Information Design Handbook
There’s a lovely new book that just came out called The Information Design Handbook by Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady. it is similar to mine but they focus on the principles of information design (their book is square too which is cool!)
Most of the content in the book can apply to slide design. Here [...]
Topic: Book Reviews
Posted November 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: Design, highway, information, LATCH, type
Cliché of the Week: Clip Art
True story: I was working with a client, reviewing his existing slides with him, and making notes as to what needed work. We came across a data slide containing a large piece of clip art, similar to the fellow you see here.
It was the only graphic in the entire presentation.
I impulsively reached for the delete key, [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted November 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pm by Doug Neff
Tags: Clichés, Design, story, Visuals
Political Signs are like Slides
A gal named Laura Macias is running for City Council in Mountain View. I’m not sure who she hired to design her political signs but they look like really bad PowerPoint. When you drive by the corner of Grant and Cuesta, there’s a cluster of signs and you can read all of them but hers.
She [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted November 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: critique, Design, presentation
Cliché of the Week: The Bullseye
We need to stay focused.
Our numbers are right on target.
We made our goal!
When someone says those words, does your brain instantaneously call up images like the one to the right?
It does? Good. Then your brain is functioning appropriately.
Clichés are perfectly normal and perfectly natural. Your brain was designed to retrieve visuals quickly, and clichés are [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted October 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm by Doug Neff
Tags: Clichés, Design, story, Visuals
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