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By: Think Visually and Design Conceptually « UX Crank

Think Visually and Design Conceptually « UX Crank — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:08:20 +0000

[...] visually. Dave Gray is the founder of XPLANE, a visual thinking consultancy, and he says that we’re a visually illiterate society. If that’s true, we had to work pretty hard to get so ignorant. I say that because people were [...]

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:31:31 +0000

Christophe, I agree fully!

By: Christophe Harrer

Christophe Harrer — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:37:48 +0000

Thank you Dave for sharing your great understanding of the power of PowerPoint. We should change our education system: both our verbal and our visual communication skills need a lot of improvements.

By: Ikke drep målgruppen din med kjedsomhet | Informasjonskonsulenten

Ikke drep målgruppen din med kjedsomhet | Informasjonskonsulenten — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:21:14 +0000

[...] ““Death by PowerPoint” er et utrykk som beskriver de infamøse møtene hvor en foredragsholder utsetter publikummet sitt for evigvarende slide-presentasjoner der hvert enkelt ark er proppet med kulepunkter og kompleks, forrvirrende informasjon. [...]

By: Paper Bits – links for 2008-05-24

Paper Bits – links for 2008-05-24 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:16:15 +0000

[...] Dave Gray » Why PowerPoint rules the business world “The problem is much, much deeper than PowerPoint. The issue is this: PowerPoint is a visual tool, and we are a visually illiterate society.” True++ (tags: presentation visualization vizthink powerpoint articles) [...]

By: VizThink Blog » Blog Archive » A Powerful Tool Poorly Used…

VizThink Blog » Blog Archive » A Powerful Tool Poorly Used… — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:02:53 +0000

[...] Why PowerPoint Rules the Business World – Dave Gray [...]

By: A call for visual literacy (and an end to death by PowerPoint) - Mind Mapping Software Blog

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:45:17 +0000

[...] In the transition from the industrial age to the information age, we are now faced with a growing volume of visual, non-linear information. But as a society, we are largely visually illiterate. Dave Gray, writing in his CommunicationNation blog, recently touched on this apparent paradox. [...]

By: Communication visuelle - visual communication « jca’s Com blog-notes - communiquer.ch

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:26:55 +0000

[...] Les dessinateurs de BD font d’excellent concepteurs de présentation Powerpoint ou comment les spécialistes de la combinaison image + texte ont beaucoup à nous apprendre sur la communication par Powerpoint… (en complément : pourquoi Powerpoint domine le monde des affaires [...]

By: Death by PowerPoint | Written By All Of Us | A Slack Barshinger Blog

Death by PowerPoint | Written By All Of Us | A Slack Barshinger Blog — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:14:29 +0000

[...] get motion sickness when I see a presentation. But it happens … a lot. So when Dave Gray postulated why, I was on it.It’s been on my mind ever since Apple introduced Keynote and I saw my [...]

By: dharder

dharder — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:09:48 +0000

Any electronic presentation should be designed in such a way that YOU, the presenter, is the center of attention. So many times my colleagues will “hide behind” the slide and put so many words on the screen that the viewers read and not listen to a word you say. Strike a balance!