About Jonathan Belisle

Serial Web Entrepreneur since 1997, Passionate UX Director, Creative Technologist, Inspired Teacher, Jonathan studied Narratology in Cinema and has mastered Visual Thinking and Blended it with various Ethnography & Service Design Methods to playfully approach complex problems in Connected Experiences involving Locative & Networked Medias. He has the curiosity of a scientist and the passion of an artist. You can find his sketchs and thoughts on the future of Interaction & Immersion on his personal blog Futurographer and some more at SAGA LAB. He is the founder of Noetic Assembly a SoundScaper Collective and Noem Toys a Cognitive Toys Builder. He is also the co-founder of UX MTL and Transmedia QCMTL . As an Organizational Storyteller & Business Designer he transformed many companies he worked with such as: Inconet, Stratsite, C-Local, Loft8, SidLee, StayNomad, Pheromone, BlueSponge, Iweb, SagaFilms. In 2012, Jonathan joined SAGA as VP Business Design Strategy + R&D

Envisionning & Sensemaking

Digital Ethnography

As a cartographer of thoughts and Geographer of new Narratives Territories, Jonathan created a space where he manages a set of Curated Topics & Daily Findings.. Jonathan envision and makes sense out of projects involving Data Visualizations, Interfaces & Interactions Design, Augmented Realities, Social & Artifical Intelligence & Situated Software (ARG, Web Fictions, Serious Games, Live Action Role Playing Game, Geolocalized Games, Environmental Media, Connected Experiences, Urban Games, Architectural Narratives & Open Innovation Processes.

Business & Experience Design

Visual Thinking & Service BluePrinting

Great design is characterized by Integral Thinking. The application of these principles to business practices is what we call Business Design. Whether the goal is to develop new products or services, create new ways of marketing to customers or reinvent an entire business model, ‘design thinking’ helps get bigger ideas, faster and more efficiently. We believe the mindset and methods behind great design are the same ingredients for successful Business Design. You can follow my Visual Inspirations on the Subject via Pinterest

Creativity Orchestration

Organizational Storytelling & Relational Arts

Implement user-centric design methods in customer experience planning, product management and application development practices. Install inspiring and structured new narrative concerning an enterprise evolving Architecture with the use of workflow visualizations and illustrated stories. Promote and teach the most efficient ways of tackling complex User Experience planning issues using creativity, storytelling and visual thinking skills. Register for the Classes at Skillshare.

Speaking

Hello, Architekt is now the R&D Lab and Workshop Branch, Publishing & UX Advisor Consultancy Branch of SAGA an International company partnering with Global and Local Brands, Cities & Governements, Film/TV & Immersive Arts Producers to create and Orchestrate extraordinary powerful Transmedia & Immersive storytelling strategies, concepts & plateforms to Connect/Touch and Change/Engage their audiences wherever they may be.

Workshops & Classes

I created a serie of Conferences & Workshops to share insights & practical knowledges on everything that connect to Organizational Storytelling, Transmedia & Narrative Frameworks, Creativity Orchestration and Innovative Business Design (aka Enterprise Architecture).

Some of the presentations i create are available for viewing on SlideShare. and some of my suggested lectures can be found on Shelfari.

Conferences

As a Transmedia Storytelling & UX Planning Advisor & have been invited to present my work and thoughts at Telefilm, ONF, Infopresse, INIS, MIGS, Projet Columbus, SODEC, SARTEC and many other. My favorite theme are Digital Cultures, Interactive Design, transmedia storytelling, including screen-based works, in situ & social media installations, online social networking sites, cross-platform projects, interactive short films, ARGs, Mobile Application and interactive graphic novels.

If you wish to spark a playful, disruptive and meaningful dialogue, invite me to your event or Strategic Committee.

Books

Hello means New. New architectures & new technologies creates new conversations. Jonathan's Books focuses upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind.

The Poets are the new Businessmen

A rare collection of 18 years of Interaction Design Sketchs, Information Design & Concepts Maps, Knowledge Visualizations, UX Poetics & Mysterious Radionics.

To celebrate the 18 years of Hello,Architekt and its transformation into the new SAGA LABS, Jonathan Belisle invite us to dive into his Sketch Books with a storyline that connect the Quest for fire and the Internet of Things.

Re-inventing Enterprise Architecture

Jonathan Belisle has crafted two methods - one for Action Called SMPL (Spark, Model, Play, Learn) and one for Introspection called LENS (Landscape, Energies, Norms, Synthesis). He then binded those methods to an Organizational Storytelling & Business Design Toolkit.

Initiate and Sustain Playful Collaborations, Envision with more clarity and apply Sensemaking to create a shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals' perspectives and varied interests in an Enterprise.

The tales of Wuxia the fox: Sonorus Returns

An Ecological Transmedia Fable that tells the amazing story of Wuxia the Fox and a girl named Oremia. The Book comes with a special set of Magic Dices that can interact with the Ipad Application TONALLI a mysterious divination tool that fell off the Sonorus an Ancient Spaceship that returned from a 25 000 years cosmic voyage.