How to Use Focal Points? Size and expectation play an important part in where the eyes fall and how the learner takes things in. You…
How to Use Red and How Not To? Unless you have a really good reason, don’t use red. One in four people experiences a certain…
How to Use Color Effectively in Your Presentations? While color is very powerful and can affect our moods and emotions, many people have trouble reading…
Alignment: How to Tell the Amateurs from the Pros? Alignment is the third element in good design. Alignment is all about symmetry, asymmetry, positions, positive…
Repetition: Again, and Again and Again! The second element of good design is repetition. We know through a host of research studies that repetition is…
Contrast: How to Use It to Your Advantage? Contrast is the first lady of design. It is important because it gets your attention, drawing your…
The Power of Attention Arguably we have at least five senses—some experts say more. It is generally accepted that we take information in through our…
Fonts: What they are and how to use them? Proper use of fonts and text is good way to elevate your materials. With text, all…
Why Does My Stuff Look Like CRAP? Years ago when I taught high school desktop publishing and web design, I would talk about a principle…
Why is Visual Design About More Than Just the Visuals? Visuals are a good and inexpensive place to start because visual images have power. Neuroscience…
Most people are so consumed by the routine and so enticed by the always on status that they indicate it has not affected their stress….
The ability to be in charge of yourself and your actions requires a few things most of which you were never taught in school, at…
“The pajama effect is the ability of those connected via digitally mediated communications such as telecommuters and online learners, to blend their private and public…
“The difficulty of writing about dramatic change in the midst of it occurring is that the very drama of the effects unleashed by the change…
Virtual workers struggle with invisibility. They are concerned that what they do is not seen or recognized by the organization’s leadership. Does management know how…