For some of us, it’s sometimes unavoidable. For others of us, it’s our most inspired environment for writing. For others of us still, we’re so restless anyway, we might as well work. What do I speak of? Writing presentations while in transit on: planes, trains, and (for the very advanced), automobiles. As straight forward as it may [...]
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Non-Office Options: For when you don’t have PowerPoint
A recent house guest of mine was asked to do a Pecha Kucha while here in New York City. She’s a surface-textile designer and doesn’t really use Microsoft Office products and doesn’t feel it’s worth the investment for the singular presentation. She asked me what her options are, which had me thinking that others may [...]
Anatomy of a chart
When designing a presentation chart, you should focus on clarity and credibility above all else. In order to best explain what I mean by clarity and credibility, I’ve put this visual anatomy of a chart together. Clarity: Hierarchy of titles is clear. The overall message of the page (the top line that says [...]
Metaphors series revisited: Opportunity
Last June, we had a series of posts brainstorming possible visuals for metaphors, including: growth, balance, and leadership. In the beginning of this second series, we covered innovation. In this post, I’ve put together a list of possible images for another theme that I’ve seen in tons of presentations: opportunity. According to Merriam Webster, an opportunity is: A [...]
Metaphors Series Revisited: Innovation
Last June, we had a series of posts brainstorming possible visuals for metaphors, including: growth, balance, and leadership. In this post, I’ve put together a list of possible images for another theme that I’ve seen in dozens of presentations: innovation. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of innovation is: 1. The introduction of something new 2. [...]
Fonts & PowerPoint
If you’d like to have an edgier, moe sophisticated looking PowerPoint template, I’d suggest not using one of the following fonts: Arial, Calibri, Tahoma or Verdana. Everyone uses them. The benefit to using them, is that anyone can then edit your pages. If that’s not the concern, then consider using a different font. When selecting [...]
Killer pages
This is the name of a summary page using combined elements from data-driven and conceptual chart objects that you can base an entire conversation on. It could be one central concept, a filled-out framework, or a summary of your data (e.g., a dashboard). It’s a great idea to use a killer page, also known as [...]
Chart Design Course
I just shared the first part of the 2-part webinar series I designed for the now defunct Solvate. The first part, shared last Wednesday, was about chart selection. This one was about chart design for non-designers. Various questions were asked, various questions were answered. A lot of knowledge transfer occurred! Check it out: Solvate Chart Design [...]
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