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DESIGN   |  1 comment

Information Design is Cool

Josh Rubin, who practices the erratic and ephemeral art of cool hunting, has a, well, cool post on his blog today about 10x10, an interactive tool that gives an arresting snapshot of the most relevant words and images of the moment. ...READ»

Visualizing Progress

Related somewhat to my last entry about courage and taking the pawn early...(and yes, the metaphor of business-as-chess is both useful and perhaps overused)...but bear with me. I think one of the traits that separates great leaders ...READ»

Visualizing Progress

Related somewhat to my last entry about courage and taking the pawn early...(and yes, the metaphor of business-as-chess is both useful and perhaps overused)...but bear with me. I think one of the traits that separates great leaders ...READ»

DAN HEATH   |  Comment

The Mighty Statistic: Making Numbers Stick

Chip and I wrote a Fast Company column, "The Gripping Statistic," about making numbers stick. There's also a long section on sticky data in the Credible chapter of Made to Stick. Here's a link to the Charles Fishman piece on bottled ...READ»

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Blame It on Microsoft II

David Byrne loves PowerPoint. Edward Tufte loathes it. And Cheryl Dahle suggests that there's more to off-site and planning meetings than slide shows and white boards. Plenty of parallel reads!READ»

Books

Required Reading for Interactive Designers

The storied School of Visual Arts, in New York, just published a list of required reading for the incoming class of students in its MFA interaction-design program. Here's a chance to get SVA MFA education for $58,000 off (not ...READ»

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Visualizing the Economic Stimulus

The Washington Post recently created an essential visualization of the stimulus bill before Congress. Granted, it was created before the trimming that just occurred in the House, but it's illuminating nonetheless (see a portion ...READ»

visual complexity

Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. READ»

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Thought Leaders: The Next 30

So many people are interested in who else is on this list and where they rank that I thought it would be helpful to share with you the next 30. So here they are: 21. Jeffrey Pfeffer 22. Philip Kotler 23. Robert C. Merton 24. C.K. ...READ»