Kes Sampanthar
About: I am the inventor of ThinkCube - a new innovation tool.
Other roles and interests: Computer scientist, entrepreneur, innovator and expert in the following areas: internet architecture, software architecture, artificial intelligence, artificial life, game design, process methodologies to name a few.
Blog Posts
Brain Rules... Rules!
--John Medina has written one of the best brain books I have read. He is a molecular biologist and director of Brain Center for Applied Learning at t...
SlideShare Picks ThinkCube
--Kes created a ThinkCube presentation for a client in New Zealand yesterday and apparently SlideShare's editorial staff liked it too! They sele...
Personality Not Included - Book Review
--Personality Not Included (PNI), a new book by Rohit Bhargava, SVP of Digital Strategy at Ogilvy, is about why companies lose their authenticity and...
Special Limited Time Offer in Celebration of Creativity and Innovation Day
--Today is Leonardo da Vinci???s birthday! Da Vinci was born April 15th 1452; yes, it has been 556 since one of the most creative individuals in hist...
A Social Network for Innovators
--One of the core principles behind MetaMemes and ThinkCube is to bring people and ideas together. I have been meaning to start a social network arou...
ThinkCube Wins Innovation Awards, NAPA 2008
--Each year the North American Packaging Association recognizes the industry???s most innovative, creative, and distinctive designs. This year, Think...
Creativity Contest to Win Free ThinkCube
--Chris Wilson, over at The Fresh Peel, just announced a very cool creativity contest which MetaMemes is proudly sponsoring. All you have to do is sh...
Podcast on Innovation and Creativity
--After our recent presentation at CanUX 2007, Kes sat down with Qixing Zheng (UX Advisor, Microsoft Canada) to talk about creativity and ThinkCube. ...
The Farnsworth Invention
--Kes and I are HUGE Aaron Sorkin fans. If you aren't familiar with Sorkin, he's a playwright, producer, and screenwriter probably most wel...
Beyond Braindstorming at CanUX
--Kes and I recently spent a few days in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Banff, AB) where we interacted with a group of User Experience folks at the 20...
An idea is only an idea until…
--More often than not, great ideas remain nothing more than great ideas. Even for the best ideas, the road to profitability is long with infinite opp...
Innovation in Surprising Places
--Name 3 innovative organizations. Google, IDEO, or Apple might come to mind, but I can almost guarantee you wouldn???t say the United States Navy. L...
Push vs. Pull: Trends in Retail Shopping
--Something I read in this month???s issue of Fast Company resonated with me: "When employees become sharers of information, instead of sellers ...
Results of Brainstorming Competition
--2 weeks ago I posted a brainstorm challenge on a new online brainstorming website www.brainreactions.com I posted the following challenge to genera...
Playful Innovation, Part 2
--Building on my last post, let???s explore some more complex examples of combining existing ideas to form new ideas. Again we will use example cards...
Playful Innovation, Part 1
--As Kes said in a previous post, combinatory play is one of the most important mental skills to develop for creativity and innovation. On a basic le...
