The Informed Life

Today I’m joined by my friend MJ Broadbent. As a graphic facilitator and recorder, MJ uses visual thinking to help people communicate more effectively. In this episode, we talk about how drawing can help folks understand each other and make everyday life more joyful.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the-informed-life-episode-16-mj-broadbent.mp3

Show notes

• MJ Broadbent
• MJ Broadbent on Twitter
• MJ Broadbent on Instagram
• MJ Broadbent on Flickr
• MJ Broadbent on LinkedIn
• Mike Rohde
• Sketchnote Army blog
• Rosenfeld Media events
• Enterprise Experience conference
• DesignOps Summit
• Pictionary
• IPEVO document cameras
• Landau Chartworks
• Franklin Planners
• Bullet Journal
•  MJ’s Stanford Continuing Studies course

My guest today is IT consultant and author Jeff Sussna. Jeff’s liberal arts background has given him a unique perspective on digital transformation. In this episode, we explore the relevance of cybernetics to today’s complex design and DevOps challenges.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the-informed-life-episode-15-jeff-sussna.mp3

Show notes

• Sussna Associates
• @jeffsussna on Twitter
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
• Norbert Wiener
• Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman
• Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
• The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener
• Lean startup
• Agile software development
• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems, by Joanna Macy
• Claude Shannon
• The Net of Indra
• Ranulph Glanville
• Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy by Jeff Sussna

My guest today is information architect Lis Hubert. Over the past year, Lis has been living and working around the world as what some folks call a “digital nomad.” In this show, we talk about how she’s using this time to structure her best life.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/episode-14-lis-hubert.mp3

Show notes

• Lis Hubert
• The Lis Experiment blog
• Zoom
• Lis’s YouTube Channel
• Diana Sonis
• The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss
• Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

My guest today is NASA advisor, author, and YouTube videographer Ariel Waldman. Ariel describes what she does as making “massively multiplayer science” — that is, “creating unusual collaborations that infuse serendipity into science and space exploration.” In this episode, we focus on her recent sojourn documenting microscopic life in Antarctica, and how managing information in such a remote, demanding environment calls for self-reliance and thoughtful preparation.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/the-informed-life-episode-13-ariel-waldman.mp3

Show notes

• Ariel Waldman
• NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program
• Science Hack Day
• Ariel’s Spacetime on YouTube
• National Science Foundation Writers and Artists grant
• McMurdo Station
• San Francisco Microscopical Society
• Merritt College Microscopy program
• Adobe Premiere
• Ariel on Patreon

Photo: Silicon Republic via Wikimedia Commons

My guest today is design executive Kim Lenox. Kim is Vice President of Product Design at Zendesk. In her 20+ year career, she’s also led design teams at top global organizations such as LinkedIn and HP. In this episode, we talk about the difference between management and control, leading geographically dispersed teams, and taking handwritten notes on digital devices.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/the-informed-life-episode-12-kim-lenox.mp3

Show notes

• Kim Lenox on LinkedIn
• @UXKim on Twitter
• Zendesk
• Zoom
• Slack
• Google Docs
• WhatsApp
• The Year Without Pants: WordPress and the Future of Work by Scott Berkun
• JIRA
• The Zendesk Suite
• OneNote
• Trello
• GoodNotes
• Notability
• Zendesk Design Blog

My guest today is digital governance advocate Lisa Welchman. For the past twenty years, Lisa has helped organizations manage the flow of their digital information. In this episode, she tells us about how content models and governance frameworks can help organizations manage their information more intentionally and safely.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/episode-11-lisa-welchman.mp3

Show notes

• Lisa Welchman
• Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design, by Lisa Welchman
• Insight Timer
• Scientific Eve

My guest today is information architecture and user experience pioneer Peter Morville. Alongside Lou Rosenfeld, Peter co-authored Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the first of several books Peter has produced that explore how we deal with information. In this conversation, we discuss a more mindful approach to dealing with the information in our lives.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/the-informed-life-episode-10-peter-morville.mp3

Show notes

• Peter Morville
• The University of Michigan’s School of Information
• Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond, by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango
• Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender
• Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
• Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything by Peter Morville
• Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals by Peter Morville
• Trello
• Apple Watch
• Lawrence Lessig
• Muse headband
• semanticstudios.com – Peter’s consultancy
• intertwingled.org – Peter’s blog
• twitter.com/morville

My guest today is Jessica Ivins. Jessica is a user experience designer. She’s also faculty member at Center Centre, the UX design school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she prepares students to be industry-ready UX designers. She wears many hats in this role, and in this episode we talk about how she keeps track of it all.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/episode-9-jessica-ivins.mp3

Show notes

• Center Centre
• David Allen’s Getting Things Done
• Marc Andreessen’s guide to personal productivity
• Google Docs
• Timeboxing
• Parkinson’s Law
• Slack
• Re-work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• OmniFocus
• The Pomodoro technique
• JessicaIvins.net
• Jessica on Medium
• Jessica on Twitter

My guest today is Trip O’Dell. Trip has worked as a product designer for leading technology companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, and Amazon. Before his career in tech, Trip was a teacher, introducing new technologies to students so they could tell stories in new ways. When he was a student himself, Trip was diagnosed with dyslexia, and in this episode we discuss how this allows him to think differently.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/episode-8-trip-odell.mp3

Show notes

• Trip O’Dell
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Mural
• Trello
• Dropbox
• Grammarly
• Google Docs
• Seeing AI
• Dark Matter
• @tripodell on Twitter

My guest today is Donna Lichaw. After a long career that included documentary film-making and tech, Donna discovered her calling: helping people hone the stories they tell about themselves. Now she coaches designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and leaders who want to make a difference. In this episode we talk about how she helps her clients visualize their stories.

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 https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/the-informed-life-episode-7-donna-lichaw.mp3

Show notes

• Donna Lichaw
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Evernote
• Zoom
•  iOS screen sharing with the Zoom desktop client
• Paper app
• Dave Gray
• Christina Wodtke
• IPEVO products
• Donna on Twitter
• Donna on LinkedIn