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Duende is a creative consultancy based in San Francisco. We strive to create beauty and facilitate sensemaking through story-driven, strategic, collaborative design.

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    Trellisto Saves Your Settings

    We’ve just released an update to Trellisto, our Chrome extension that lets you sort and filter by list name on your Cards page. Version 1.1.0 auto-saves your Trellisto …

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    Ant Brain

    Ant Brain

    Some years ago, I drew a series of ant cartoons to illustrate Eugene Eric Kim’s talk on collective intelligence.

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    Mindset Cards

    Mindset Cards

    A tool for building, transforming, and assessing culture in groups.

    What is duende?

    Tener duende ("to have duende") is to have authentic power, soul, or magic. The storied term has roots in flamenco and derives from el duende, a mystical creature or sprite in Spanish mythology. The poet Federico García Lorca presented the aesthetic theory of duende in his famous 1933 lecture, Juego y teoria del duende (Play and theory of the duende).

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