In an earlier post, I described the idea of Signal vs. Noise as a metaphor for your Inbox; today, I’d like to use it to address presentation design. By focusing as much as possible on the signal (your message), and cutting away the noise (everything else), we can make truly effective, attractive, interesting presentations.
There are some very powerful functions in Excel that few people ever use: the Database Functions.
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Patterns help our brains determine relationships between things. You can use patterns to help all parts of your design. Today we’ll focus on typography.
There’s a metaphor for many things in life that’s derived from a nerdy concept in electrical engineering: your signal-to-noise ratio. Today, I’m going to apply the idea of increasing your ’signal’, or message and decreasing the ‘noise’, or everything else, to some office productivity ideas.
Adobe Photoshop’s Adjustment Layers – the new Best Practice in photo adjustment.
Here’s a talk Merlin Mann gave on the campus of Google back in 2007 about managing your time.
The website Kuler from Adobe is a very powerful tool for the forces of beauty and useability. It’s perfect for people like me – people who freeze up when someone asks them ‘which shade of purple is better for this?’
If you want to move more quickly and confidently in Microsoft Excel, here’s a couple of useful tips:
