Designing Interactions for a Positive Experience

October 1, 2010

Interactions are an important part of website design because they engage the user at a deep level. The act of getting physically involved (even if it’s just a mouse click or gesture) can potentially improve cognitive performance. Evidence that the body is intricately tied up with the mind is showing up throughout cognitive research. This [...]

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Understanding Presentation Graphics

September 1, 2010
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Although this piece of news could shock anyone involved in visual communication, I’ll say it anyway. It’s time to realize that audiences do not attend a presentation because of the slides. They attend because they want to hear what the speaker has to say.

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Guidelines for Designing Tables

August 2, 2010
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Although no one single visual display is most effective for presenting quantitative data, tables are often an ideal choice when you need to present specific values. Information placed within a grid framework and aesthetically designed for ease of use provides an efficient way for people to look up and compare data.

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How to Improve the Appeal of Your Graphics

July 16, 2010
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If you’re interested in improving the positive appeal of your visual communications, then you may want to understand how to make them more fluent.

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How to Avoid Designs that Split Attention

June 19, 2010
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We humans are at the mercy of a phenomenon called the split-attention effect. Many conventional information graphics, animations, visualizations and multimedia presentations demand that viewers simultaneously split their attention between divergent sources of information.

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Pick The Right Icon For The Job

May 23, 2010
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We quickly decode a well-designed icon, but how can we design or select the most effective one for a particular purpose? This article answers that question and questions you didn’t know you had.

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