[Sigia-l] We could just use whiteboards instead.

[Marc Rettig]

I'm a big fan of analog media when it comes to collaboration. I take Ziya's
point about the advantages of digital, but I'm sold on the way Big Stuff On The
Walls changes the conversation among the team, the way it leads to new
conversations, the way it helps immerse the team in all the ideas. 

As an illustrated, informal and semi-sappy point comment on this, those of you
who are enough interested in this to put up with a 1.9M download might look at
an old "show-and-tell" I did for one of the Advance for Design summits:
http://www.marcrettig.com/writings/rettig.walls.72dpi.pdf

Somewhere around here I have a little movie of a Vice President of a financial
services firm getting so involved in what was happening on the wall that he
grabbed the marker from one of the team and started drawing his vision of the
connections between user activity and information. This was a *good* thing,
because it was a moment in which our stakeholder had become a passionate
stakeholder. I give large credit for this to the fact that the wall integrated
large and fine-grained info, strategic and tactical views, data fragments and
narrative synthesis. That richness gave us and him a sense of immersion we
couldn't have achieved with say, spreadsheets and diagrams. 

Er, I hope you'll permit me one more link. This is a case study in which
analogness on the wall figured prominently in the success of the design:
http://www.marcrettig.com/writings/DUX_Herzfeldt_Rettig.pdf (713k)


Grins,
Marc Rettig



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