrown overboard though!

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Dipity

2011-07-08T11:20:00.003+02:00

great for creating timelines.
in problemdefinition to get a clear view on the habits, handlings of the user ...
in idea communication this could work f.i. as an easy scenario builder

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creaza

2011-07-08T10:22:00.003+02:00

Creaza: a great tool to quickly visualise 'a day in the life', a scenario of the concept in action and so on.

registration is free but necessary

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betterproductdesign.net tools&techniques

2011-05-25T12:13:00.003+02:00

"This site is being developed as a resource for the Good Design Practice program, a joint initiative between the Institute for Manufacturing and the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, and the Royal College of Art Industrial Design Engineering group. The program aims to provide support to companies in developing and improving their product design capability as part of the new product introduction process.

The site is intended for anyone involved in the design, development or management of new products and will contain information, tools, resources and details of events."

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Historywatching

2011-03-07T14:19:00.002+01:00

What historical future predictions can teach us now.

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Gamestorming

2010-12-15T11:49:00.001+01:00

"Think back to the last time you played a game. What was the game? Why did you choose to play? Was it a simple game like tic-tac-toe, or something more complex, like Monopoly, Scrabble or Chess? Or maybe it was a game of basketball? Did you play with friends? With family? Try to recapture the feeling you had as you played the game. How did it feel? Would you like to have more of that feeling at work?

Games come naturally to human beings. Playing a game is a way of exploring the world, a form of structured play, a natural learning activity that’s deeply tied to growth. Games can be fun and entertaining, but games can have practical benefits too.

This blog is about games designed to help you get more innovative, creative results in your work."

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WikiT: The mind mapping wiki

2010-12-03T15:53:00.005+01:00

"Something that occupies our thinking a lot is taming all the information that hits our PCs and desks every day. Maybe you find this a problem as well, and that's why you arrived at this website.

Information comes at us from all directions: Documents from colleagues, websites, web articles, social networking reference, emails, instant messages, passwords and other access tokens, magazine articles, news clippings, spreadsheets, presentations and diagrams. A lot of this we want to read later, amend, add to or keep for reference. If it is useful for our work, hobbies and family life, we need to keep it, and be able to find it.

Who hasn't felt overwhelmed by the increasing gush pouring out of the information pipes to which most of us are connected? "

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creative (online) process + different profiles per stage

2010-08-24T10:54:00.004+02:00

"I found this to be an interesting exercise when thinking about the impact and influence we have on the web, and how information travels. For instance, when you RT something on Twitter, you’re fulfilling a “Propagator” function, when you’re introducing people or bridging information you’re a “Connector,” when you’re developing a new theory or model or practice, you are a “Pathfinder,” and so on. It’s a different way of thinking about our relationship with information – one that puts more control in the hands of the user verses just drowning in “information overload.” It’s also an interesting way to think about who to send information to when trying to plant seeds of information and spread ideas."
(Venessa Miemis)

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Guidelines for group collaboration & emergence

2010-08-19T16:12:00.002+02:00

"Collaboration is an act of shared creation or discovery. (schrage89)

As a distributed group of individuals (agents) within a network, we form a complex adaptive system. The key to our success is in creating the environment where emergent, innovative results can occur."
(Vanessa Miemis)

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User centered design

2010-06-07T15:25:00.003+02:00

"The central premise of user centred design is that the best designed products and services result from understanding the needs of the people who will use them"

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Creative Stars

2010-06-04T12:42:00.002+02:00

"The idea is to collect websites for industrial designers who are in the beginning of their design process (Information phase and Exploration phase). The most useful websites are displayed on the homepage to ensure a quick navigation"

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The Ideas Compass

2010-06-01T14:46:00.002+02:00

"The Ideas Compass is the place where small and medium-sized companies can find inspiration to innovate and evolve. The focus of this website is on CSR-driven innovation – an innovation process focusing on current social and environmental needs which gives companies an opportunity to develop sustainable products or services."

"CSI (Corporate Social Innovation) is also called sustainable innovation. CSI is about creating a good business by having sustainability as a focal point when the corporation develops a new product or service.

This entails developing products or services which may relieve some of the world's problems, such as disease, contaminated water, CO2 emission, hunger or the lack of education.

CSI is also referred to as CSR innovation. CSI is useful for businesses which work with innovation and/or CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)."

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mindmeister

2010-05-12T15:31:00.001+02:00

"Real-time Brainstorming

Werk tegelijk met vrienden en collega´s aan mappen en zie de veranderingen terwijl ze worden uitgevoerd"

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templates, templates, lots of templates

2010-05-12T15:24:00.005+02:00

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Idée labs

2010-05-12T14:54:00.005+02:00

"Piximilar searches through large image collections, without keywords or metadata, to instantly retrieve visually similar images.

Users can search for images by:

* selecting an existing image in your collection to retrieve similar images
* uploading their own image to retrieve visually similar images from your collection
* selecting multiple colours from a simple palette or an advanced colour wheel to retrieve images containing the same colours

Piximilar can be used in combination with keywords to refine searches on extremely large collections."

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Tagul

2010-05-12T14:47:00.001+02:00

"Tagul is different

Wordle was designed to be just a toy. Wordle clouds cannot be used as in the way tag clouds are usually used, like being embedded on a web page and serving as navigation units. That leaves the niche that Tagul is intended to fulfil. Tagul clouds are not toys and designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. "

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Screenjelly

2010-05-12T14:08:00.005+02:00

"Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email.

Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.

To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything!"

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other similar tool:
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STIXY moodboarding tool

2010-05-12T14:05:00.001+02:00

"Think of Stixy as your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share:

* Your family’s schedule
* Projects at work
* An upcoming holiday with your friends
* Your photos from your last bike trip
* Or share a file or two with a friend or colleague"

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Twiddla notation tool

2010-05-12T13:52:00.002+02:00

"Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly."

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newsletter material stories

2010-04-29T15:35:00.002+02:00

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// The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9

2010-03-17T11:58:00.003+01:00

"Design can be used to influence users’ behaviour.

From the layout of shopping malls to digital rights management, our everyday lives are full of examples of products, systems and environments which have been designed to shape, guide or control – influence – our behaviour, using a wide range of techniques: technological, physical or psychological.

Intended commercial benefit is a major reason behind this; intended social benefit can be too (though it’s often fraught with politics). Sometimes the behaviour-shaping is helpful to the user; sometimes it’s serving someone else against the user’s best interests. Sometimes it’s trying to get the user to do something; sometimes it’s trying to stop the user doing something.

The common factor to all of this is intent on the part of the designer/engineer/planner or his or her corporate/political masters. This is Design with Intent: strategic design that’s intended to influence or result in certain user behaviour."

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update innowiz.be

2009-12-15T16:12:00.001+01:00

www.innowiz.be was updated!
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Googla image swirl

2009-12-15T16:05:00.001+01:00

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

2009-12-03T16:29:00.003+01:00

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

2009-12-01T10:08:00.001+01:00

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

2009-10-23T10:08:00.001+02:00

"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

2009-10-22T10:48:00.000+02:00

"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

2009-10-13T15:34:00.005+02:00

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!"

[powered by visual thesaurus]
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SPEZIFY

2009-10-06T14:13:00.002+02:00

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

2009-09-29T13:36:00.001+02:00

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A Model of The Creative Process

2009-09-15T10:52:00.001+02:00

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

2009-08-25T11:17:00.004+02:00

Everyday a new idea!

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The Idea Generator

2009-08-21T13:48:00.006+02:00

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

2009-08-19T11:18:00.001+02:00

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

2009-06-05T17:02:00.002+02:00

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infographic

2009-06-03T10:50:00.000+02:00

Awesome resource for infographics.

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Board of innovation

2009-06-02T11:33:00.005+02:00

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

2009-05-13T16:21:00.003+02:00

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37 ways voor dienstinnovatie by Marc Heleven

2009-04-30T15:53:00.001+02:00

37 Ways Diensteninnovatie

View more presentations from Marc Heleven.

future scenario thinking

2009-02-24T15:48:00.004+01:00

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? ...

via idealize

What is information?

2009-02-17T14:41:00.004+01:00

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

2009-02-03T15:22:00.004+01:00

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

2009-02-03T13:21:00.007+01:00

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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via Dubberly Design Office

Tom Kelley speaks about VujaDe

2009-01-29T12:02:00.005+01:00

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

2009-01-26T09:35:00.004+01:00

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

2009-01-22T11:04:00.004+01:00

“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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via changethis

HOW TO BE CREATIVE - HUGH MACLEOD

2009-01-22T09:58:00.004+01:00

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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via changethis

Nothing is Original - Jim Jarmusch

2009-01-21T13:57:00.002+01:00

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.”

Innowiz Project

Wallwisher

Dipity

creaza

betterproductdesign.net tools&techniques

Historywatching

Gamestorming

WikiT: The mind mapping wiki

creative (online) process + different profiles per stage

Guidelines for group collaboration & emergence

User centered design

Creative Stars

The Ideas Compass

mindmeister

templates, templates, lots of templates

Idée labs

Tagul

Screenjelly

STIXY moodboarding tool

Twiddla notation tool

newsletter material stories

// The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9

update innowiz.be

Googla image swirl

Kuler

Making the World's Knowledge Computable

Levels of Sketching

Springwise: ideas by industry

Vocagrabber

SPEZIFY

user experience treasure map

A Model of The Creative Process

IDEA A DAY

The Idea Generator

Enquiring minds

RESONANCE

infographic

Board of innovation

Process Map

37 ways voor dienstinnovatie by Marc Heleven

future scenario thinking

What is information?

Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

How do you design? a compendium of models

Tom Kelley speaks about VujaDe

Prezi presentation tool

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

HOW TO BE CREATIVE - HUGH MACLEOD

Nothing is Original - Jim Jarmusch

WEBI - OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

EXPLORATREE - THINKING GUIDES

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation

www.innowiz.be

MBTI INFOGRAPHIC MOVIE

PROJECT MÜ

the Design & Emotion society

CREATIVE JUICES

Ask Nature

BRAND MAPPING TOOL - BRANDZEAL

MADE TO STICK - CHIP & DAN HEATH

The most important piece of software for an Industrial Designer

BEEDOCS: CREATE TIMELINE CHARTS

IDEO METHOD CARDS

WAITLESS

Interactive TRIZ Matrix & 40 Principles

MOODSTREAM - GETTY IMAGES

What does design thinking feel like?

GOOGLE SKETCHUP

RESCUE TIME

Interview Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education

Aviary - Creative Applications

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS

STICKY NOTE EXPERIMENT - EEPYBIRD

ffffound - image bookmarking

SEE THE WORDS

DESIGN INSITE - TU DENMARK

DINBELG

IDEMAT - TU DELFT

Designing with your users

Human Centered Design