http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/Presentations A listing of the most recently indexed works about Design and Presentations in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/Presentations http://tc.eserver.org/35793.html http://tc.eserver.org/35793.html What is SxD? Design of social media. It involves all web design disciplines: User Interface, Interaction design, Experience design, and Information Architecture. Social media include networked applications that permit direct and indirect, private and public communication and interaction. Social media platforms may be computer-based or mobile, even game platforms. http://tc.eserver.org/35768.html http://tc.eserver.org/35768.html Windows Presentation Foundation is a cross-browser cross-platform cross-device implementation of .NET for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. http://tc.eserver.org/35769.html http://tc.eserver.org/35769.html Which pages have the search engines crawled? What kind of pages are they? Has the search engine Indexing indexed all of the crawled pages? How’s the search engine ranking traffic? http://tc.eserver.org/35770.html http://tc.eserver.org/35770.html SharePoint can neither create nor destroy organizational chaos, but does an excellent job of reflecting the level of organizational chaos that existed at the time of deployment. The “SharePoint paradox” and paths to SharePoint wickedness. The power of Issue Mapping and IBIS based collaboration. How to leverage the best of SharePoint and Issue Mapping. http://tc.eserver.org/35557.html http://tc.eserver.org/35557.html Laying out your poster on a grid establishes limitations for your poster. Choosing a font establishes limitations for your poster. Being conservative in your design choices establishes limitations. Working within limits requires discipline. Setting yourself limitations does not necessarily limit creativity; it can do just the opposite. http://tc.eserver.org/35558.html http://tc.eserver.org/35558.html Academics use posters to present research, but their posters are often ugly, with tiny text, confusing layouts, and dubious colour schemes. Better Posters is about making posters informative and beautiful. http://tc.eserver.org/35559.html http://tc.eserver.org/35559.html If you look through a poster session at a scientific conference, I’ll bet over 98% of their titles are centered at the top of their posters. Why? There is no advantage in reading. Most word processors and other publishing programs start with text left aligned by default, which implies that people deliberately center the text all the time. http://tc.eserver.org/35561.html http://tc.eserver.org/35561.html It looks like the opening (quoted above) overreaches what the study actually does. The research only looks at backgrounds, but “chart junk” comes in many other forms: pointless 3-D effects, crazy colour schemes, excessive gridlines, cutesy cartoons, and more. The summary of this research in no way provides a scientific basis to argue, “I like the 3-D effect, and science supports it’s easier to read!” http://tc.eserver.org/35562.html http://tc.eserver.org/35562.html I stumbled upon this poster while reading the blog Anna’s Bones. She described as being finished “just in the nick of time.” A few more hours, and a stronger editorial hand, probably would have been welcomed. http://tc.eserver.org/35563.html http://tc.eserver.org/35563.html A poster can be better than giving a talk. It’s just an illustrated abstract. http://tc.eserver.org/35564.html http://tc.eserver.org/35564.html Because many researchers use PowerPoint for their talks and lectures, they also tend to use it for every graphic problem, including posters. Predictably, the form of the resulting posters often look like nothing more than a series of ugly PowerPoint slides tacked together. A poster is more like a whiteboard than slides. But because many researchers give more presentations than posters, they’re not used to thinking in terms of a big space, viewed all at once, instead of a series of small spaces, viewed one at a time. http://tc.eserver.org/35565.html http://tc.eserver.org/35565.html As discussed recently, many people use PowerPoint to design posters, an act that borders on criminal. PowerPoint was designed for multiple projected images with minimal text, not one large image with complex text and graphics. People use PowerPoint because it’s the only thing remotely resembling a graphics software that people are familiar with. Microsoft Office simply doesn’t have a good, high end graphics component. Publisher comes close. OpenOffice does have a graphics component, simply called Draw. If you are not willing to shell out the big bucks generally required of a professional graphics software package, Draw has several features in its favour. http://tc.eserver.org/35566.html http://tc.eserver.org/35566.html I have used Microsoft Publisher a lot for posters. I’m going to show three easy things that Publisher does well that are useful when making a conference poster. http://tc.eserver.org/35450.html http://tc.eserver.org/35450.html How can user-centered design principles be applied to technical communication? http://tc.eserver.org/35440.html http://tc.eserver.org/35440.html Community is discussions, people, passion, alignment, emergent, support, connections, and relationships. http://tc.eserver.org/35431.html http://tc.eserver.org/35431.html This presentation is for beginning to intermediate users of DITA. It's based on my experience with projects on which I'm project manager, information architect, and writer. http://tc.eserver.org/35435.html http://tc.eserver.org/35435.html What does structured authoring mean to you? Structured authoring is a publishing workflow that lets you define and enforce consistent organization of information in documents, whether printed or online. What