Dec 22, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Design, Productivity, Products, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
In the first part of this series, I explored using agile project milestones for creative endeavors. In this case, we’re using that term to broadly describe projects that need to be planned and tracked, but perhaps aren’t as concrete or knowable as projects that... 
Nov 24, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Portland, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
The other day, I had lunch with a friend of mine, Kevin. Kevin had some bad news and some not-so-bad news to share. His tale demonstrates the value of visual tools — and yet another example of how sticky notes make people productivity rockstars. The bad news was... 
Nov 16, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Design, Portland, Productivity, Project management, Startups, Strategy, Thinking tools, Work
How are people using Cardsmith? We sat down with one particular user this week to find out her story. Ann Sanderson is a planning machine. As a small business owner and political activist, she needs to be able to keep all her projects organized and track their... 
May 27, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Productivity, Strategy, Work
I love using pencils. There’s something about the feel of the graphite on a blank page. The pencil is a constantly changing writing device—both the width of the graphite path that follows, and the length of the pencil as it’s used. Most of the time it... 
Apr 13, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Design, Portland, Startups
A look at some of the small detail and design decisions that have gone into making an intuitive, beautiful user interface (UI) in Cardsmith. And a sneak peek at the UI update coming as part of our preview release in a few weeks. As our team was brainstorming the... 
Mar 26, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Play
How a non-visual thinker is using a visual tool to inspire her writing. I have a confession to make. Well, I have TWO confessions to make. I’m not a visual thinker (gasp!) When I heard about Monica’s vision for Cardsmith, I could easily see how it could be useful for...