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With a lot of experience, you gain a lot of ideas and information to share. On our blog we share insights into our world, our ideas about visualization and visual thinking, the people that bring out work to life, updates on training, case studies and visualization tips.

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bikablo: Top in the SZ training ranking

In the 2024 continuing education ranking by Süddeutsche Zeitung (largest german broadsheet newspaper), our visualization training ranks at the top in the creative field – even ahead of major providers like Udemy or ZEIT Akademie. How is it that we, as a relatively small ‘training boutique,’ perform so well?

sharing iPad screen in MS Teams using CamLink and OBS

How to use your iPad instead of the webcam in MS Teams

Why do I want to connect the iPad to MS Teams (or Zoom)?
I would like to be able to show my iPad Screen as a tile in the normal Teams window. It should be subtle and not by sharing my screen to draw to much attention and to have a seamless switch between different views. I can i.e.
• document the meeting using OneNote or ProCreate
• easily zoom into pictures or drawing
• easily annotate pictures or digital whiteboards
• using the drawing feature while presenting your content

Hiromi Hara

Design Thinking and Visual Thinking – a perfect fit?

In a recent interview Hiromi Hara speaks about her experience with applying the design thinking method with the help of visualization.
Hara explains that design thinking is not primarily about problem solving, rather about unveiling complex problems and getting better insight in the root cause of issues, hence the importance of the expression of individual perception and the comprehensible yet memorable depiction of thinking processes.

Using Visuals in Coaching

How our global trainer Jill Greenbaum got into drawing and which impact visualization has got on coaching situations.

News

Hybrid? Hyflex? Blended?

Presence meets Online takes you as a trainer, coach, expert, consultant, visualizer and facilitator on a journey through digital and analog dialog worlds and helps you to make the right decisions.

Reports & Case Studies

Closer than we thought: Visualization and Comics

What do graphic novels and graphic recording have in common? This is the question bikablo asked itself in a conversation with the comic artist Oliver Scheibler at the Comic Festival in Cologne. An experience report with surprising insights.

A Look Inside bikablo E-xtraClass

How do I keep up after the basics training? With the bikablo e-xtraClass, the online format for practicing, exchanging and deepening! Trainer Michaela Ruhfus reveals what all basics graduates can now look forward to.

Tips, Tricks & Methods

sharing iPad screen in MS Teams using CamLink and OBS

How to use your iPad instead of the webcam in MS Teams

Why do I want to connect the iPad to MS Teams (or Zoom)?
I would like to be able to show my iPad Screen as a tile in the normal Teams window. It should be subtle and not by sharing my screen to draw to much attention and to have a seamless switch between different views. I can i.e.
• document the meeting using OneNote or ProCreate
• easily zoom into pictures or drawing
• easily annotate pictures or digital whiteboards
• using the drawing feature while presenting your content

Hiromi Hara

Design Thinking and Visual Thinking – a perfect fit?

In a recent interview Hiromi Hara speaks about her experience with applying the design thinking method with the help of visualization.
Hara explains that design thinking is not primarily about problem solving, rather about unveiling complex problems and getting better insight in the root cause of issues, hence the importance of the expression of individual perception and the comprehensible yet memorable depiction of thinking processes.

Using Visuals in Coaching

How our global trainer Jill Greenbaum got into drawing and which impact visualization has got on coaching situations.

Bikablo Bildwerk

The new Corona warning app in the explanatory film

With this animated explanatory film, we at bikablo would like to show how the federal government’s “Corona warning app” works, why it was developed, which technologies it uses (and which it doesn’t), and what role data protection plays.

The digital grab bag

A strategy image workshop spontaneously switched to online by bikablo bildwerk enabled surprising insights: Here are the five most important takeaways on virtual collaboration.

What Makes a Graphic Recording Successful?

For our graphic recorders, process competence and experience in working with the client are crucial. bikablo visualizer Birgit Jansen reveals what it takes to provide meaningful visual accompaniment to a dialogue event.

Info topics

bikablo Gives Back to Cap Anamur!

Giving something back to the world is a matter close to bikablo’s heart. That’s why we’ve been supporting Cap Anamur since our founding with the author proceeds from our industry bestseller “UZMO – Thinking with a Pen”.