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Visual Thinking and Successful Digital Experiences

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

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This beautifully illustrated presentation uses visual thinking as a way to develop better digital experiences.

Why Do We Tease Each Other with Reports

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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This heavily illustrated, 51-slide presentation discusses how to present to audiences statistical information from reports.

Interactive Websites Draw Minds, Shape Public Perception

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The interactive look and feel of a corporate website could help shape positive perceptions about the organization if the site includes a likeable design and features that engage the target audience, especially job seekers, according to media researchers.

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An Introduction to Visual Thinking

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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This 31-slide presentation illustrates the simplified lifecycle of visual thinking: conceive, consider, create, craft, and clean up. Included are four exercises for you to try your hand at visual thinking.

Eye-Candy Is a Critical Business Requirement

Monday, August 25th, 2008

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This graphically interesting presentation discusses how you can improve visual design, whether it’s for a website, PowerPoint presentations, or visuals in business proposals and reports.

Visual and Creative Thinking

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

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This highly illustrated presentation includes a discussion of the five myths about creativity and provides eight visual thinking tips.

Guide to The Future of Communications: Color Replaces Words

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

What if, you could use color as an alternative language to create meaningful relationships with your audiences? To open our minds to new ways of communicating, we first need to break out of conventional thinking. Here are three steps to jump-start your color planning process: 

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Visual Communication And Online Collaboration Technologies–New Tools And Web Services

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Interested in learning about the newest web presentation, visual communication and online collaboration tools? Robin Good’ Sharewood Picnic is back again, bringing you the best and most interesting tools you probably haven’t heard about.
 

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Oral and Visual Culture: A Dominant Form of Communication

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Have you ever wondered why everywhere you look there are various types of visual aids?
In today’s society oral language and visual elements are as important as they were in prehistoric times. A posthistoric-man society has not completely evolved to exclusively communicating textually, but rather modern society has kept and increased its use of oral/visual […]

The History of Visual Communication

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, […]

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