Yellow Arrow is fundamentally a new way of exploring cities. A harbinger of the "geospatial web," Yellow Arrow began in 2004 as a street art project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Since then, Yellow Arrow has grown to over 35 countries and 380 cities globally and become a way to experience and publish ideas and stories via text messaging on your mobile phone and interactive maps online.
Bil Moggridge, holding a keynote at the danish CIID conference Service Design Symposium emphasizes that:
”But when you put all these things together, with elements from architecture, physical design, electronic technology from software, how do you actually prototype and idea for a service, and it seems that really, it’s about storytelling, it’s about narrative.”
Das Social Web ist die neue Heimat der Geschichtenerzähler und 2011 wird ihr Jahr | Teil 1
Do you need a business-related story for an upcoming presentation? Click on the topic and read through the post to find one or more stories to tell.
A Knowledge Sharing site where we explore the mysteries of organizational storytelling and linguistic sensemaking together.
Investigations on Digital Storytelling: The Development of a Reference Model [Taschenbuch]
12 Filme zum verschiedenen Aspekten des Storytelling. Interviews von Kurt Reinhard
A google map, just with texts, no streets or buildings
Pin your history to the world - crowdsourcing project: people upload their historical images and stories to a map
Data visualization is a pretty literal term that means, quite simply, the visual representation of quantitative data. In this course we’ll learn common techniques for visualizing data, as well as some strategies for managing information digitally. But first, a brief history.
Mit Hilfe neuester Smartphone-Technik werden Science-Fiction-Visionen wahr: Auf dem Display entstehen Mischformen aus Realität und Pixelwelten. Faszinierendes Beispiel ist das Programm eines deutschen Mathematikers, das die Berliner Mauer täuschend echt wiederaufbaut.
Links to Interdisciplinary Storytelling Resources
Links about Journaling, Memoir-Writing, and Personal Storytelling
Welcome to 48 Hour Magazine, a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media's old limits. As the name suggests, we're going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.
penguin's first ideas for the iPad
Tribute to iD Software ("Doom"): ein Album in Flic
As I kept listening I began to realize that design in all its different flavors; print, interactive, application, environmental, industrial, fashion, automotive…everything we’re trying to accomplish revolves around telling great stories, stories that connect and engage a user in a way that is meaningful and lasting to them. So “The Art of Storytelling” was born. An engaging look at, not only the anatomy of what makes a great story but how it relates to the practice and principles of Experience Design.
Concluding this two-part article, we hear from creative professionals who are leading the way in this relatively new world of combining the craft of storytelling with user experience. We’ll also see how storytelling can be applied to more than just interactive experiences: we find it in everything from packaging to architecture.
Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki.