Les Acquis: Semaine 3

Looking back on the last seven days I have to sum up that there definitely weren't enough hours in this week. Apart from Friday evening with Antoine, where we kicked back with some glasses of wine but still discussing Tagcrumbs, it was constant running around, organising group meetings, dedicating every free minute to the company and burning off all the extra energy from staring on screens too much during basketball training.

Therefore, just a quick round-up from an excellent lecture on information and knowledge visualization with Amaury de Buchet (information visualization blogger, innovation consultant and visiting professor) this week. The slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

A good slide showing the effects of the medium with which one acquires knowledge (feet, hands, eyes or ears) on the efficiency of being able to estimate the distance:



This slides tries to explain the importance of design in any innovation process. Instant visualizations of changes to a product and increasingly rapid protoyping (for real world objects) are used to support decision making: