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On January 30, 2019, we did a fun little drop-in demonstration at the member driven Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood. The…

On November 7, 2018, Vélo Canada Bikes invited leaders in North America’s bicycle advocacy, planning, engineering, and bicycle manufacturing and distribution industry to a day-long series…

One of the unique features of Feedback Frames is that the results can consistently be tabulated and compared quantitatively. Simply count the number of tokens…

Feedback Frames are a hardware solution that is an upgrade on my previous paper based invention called Idea Rating Sheets. My original idea rating sheets…

Feedback Frames are sometimes called "idea rating frames" which is fine by us! Idea rating is a form of range voting. Participants give each option…

High school students put down their smartphones to share opinions using tokens. As part of a Marketing class, students in an Aurora, Ontario high school…

Opportunity knocked this fall. I was invited to demonstrate Feedback Frames at the 6th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement. It is the largest…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM5PL6SkF2M I'm pleased to share with you a fun 5-minute video I used to launch my fall 2016 crowdfunding campaign for the original full feature…

Secret voting avoids peer pressure. On June 6, 2016 Mrs. Davidson invited her grade 12 English class to work in pairs to write one page…

A bunch of dudes had a scotch tasting party and we used Feedback Frames to record our opinions. My buddy, Mike Logan, invited a crew of…

Samara, a non-profit dedicated to reconnecting citizens to politics, took Feedback Frames for a spin. I've always been a fan of Samara, a non-profit, non-partisan…

After workshopping dozens of names with friends (especially award winning writer Andy Lee), I finally landed on Feedback Frames as the clear winner.   I…

I filed for a provisional patent to protect my invention. I'm lawyered up, people! Talking to my super smart  social enterprise lawyer buddy, Robert Wakulat with…

Directors from an office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario used the Feedback Frames in their executive retreat. With a bit of luck, I got…

My first large group demonstration was with my extended family. Love you guys: My family has a tradition of celebrating Father's Day at the cottage,…

This prototype was the winner for demonstrating the value of my new invention. After realizing that pennies were too big to fit 30 per column,…

Designed to fit 30 pennies, prototype #2 was functional, but did not fit letter size paper. At this stage I was trying to design the…

I made my first prototypes on October 8, 2014.  They were made of 100% acrylic (just like some sweaters - 80s pop song reference anyone?)…

After 10 years of accepting that idea rating sheets are the less-than-perfect best tools for large decision-making without computers,  I jumped out of bed with…