Effective Communication with Visual Design | AAUDE

This page provides information about best practices in the design of tables, charts and presentations.

• Extreme Makeover: PowerPoint Edition  - Prepared by Mary Harrington (Mississippi), Rebecca Carr (AAUDE) and Michelle Broderick (Toronto) for the AIR Forum in May 2011.
• Data Display and Effective Communication through Visual Design: Tables and Charts - Prepared by Rebecca Carr (AAUDE) and Mary Harrington (University of Mississippi) for the Achieving the Dream Strategy Institute in February 2011.
• Twelve Tips for Creating Effective Presentations - Prepared by Rebecca Carr (AAUDE) and Mary Harrington (University of Mississippi) and published in the eAIR newsletter.
  
• Summer Series: Turning Data into Information — Tools, Tips, and Training - Instructional series organized by Pamela Brown (UC Berkeley), which includes both handouts and on-demand video stream of training series on multiple topics.
• Tufte in Twenty Minutes - Prepared by Pamela Brown and Russ Acker (UC Berkeley)

Stephen Few

Consultant in the design of simple displays for effective analysis and communication. His site provides visual business intelligence for enlightening analysis and communication.

• Home page
• Articles, Books
• Examples of improved charts
  

Garr Reynolds

Consultant and author who is concerned with design, marketing and branding, and effective communications of all kinds. His site provides tips on effective PowerPoint presentations.

• Home page
• Presentation tips (Handout)
• Books

Edward Tufte

Lecturer and author of many books on visual presentation of data and design principles

• Home page
• Books

Other

• Complex Diagrams, Noah Illinsky’s blog “for observations, ruminations, rants, and critiques of diagrams, interfaces, visualization, metaphor, and information design”
• Slide makeover podcast (Think outside the slide)
• "But PowerPoints are not your presentation" (Decker Communications)
• "Conference Sessions Do Not Have to Suck"  (Eric Stoller, Inside Higher Ed, 3/30/2012)
• "No, You Can't Have My Slides" (Eric Stoller, Inside Higher Ed, 11/16/2011)
• Before & After Magazine YouTube Channel
• An excellent example of data display.