Monday, May 19, 2003

Six Tips for Improving Your Design Documentation. "If you are a designer or product planner, you probably create documents of some kind to capture your design decisions and solutions. Documentation is a crucial component of successful product planning and implementation, so it's important that it communicates as effectively as possible. Good organization, complete information, and clear writing are, of course, key to the success of any design document, but there are some other, less-obvious techniques you can use to make your documents more readable and understandable. Here are a few of them." [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 9:54:23 AM    Trackback []

Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. "In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall... the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations?" [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 9:53:33 AM    Trackback []

Business Is Toying With a Web Tool. Businesses are starting to toy with the wiki, an off-beat technology for fostering Web interaction. By Amy Cortese. [New York Times: Technology] 9:36:44 AM    Trackback []

Threat Is Seen to Heirloom Software. The personal computer industry began less than three decades ago, but already some of the early software programs that defined the era are an endangered species, the potential victims of "bit rot," according to a prominent digital archivist. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 9:36:23 AM    Trackback []