it means to me: defining a goal and assembling architected topics to help the reader achieve that goal. http://tc.eserver.org/35396.html http://tc.eserver.org/35396.html A presentation which shows examples of best-practices in web design for accessibility to users who interact with sites exclusively through the keyboard. http://tc.eserver.org/35333.html http://tc.eserver.org/35333.html How closely does the content in your CMS resemble the logical content you planned on? # Different systems have vastly different content modeling. http://tc.eserver.org/34981.html http://tc.eserver.org/34981.html As digital cameras have become ubiquitous, and cheap (or free) photo websites plentiful, more people than ever are using images in presentations. Images are not appropriate for every kind of talk, but even when images are appropriate (such as keynote/ballroom style presentations), people are still making the same common mistakes. So here are some things to keep in mind if you use images in your next talk. http://tc.eserver.org/34971.html http://tc.eserver.org/34971.html Below are 10 things (plus a bonus tip) that I have learned over the years from designers, things that designers do or know that the rest of us can benefit from. http://tc.eserver.org/34722.html http://tc.eserver.org/34722.html DITA maps provide a mechanism for ordering topics and creating a topic hierarchy. Because DITA maps consist of lists of references to topics, you can reorganize the content in a deliverable simply by changing the order of the topic references. You can create different maps referencing the same source topics to create two deliverables to meet different users' needs. http://tc.eserver.org/34648.html http://tc.eserver.org/34648.html When we as web designers create screens we are defi http://tc.eserver.org/34504.html http://tc.eserver.org/34504.html This presentation describes how creating an accessible website takes care of its (organic) search engine optimization to a very appreciable extent taking reference from the WCAG 2.0 working draft and the Google webmaster guidelines.This presentation was created and presented by Abhay Rautela to the Sapient creative community at the New Delhi office in February 2007. http://tc.eserver.org/34421.html http://tc.eserver.org/34421.html DITA enters a new phase this year with version 1.2. We'll learn about the big new features, such as keyref, and see them used in the latest DITA Open Toolkit. Attendees will know how to make use of new DITA 1.2 features using the DITA Open Toolkit. Attendees will understand key aspects of the new DITA 1.2 standard. http://tc.eserver.org/34376.html http://tc.eserver.org/34376.html People are doing business differently today; the intranet of yesterday is not sustainable. Make your intranet work the way people work. http://tc.eserver.org/34283.html http://tc.eserver.org/34283.html You will not draw any slides—in fact do not even launch PowerPoint—until step eight, 80% of the way through the process. Typically, when you want to create a presentation, you open PowerPoint and start creating slides. Slide one, slide two, … slide seventeen… what I am trying to say again? Am I making my point? http://tc.eserver.org/34275.html http://tc.eserver.org/34275.html Xquery is a powerful query language designed specifically for XML content. It can be used for querying, processing, manipulation, and transformation of xml content. This presentation demonstrates how Xquery can be used to add to the feature set of the Dita Open Toolkit by introducing automatic glossary processing. http://tc.eserver.org/34106.html http://tc.eserver.org/34106.html An interactive presentation of a variety of visualization techniques used by graphic designers, technical illustrators and document designers to convey information. http://tc.eserver.org/34047.html http://tc.eserver.org/34047.html Get creative. Expand your font choice. Mix fonts. Use weights, font-styles, small-caps. Mind variations in size and legibility. http://tc.eserver.org/34040.html http://tc.eserver.org/34040.html An explanation of the logic behind the new FrameMaker interface and a tour of how it works. http://tc.eserver.org/34014.html http://tc.eserver.org/34014.html Talks about the importance of usability for businesses communicating with both new and potential customers. Featuring a case study of how a company improved their revenue-per-employee by 95% over a 2 year period, along with some attendee participation, this 17 minute presentation touches on a wide variety of websites and activities, such as lead generation sites, information portals and search engine marketing campaigns. Most significantly conversion rates for e-commerce websites are discussed, where usability can have a remarkable affect on a companies bottom line, if the right decisions are made in making improvements. http://tc.eserver.org/33924.html http://tc.eserver.org/33924.html Our templates are free and we do not offer any kind of support for our templates. You are responsible for editing and modifying the downloaded templates, backgrounds or products. http://tc.eserver.org/33803.html http://tc.eserver.org/33803.html This presentation is a 90 minute session. It will cover many areas of XML and XML technologies. It has been constructed to provide the audience a broad understanding of XML and XML technologies in a short amount of time. The presentation is geared to ensure that new XML users can obtain the maximum benefit from other sessions presented at XML 2004. The attendees will gain an understanding of XML jargon and acronyms used in XML technologies, as well. http://tc.eserver.org/33805.html http://tc.eserver.org/33805.html Several Web service discovery technologies including Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MEX) and other lightweight protocols and techniques can be used for particular scenarios. This