“Find and download great looking Excel and PowerPoint charts. Our Chart Chooser lets you explore many different well designed charts and download templates for Excel or PowerPoint with a click. Chart Chooser is an online tool that answers two questions we commonly get:
1. What type of chart should I use to show my data?
2. How can I make good looking Excel or PowerPoint charts?”
Chart Chooser
Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
“I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint.
I do a lot of presentations. Each time I give a talk, I try to improve on something. I have a good base on which to build thanks to an unlikely education. Despite my career in technology, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre.
I learned a lot of good public speaking practices from theatre school. They come in two flavours–content and technique…”
How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes?
“Test your knowledge of HTML! This includes only HTML 4 Elements defined by the W3C. (Sorry, no blink or marquee tags).” (Thanks Jon!)
Child Artwork Jewelry
“If you talk to any mother who no longer has school aged children, they will tell you how they long for the quiet, simple days, when their children used to give them works of art they created with their own tiny hands and a box of crayons… As time passed those works of art became misplaced, or even thrown out. Now there is a way to preserve these memories forever, with the permanence of sterling silver. Create a heirloom that can be passed from generation to generation, with your own Child Artwork Pin.”
VectorMagic | The Online Tool for Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion
“This site converts bitmap images to vector art — it’s an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you. Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated. Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image. Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves.”
The Crestock Photoshop Contest 2007
Hey folks: I’m a judge in Crestock’s annual contest this year. You can win some nice Mac stuff — check it out.
Compete for free in the biggest Photoshop contest of the year to win amazing prizes for four whole weeks ranging from iPods and MacBooks to the designers’ Holy Grail – The Quad Core Mac Pro with dual 30″ LCDs!
Here’s how it works: There are four rounds with different themes, and you can contribute one image for each round. Sign-up and submission is completely free and without commitment.
For each round we will supply a set of source photos from our image library. Your entry must be based on one or several of these photos, but you are free to do with them whatever you like. You may also use other elements in your design, as long as one or more of the source images can be recognised as a central part of your design.
Dashboard Recap: Recent Screenshots
“Faced with a lack of resources in the areas of dashboard design and best practices, The Dashboard Spy set out a few years ago to collect examples of the budding new business intelligence technology known as the Digital Dashboard. After asking his many fellow UI designers, information architects, project managers, IT experts and business users for example screenshots, he decided to post the examples on the web. Well, that started a site that has since grown to be the largest collection of BI interfaces available.”
Managing design
“Not sure how design could fit into your business? Want to find out how other people do it? Read our in-depth articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.”
The Nerd Handbook
“A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.”
