So it seems it is broadly true, young people really are more open and older ones more set in their ways, according to a fascinating article in the Scientific American. Studies of personality development often focus on traits such as extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to new experiences. MORE >>

While there are amazing things happening throughout the visual thinking community, some of the most interesting are happening at our sponsors, not the least of which is happening at Tableau.  Late last week, we sat down with their Director of Visual Analisys, Jock Mackinlay, to discuss his work and research.  Analyzing data visually. MORE >>

This is likely my last post in the Tool Set series. This post likely will be quite a bit different because I'm convinced that most people have used different search tools enough that they are pretty comfortable with their current search behaviors. This is by no means comprehensive and I welcome suggestions. Search. Obviously, we do this a lot. MORE >>

This is the first in a series of posts on some broken areas of ID that I will be posting on Mondays.  The intention is to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. The point is not to say ‘bad designer’, but instead to point out how to do better design. How does a designer do that?  MORE >>

Once again I have come across how it’s more important to cultivate conditions for knowledge creation and sharing over trying to manage knowledge or capture it a week before it walks out the door. They both allude to a similar thing, but the actions of the second statement lead to fulfilling the first statement, and more.&#. MORE >>