Changing the World, One Innovation at a Time

The Global Innovation Exchange was officially launched at last week’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 in Silicon Valley, CA. The Global Innovation Exchange is a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, and collaborators to share valuable insights and resources in order to better address major global issues. The Exchange accelerates… Read More

Considering Longform: A Reality Check

As a consultant, I'm not just out to sell work; I'm out to advise on best practices. They're tough to find. These digital communications best practices aren't often laid out simply, and they're even less often laid out practically. I mean, just give me some steps to get my work… Read More

Flags, Parody Sites, Johnston100…

"What We're Talking About" is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. Last Fall, we chatted about Roman Mars’s Ted Talk on vexillology — the study of flags. If you haven’t watched it, please do yourself… Read More

Evolving the Nation's Report Card – NAEP 2015 Reports

NAEP’s 2015 mathematics and reading reports represented a big leap forward in their user experience. Here’s how we made some key design decisions. For a while now, I have been telling the story of our work on the digital reports for results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP)… Read More

Helping Support the Brady Campaign in the Prevention of Gun Violence

Since the massacre of 26 children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, over 100,000 additional Americans have died by guns. This averages over 90 Americans every day. Today, dozens of US Congressmen and women are holding a sit-in to help ensure common-sense gun control legislation.  Forum One’s client the Brady Campaign… Read More

Podcasting and the Power of Creative Storytelling

Tick, tick, tick. The rain was jarring. The drops were slow, but Carlie jumped each time they slapped the windshield. Her Honda slowly chugged over the minefield of potholes.   “I don’t know if my car can handle this, Ian,” she warned. “Well, there aren’t any other roads…according to… Read More

Ugly Colors, Hamilton, LinkedIn…

"What We’re Talking About" is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. This week, we weren’t surprised that the “world’s ugliest color” had been named…because it’s definitely ugly. Since Pantone 448C was given the… Read More

Drupal, Referential Integrity, and You

So, you deleted a taxonomy term. First off: shame on you. Look at the mess you’ve made! Erm, well… I should probably back up and explain exactly what happened and why it’s bad. Hope you like whirlwind tours! An Extremely Brief And Wholly Insufficient Introduction to Databases and the Relational… Read More

Annual Reports, Airport Security, InVision…

"What We’re Talking About" is a blog series featuring the articles, websites, topics, and trends that the Forum One team has been chatting about. We’re just into summer, but spring is annual report season, and we admired Airbus Group’s Report this week. Annual Reports are notoriously pricey… Read More

Blended Is Better: The Tricky Union Between UX & Design

To make beautiful web products, a blended approach to project work is not only ideal—it’s necessary. But, more often than not, in most high-level strategy situations, practicing this ethic is easier said than done. Human Beings Like to Label We keep our socks in a sock drawer, our ketchup on the condiment shelf… Read More