Entries Tagged as ‘Design’

August 8, 2007

GIMP Tutorials

[Attention conservation notice: I'm posting this so I can go back and do these tutorials later. I'm too cheap to spring for Adobe CS3, but I need a robust image editing program. I think GIMP will fit the bill nicely.]
This site has 10 video GIMP tutorials like this:

available. Links out to [...]

August 7, 2007

Teaching the Web 2.0 Student

I ran across this presentation a few months ago on Slideshare:

It really got me thinking about how we educate college students, and what kind of a world we are preparing them for. Clearly our “Charlie’s”  are going to increasingly find themselves working in these types of “virtual companies,” so what are we doing at the [...]

August 4, 2007

Death by PowerPoint

[Attention Conservation Notice: Sometimes I post things to the blog for my own research, like an Outboard Brain. If it interests you, great. If not, move on. I'm putting this up so I can find it later. Thanks, Mgmt.]
This is a nice presentation, nice design. Clearly this guy has read “Beyond Bullet Points,” and has [...]

July 27, 2007

PowerPoint Slide Design

Huzzah! Just found the slides from Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation over at Slideshare.

This is helpful not only as a takeaway from the video I posted yesterday, but also because it is a great example of simplicity-in-presentation.
I’ve really been working on moving to this type of slide design over the last year or so. Academia [...]