Infographic design by Recker House for the Neue... | The official tumblr blog of WE AND THE COLOR. 20 Powerful Infographic Design Kits. Infograpics have become so popular these days and as a result more and more high quality infographic design kits are made available to help designers. Infographics can be used very effectively to present complex data in a nice visual and powerful way. It is done using hand-picked design elements that relate to the data they represent e.g. demographic data can be effectively illustrated using small carefully colored human icons as overlay on a simplified map. Online marketers love infographics for their ability to go viral on social networks and often they are offered as easy to embed code making it fast and simple for e.g. bloggers to share them in posts… very useful value oriented way to build links and online presence.
Infograpics designs are also used commercially in information products. The huge availability of amazing infographics makes it critical to stand out and have a unique and clever design. Tips and Tricks for designing great Infographics Infographics Design Elements. Cool Infographic Designs. 5 Infographics on Web Accessibility for Designers. When you are designing a site you have a hundred little details to keep in mind. But it isn’t all about concept design and launch. It is also about making sure whatever you create has the maximum web accessibility possible for your users. Which is a whole other set of guidelines you have to follow, apart from the design process itself. Don’t get caught making common pitfalls.
Check out these five excellent infographics on web accessibility from top designers in the game. Web Accessibility for Designers View Larger WebAim is a Utah State University based organization dedicated to creating an accessible online world for people with disabilities. Accessibility Challenges In Email Design View Larger Addressing a challenge often skirted over by design blogs, this typographic uses a retro infromation pamphlet look to talk about the different kinds of disability you will encounter (Visual, Physical and Cognitive/Neurological), and provide helpful statistics on each. What Is Web Accessibility? Curio. I occasionally have a look at the keywords people have entered in Google that lead them to this site, and so I notice that someone searched for a comparison between Curio and Circus Ponies Notebook. Not knowing Curio, I had a short look at the program. The Pros Visual Metaphor with a lot of helpful features Curio is a little bit like Tinderbox — you manage your ideas visually in a free form format.
This means that you can drag text, boxes, mind maps, etc. over an “idea space” and place them anywhere you want, like you would do with paper on a physical desktop. And Curio really nailed working visually — the objects look beautiful, the styles are nice and it is fun to work with. This combination is really nice, especially if you have a graphic tablet, because the drawing pens are really great and fast to use. Excellent integration with other programs As far as I can see it, the integration with other programs is really well done.
Project Management Features Dossiers The Cons Should you use it? Curio - Mind Mapping, Brainstorming, and Project Management Software for Mac OS X. The Real World You have work projects and home projects, school classes to manage and book reports to research, vacations to plan and novels to write, web sites to design and lab results to organize. You currently use a collection of notebooks, your office whiteboard, scraps of sticky notes, oodles of browser bookmarks, and multiple documents scattered around your hard disk. You’re juggling it all, but organizing this information should be easier. A Better World! In Curio, create a project to represent your real-world project, then fill it with everything related to that project including notes, images, documents, web links, and much, much more. Anything placed into Curio can be associated with tags, flags, checkboxes, priorities, ratings, and start/due dates and durations, for fast and easy searching and task management.
The best part is you are in complete control over your idea spaces. Thousands of customers around the world use Curio in a surprisingly diverse range of occupations. Curio 7 Professional Overview. Blog « ThinkX Intellectual Capital. There’s a mandate in the corporate world that’s been called the Innovation Imperative. In just about any major organization, people hear it several times a day: Innovate or Die. It’s assumed that people will know what being innovative actually means.
And how to do it. So employees are routinely herded into innovation sessions, where they’re expected to generate new thinking about products or services, corporate structures, or production processes. More often than not, they walk out of those sessions having accomplished very little. Imagine someone saying to you, “Ok, go run the marathon.” And yet, that’s exactly the approach most organizations take when they ask people to put their brains into high gear and think differently.
Whether you want to produce high quality running or high quality thinking, you have to learn how. If you’re a marathoner, your routine will include running sprints and endurance, uphill and flat. That’s what our program Leading Innovation Teams is all about. Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking « ThinkX Intellectual Capital.
