Video: Figure It Out – A Chat with Stephen Anderson

Cassini Nazir hosted a Q&A Session with Stephen Anderson on May 26, 2020. The session centered around Stephen’s new book Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding, co-authored with Karl Fast. The event was sponsored by Big Design and Dallas UXPA.

Watch the video below or on the Dallas UXPA YouTube Channel.

About Figure It Out

Information is easy. Understanding is hard.

From incomprehensible tax policies to confusing medical explanations, we’re swamped with information that we can’t make sense of. Figure It Out shows us how to transform information into better presentations, better meetings, better software, and better decisions. So take heart: under the guidance of Anderson and Fast, we can, in fact, figure it out—for ourselves and for others.

About Stephen Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson is a design leader focused on workforce learning and organizational development. And he’s on a mission: to make learning the hard stuff fun, by creating “things to think with” and “spaces” for generative play. Through custom-designed toolkits, on-site training, and The Mighty Minds Club, Stephen helps product teams work through their most difficult situations. As a keynote speaker, Stephen continues to challenge and inspire audiences as he exposes the quirky connections between games, play, learning, interactive visualizations, and other exciting topics.

Stephen is most recognized as the man behind the Mental Notes card deck— a tool that’s widely used by product teams to apply psychology to interaction design. He also authored Seductive Interaction Design, which answers the question: “How do we get people to fall in love with our applications?”