The Microsoft Office 2010 Public Beta Is Available, and We’re in It!

Let’s arrange a meet up.  How about inside PowerPoint?
Yep, it’s true.  Microsoft wanted those who use PowerPoint to have on-hand access to world-class presentation training within their software (yay!) and asked us if we would mind sharing some of our tips in the next release of their presentation software, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

We have had to [...]

Topic: Business, Design, Strategy, Technology, Tutorial
Tags: beta, duarte, microsoft, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2010, presentation, Technology, training, Tutorial

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When to Hire a Professional Designer

My dad is a handyman. Not professionally, but a handyman just the same. He can fix anything: cars, lawnmowers, leaky faucets, washing machines, kitchen cabinets, roofs, fences, and just about anything with wires sticking out of it. He fixes things and he builds things. He tinkers with things, takes them apart, learns how they work, [...]

Topic: Business, Design
Tags: creative, Design, duarte, presentation

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Rooftops and French Fries

I had a nice moment today when I walked by the whiteboard outside my cube. It contained a schematic of the proposed new work area for the content development team here at Duarte. The proposed space was directly above Nancy’s office, on the roof of the building, and many of my Duarte colleagues had added [...]

Topic: Diary
Tags: creative, culture, duarte, whiteboard

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Blog Has a New Look

When the book came out in September, we set up a blog up quickly and decided at the time to use design elements from the book. Now that book #2 is starting to formulate, we realize that the strategy of having design attributes from slide:ology doesn’t make sense since the next book is an altogether [...]

Topic: Diary
Tags: blog, duarte, redesign

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Beauty in, Beauty Out

To keep the creative juices flowing, you need to know how to find beauty–it won’t always find you. If you ingest visually beautiful things, you’ll be able to output them for your presentation. Creativity is everywhere, even if you live in an urban jungle like San Francisco.
Recently, Harris coordinated a small group from Duarte to [...]

Topic: Design
Tags: creative, duarte, photography

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