Think you think as well as you can? Think again. Regardless of your basic equipment you can learn to think better — more productively, more creatively, more effectively. Based on Tim Hurson’s acclaimed corporate innovation seminars, Think Better shows you a proven, repeatable process that will help you have more ideas, better ideas, more of the time. Tim Hurson’s Productive Thinking model has helped thousands of people in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 corporations around the world think more creatively, more innovatively, and more productively. There are hundreds of books on thinking or creativity or innovation. Think Better is about Productive Thinking — why it’s important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a game changer.
Better thinking means more success. All of us already have the ideas we need to succeed. Global companies use Hurson’s Productive Thinking Model to generate innovative solutions to complex business problems. Hurson's Productive Thinking Model - Problem-Solving Tools from MindTools. Solving Problems Creatively © iStockphotoRawpixel A creative approach to solving problems. Creativity is incredibly important in problem-solving – if you're not creative, you'll struggle to understand the issues surrounding a problem, and you're unlikely to identify the best solutions. Worse still, you might fail to solve the problem altogether! So, what's a good way to be more creative in your problem-solving, and come up with the best ideas to move forward with?
Hurson's Productive Thinking Model could be just the thing to help you. About the Model The Productive Thinking Model was developed by author and creativity theorist, Tim Hurson, and was published in his 2007 book, "Think Better. " The model presents a structured framework for solving problems creatively. The model consists of six steps, as follows: Ask "What is going on? " From "Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking" by Tim Hurson. © 2008. Or Plan-Do-Check-Act Step 1: Ask "What is Going On? " a. First, brainstorm b.
Entraining Part 3: Language « ThinkX Intellectual Capital. In the early days of TV, there was a popular afternoon program called Queen for a Day. It took ordinary American housewives, often in unfortunate circumstances, and made them feel special — with attention, gifts, and tiaras. Very touching. Of course, once they went home, these women faced the same realities they had the day before. Nothing really changed. It’s the same with one-day training programs. They may seem useful while you’re attending, but once you’re back at work, the effect quickly dissipates in the face of every-day routine. When it comes to skill development and behavior change, most of us know one-day trainings don’t work.
In earlier posts, I discussed the move from training into entraining — a deliberate process of skill development, attitude change, and cultural evolution. When ThinkX introduces productive thinking into organizations, we’re careful about the language we use. Next blog, the fourth entraining requirement: Practice. Entraining Part 2: Quick Wins « ThinkX Intellectual Capital. Last week, I wrote about the great corporate training myth — the misguided belief that you can get people to change their behaviors as a result of a one-day (if that!) “training” session: What we do need are practical approaches that entrain new skills and new behaviors in people so they actually stick — and make a difference.
Entraining is a process of skill development, attitude change, and cultural evolution.In my field — creativity and innovation —entraining productive new skills and behaviors requires five things. I’m going to talk about each of them over the next several posts. This entry is about the second requisite for entraining: quick wins. By quick wins, I mean opportunities for people to test their developing skills in low-risk, rapid-reward situations where they can see how their new learnings can benefit them, where they can fail without pain, and where success delivers the clear message, “Yes, I can do this!” A new change initiative is mandated. What will you do? How to Change Your Life (dirtSimple.org) Can people really change? We tend to assume that circumstances change easily and often, but that people change rarely, slowly, and with great difficulty.
But these assumptions are wrong. The truth is that people can change easily and instantly. The real problem is that they also change back just as easily! Having Trouble Getting Started On Your Goals? In this short video, I explain -- and demonstrate! -- a simple 3-step process for getting yourself motivated, instantly, using a little-understood trick of the mind that makes you want to do things, instead of having to push yourself. Meanwhile, the circumstances of our lives change slowly in comparison. Hogwash! So if you want to change your life, you need to do three things: Focus on changing your actions, not your circumstances Accept and plan for your weaknesses, instead of toughing it out Periodically review your results to fine-tune or re-think your approach if needed Change Your Actions, Not Your Circumstances The Slow, Fast Way.
