Sep 6, 2017 | Party Planning, Play, Portland, Productivity, Project management, Startups, Things we love
I never thought I’d get my partner Joe to use Cardsmith. He has been nothing but supportive of me and the Cardsmith team. He MC’d our launch party, he’s the voice behind the getting started tutorial videos on our website, and he has done QA work for Cardsmith. And... 
Jan 12, 2016 | Portland, Startups, Strategy, Uncategorized, Work
A couple of weeks ago, I discussed using the concept of project milestones in unpredictable creative project like starting a business. This post is a quick follow-up and shout-out to our mentors at TenX in Portland, who have cleverly built a whole program that helps... 
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... 
Sep 21, 2015 | Cardsmith, Portland, Productivity, Project management, Startups, Strategy, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
I’m a fan of a weekly meeting when working with a small team on a creative project that goes for many weeks or months. In a well-functioning team, a well-executed collaborative meeting of no more than one hour sets a kind of cadence that energizes and aligns the... 
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 12, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Play, Portland, Productivity, Startups, Strategy, Things we love, Thinking tools, Work
“My name is Monica Borrell and I love sticky notes.” No, this isn’t a confession of an addiction (while our team may think so sometimes), it’s a proud statement of fact by our founder and CEO. This love of sticky notes actually inspired Monica to create...