January 24, 2018
In my Storytelling with Graphs workshop, and my soon-to-be published book, I teach business professionals how to design graphs to make the story quick and clear. […]
June 15, 2015
I was watching a YouTube video recently on nutritional supplements (long story!) and saw the speaker had used this title slide. I immediately knew what was […]
June 10, 2013
The National Security Agency is in the news for this horrendous PowerPoint slide explaining the PRISM data-collection program. I wanted to do a slide makeover to […]
February 15, 2012
This is a great graph makeover by presentation designer Andy Arrow. The ideas expressed in this video are the foundational stuff of great graphs. Some […]
January 9, 2012
It’s easy to create tables in PowerPoint. But it takes some thought and design skills to create a really attractive and effective table. In this blog […]
December 7, 2011
The measure of a chart is how quickly it conveys the message while being visually pleasing. Conveying the message is, of course, the main point of […]
November 29, 2011
Here’s a terrific post at the Forbes.com blog by Naomi Robbins, using a graph makeover to show that great graphs require thought; they don’t just happen. I loved Naomi’s advice, […]
August 3, 2011
The U.S. voted to increase the debt ceiling and now John Boehner’s PowerPoint deck, explaining the plan, is already drawing traffic tickets from the PowerPoint vigilantes […]
June 2, 2011
Mitt Romney has been criticized for using PowerPoint slides to explain his health care plan. His slides are a bit of a mess but I want to […]