At the VizThink conference in San Francisco I had the opportunity to sit down with three members from Adaptive Path. In the photo below, from left to right are, Henning Fischer, (me), Sarah Nelson, and Brandon Schauer.

The session was highly interactive and very creative. Each person at the table was asked to individually create a process of improving the moving experience; a painful time for anyone who has had to move more than once or twice.

We then took the best idea at the table and illustrated the concept on flip chart paper. Each team was given one minute to present their ideas to everyone in the workshop. The focus of the exercise was to show how much more effective images can be when trying to communicate new ideas.

Some of the illustrations are shown below.

In this Podcast we discuss five elements which “illustrate” why pictures are a powerful way to communicate with multi-disciplinary teams, including:

1. Disambiguation
2. Efficiency
3. Emotion
4. Telling a Story
5. Leadership

Many thanks to Henning, Sarah, and Brandon for joining me at the conference to do this show. As well thank-you to their co-President Peter Merholz for putting me in touch with these brilliant individuals; it was a real treat!

My apologies to TechSmith for saying I met Techads (I did the introduction very early in the morning at the conference.) It was a pleasure meeting Betsy Weber and Tony Dunckel and I look forward to using Camtasia and SnagIt. Be sure and check out their new application, Jing – amazing!