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RUNNING ORDER

• Intro: Who is Dave?
• Dave’s entry into gamestorming and visual thinking
• Having a plan and being willing to toss it when things change
• Practice and experience makes our work look lie magic
• What is gamestorming?
• Open, explore, close — the heart of gamestorming
• Gamestorming principles
• See one, do one, teach one
• Dave’s Gamestorming A-Team
• Dave’s Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

LINKS

• Gamestorming Book
• Gamestorming website
• Gamestormning Group on LinkedIn
• Dave on Twitter
• Dave on Instagram
• Dave on LinkedIn
• Dave’s Email

TOOLS

• Heavyweight 5x8 (A5) index cards
• Heavyweight 11x17 (A3) card stock
• ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape
• Concepts for iPad
• Miro
• The Sketchnote Ideabook
• Yuri Malishenko
• Bill Keaggy
• Sketchnote Army Slack

3 TIPS

• Be bored
• Practice through analysis
• Try new styles

CREDITS

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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