"On My Own With Lyrics" By Ashes Remain - HD. 80 20. By Celes on Jan 9, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post This is part-1 of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. “Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.” – Richard Koch, The 80/20 Principle Today, I am going to share with you the power of applying the 80/20 principle to your life. So, what is the 80/20 Principle? Imagine you are the CEO of a company and you have a sales force of 100 people. However, what if instead of a 1-1 relationship, you found out 80% of your sales is actually contributed by 20% of your staff? What the 80-20 Principle Is About This is what the 80/20 rule is about – it says that 80% of the effects in situations are from 20% of the causes. Examples of 80/20 Principle in Action Below are just a few of the tens of thousands of examples where 80/20 principle can be observed: ….And the list goes on. 1. 2.
Achieve More With Less In Life Using 80/20 Principle. Get Your Big Rocks In First. By Celes on Feb 2, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post For today’s article, I’m going to start off with a timeless story which exemplifies the big idea I’m going to share. I’ve condensed the original story into its key essence, so please read it before continuing on. One day a teacher was speaking to a group of students. He pulled out an extremely large jar and set it on a table. Big rocks – these are what’s most important and valuable to you. Big rocks are the same as your Quadrant 2 Tasks. Without getting your big rocks in place first, they will never ever get in. What are your big rocks in your life? Career: Are you pursuing your dream career? If not, are you working to get them in place? If you do not consciously get to your big rocks, you are never going to get to them.
Start to consciously take action and get your big rocks in. This is part of the Maximizing Productivity series. The News. | A life in 5 years. January eighth. A tuesday. The day I got the results from my 150 day experiment. It started with me sleeping in a bit longer than normal, two hours of meditation and then my new weekly Qi Gong class, a class where I purposefully opted to stand rather than sit. I reasoned on my walk home the night before that for me sitting was a type of defeat, and since I knew I would hear good news later in the day, I needed to stay away from anything akin to defeat. So I stood as I moved through the positions radiating and intaking healing energies. As the day went on, that feeling never went away, in fact a nervous energy also swept over me, making me feel like I was generating and/or receiving something like stereophonic energy, pumping on multiple channels to the beat of my heart.
And with that much energy surging through me, I was a bit more antsy than usual. I guess you could say I was a bit nervous. I had been so sure for 150 days. At least I was able to keep my good humor about it, right? Why You Should Not Resist 80/20 Principle. By Celes on Jan 10, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post This is part-2 of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. Some people have written off the 80/20 rule, because of misunderstandings of the rule itself. Below are examples of what the 80/20 is NOT about: 80/20 is NOT about extremism. My initial resistance toward 80/20 I used to write off the 80/20 principle because it was at odds with my perfectionist and idealist persona. However, all those sentiments were from looking at the 80/20 rule in the wrong manner. 80/20 is not about being incomplete, being lazy or not putting in our best effort. If at any point the net outcome is worse from applying the 80/20, it is due to a wrong application of the principle (because we wrongly identified something that is important as unimportant), rather than it being a fallacy.
Looking at 80/20 with an example Let’s imagine you have a coconut plantation with 100 trees. The role of judgment in 80/20. Apply 80/20 to Your Life Now in 3 Simple Steps. By Celes on Jan 11, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post This is the last part of a 3-part series on achieving more with less in your life using the 80/20 principle. If you look closely, 80/20 can be seen in action all around your life, your career, relationships, health, habits, goal achievement, productivity, emotions, and even daily life. Many people are already applying the 80/20 principle without even realizing it.
For example, do you try to cut away meaningless work at your workplace? Do you try to spend more time with people you enjoy being around? 3-Steps To Applying 80/20 In Living the 80/20 Way, Koch introduced a 3-step way to applying 80/20. 1. What are all your goals and dreams in this world? Now, start assessing them. I have a lot of long-term goals (you can find a few of my short-term goals for 2009 here. But I’m very clear on my 80/20 destination – it is to be a personal development educator so I can help others achieve their highest potential and live their best possible lives.
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