http://www.andymangold.com/a-word-is-worth-1000-pictures-the-importance-of-words-in-brainstorming/ Designer, Thinker & Craftsman Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:10:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.andymangold.com/a-word-is-worth-1000-pictures-the-importance-of-words-in-brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-2364 CrowdstormsDev » What on earth is Crowdstorms? Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:08:40 +0000 http://www.andymangold.com/?p=977#comment-2364 [...] At a broad level, its still very much evolving as an idea mostly between myself and my friend while we search for ways to properly portray the core idea and concept behind the product. We can’t possibly take all the credit though, as my thesis advisor (yes, I’m using this as my honors thesis) Dr. Irene Petrick and PhD student Lee Erickson have been providing insight and resources as we refine the concept. Over the course of the past few months Andy and I have determined some details, but much of it needs hours of more work put into extending our basic ethos. It will most certainly be a website, but we’ve been thinking of it more as a platform. Something to function as a base for both the growth of Crowdstorms and for others’ projects as they are inspired by the content portrayed on the platform. The content on this platform will be entirely words. Andy does an amazing job explaining why this is important here. [...] [...] At a broad level, its still very much evolving as an idea mostly between myself and my friend while we search for ways to properly portray the core idea and concept behind the product. We can’t possibly take all the credit though, as my thesis advisor (yes, I’m using this as my honors thesis) Dr. Irene Petrick and PhD student Lee Erickson have been providing insight and resources as we refine the concept. Over the course of the past few months Andy and I have determined some details, but much of it needs hours of more work put into extending our basic ethos. It will most certainly be a website, but we’ve been thinking of it more as a platform. Something to function as a base for both the growth of Crowdstorms and for others’ projects as they are inspired by the content portrayed on the platform. The content on this platform will be entirely words. Andy does an amazing job explaining why this is important here. [...]

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