19th
July
2006
“We brought Khoi Vinh and Jeffrey Veen together to talk about the differences between working at your own firm vs. working in-house for a big company. During the chat, Khoi and Jeffrey discussed how they give design a voice at the decision-making table, client work vs. internal work, why designers are engineers, Hill Street Blues, and more.”
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19th
July
2006
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a pictogram is worth so much more… A good BoND [Back of the Napkin Diagram] can also assist with employee recruitment, team alignment, sales and technology build outs. The vocal [Rick] Segal comments, that ‘As the prospective client, employee, or VC engages, both parties can use the drawing as a central reference point. It’s a very useful tool that is often overlooked in favour of mountains of text laden painful power point slides.’ In fact, BoNDs can be used throughout the business, according to the Grandfather of business visualizations, Dave Gray, Founder and CEO of XPLANE (the business visualization company behind the powerful BoNDs you see in Business 2.0 magazine).”
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