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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Webinar, Seminar and Stuff, oh My!

The last webinar I did for VizThink had almost 12,000 people watch it. Man, folks are hungry for really great presentations. Here’s a podcast they did with me yesterday. It was a different experience to navigate through a PDF instead of having slides.
So for the upcoming VizThink webinar, I’ll be presenting with three folks who [...]

Topic: Business, Message
Tags: book, duarte, seminar, slide:ology, webinar

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