The House Judicial Committee’s Impeachment Hearings have a lot to teach professional women about how to navigate male-dominated workplaces. I want to clarify that this post is not about politics. It has no partisan slant. But what happened at the hearings give us a...
The wonderful thing about design is that it doesn’t have to be perfect or obey any strict rules. It just has to work. The best design captures a mood, and lives it completely. This design is adamantly “all in”. Take me for a ride. There are many ways to express joy...
Picking a color palette can create presentation design stress. Are you certain which colors look good together? Do you know what should be the predominant color? How about picking the accent colors? You don’t have time for a course in color theory. You need help...
A good photograph tells a story to use in your presentation. Sometimes it is a simple story of good taste, care and beauty. Other times it is a more complex story of interrelations, balance, layers of meaning. This photo tells a very complicated and layered story....
Design principals abound In this photo. With a big thank you to Lucia we can use her photo to talk about color, balance, contrast, white space, texture and for extra credit a lovely parallax view. Susan says: Let’s begin with text and the signage that underscores our...
We have an entire series of blog posts in which we recommend using idioms to enliven presentations. This time we explore a particularly intriguing idiom: dark horse. A dark horse describes a person whose experience and abilities are unknown, but who could unexpectedly...