presentation will discuss the status of each of these technologies and how they relate to the Web services stack as well as which technology should be employed to solve certain types of Web service integration problems. http://tc.eserver.org/33737.html http://tc.eserver.org/33737.html In the evolving and demanding world of telecommunications, Tellabs supports telecom service providers with the design, development, and deployment of wireline, wireless , and cable solutions worldwide. But with each unique solution deployment requires knowledge transfer from engineers to field service staff to ensure a smooth system upgrade. Learn how Tellabs' New Product Introduction group used DITA to transition to customer-centric writing. *What are the key things the organization as a whole should keep in mind regarding processes?" http://tc.eserver.org/33705.html http://tc.eserver.org/33705.html This webcast is for those publishers who have made the decision to pursue digital channels for their content. What tools are out there? What do all those acronyms mean? How can publishers implement new strategies without disrupting current workflows? Here we explore the alphabet soup of digital publishing, sort out the tools that are most useful, and help publishers find some solid ground. http://tc.eserver.org/33571.html http://tc.eserver.org/33571.html Photo albums from previous presentations of Games To Explain Human Factors. http://tc.eserver.org/33442.html http://tc.eserver.org/33442.html The information architect focuses on how things are structured within the user experience: looks “up” to the user interface – how the navigation and page layout convey the structure; looks “down” to the content management to make sure it can enable to right user experience. http://tc.eserver.org/33432.html http://tc.eserver.org/33432.html We love stories, recognise patterns in fractions of a second and have a set of highly developed social behaviours. In "Persuasive Design" Mike will be running through a collection of these hard-wired influence points and exploring how they can be used in the design of products, interfaces and experiences. http://tc.eserver.org/33237.html http://tc.eserver.org/33237.html Discover what "faceted browsing" is and other Web-focused terms for old ideas. http://tc.eserver.org/33205.html http://tc.eserver.org/33205.html Research on breadcrumbs as presented at the 3rd Annual Information Architecture Summit. Three types of breadcrumbs used on the Web are defined, examples given, and a set of research questions is presented. http://tc.eserver.org/33031.html http://tc.eserver.org/33031.html Information about objects on subjects - metadata describes objects. Purposes: Information management and discovery. Metadata enables content to be retreived, tracked, and assembled automatically. http://tc.eserver.org/33041.html http://tc.eserver.org/33041.html Why do we add metadata? To find information back. To investigate the source. To see what is related. To have an overview AND see what is relevant. http://tc.eserver.org/32889.html http://tc.eserver.org/32889.html In this presentation, the authors report on a survey and testing with screen reader users designed to determine how the placement of navigation in the source order (before or after content) affects accessibility. http://tc.eserver.org/32893.html http://tc.eserver.org/32893.html The following is what has been collectively pulled-through as the main points from Ella Tallyn's and Jon Pettigrew's respective presentations. These points should serve as introductory guidelines for UCD with children. http://tc.eserver.org/32947.html http://tc.eserver.org/32947.html Building designs with CSS is no longer a fringe activity practiced by standards geeks and early-adopters. Creative pioneers and highly skilled designers are bringing CSS to the mainstream. The explosion in popularity is ushering in a new wave of possibilities for web design. CSS provides greater design control, allows more flexibility, and enables sites to become attractive, accessible, and faster-loading, all at the same time. http://tc.eserver.org/32948.html http://tc.eserver.org/32948.html What do you do when you feel like you’ve hit a brick wall? When it seems your creativity is limited by how much CSS you know how to beat into submission? How do you resist the temptation to give it all up and go back to tables? Why does it feel like the pros are constantly inventing new techniques each week, when you’re still struggling to keep up with the stuff you read about last year? Understanding how and where CSS fits into the design process is key to knowing how to push your own limits. Reviewing the principles of existing techniques — and learning why or how they came about — can extend your capabilities and help you gain confidence in solving future problems on your own. http://tc.eserver.org/32686.html http://tc.eserver.org/32686.html Conversation is a theme that flows through all the work we do as technical communicators. Every use of your web site is a conversation started by a busy site visitor. http://tc.eserver.org/32544.html http://tc.eserver.org/32544.html A PowerPoint of a presentation about podcasting, and the things to consider when planning to produce an audio podcast. http://tc.eserver.org/32265.html http://tc.eserver.org/32265.html More accessible documents through authoring tool supports. Exploit mainstream tools for easier information retrieval and document manipulation. http://tc.eserver.org/32252.html http://tc.eserver.org/32252.html An online guide that explains color theory and shows how to use it in design through examples and exercises. http://tc.eserver.org/31761.html http://tc.eserver.org/31761.html The key methods you can employ to create effective presentation slides. http://tc.eserver.org/31756.html http://tc.eserver.org/31756.html XML purports to be a simple, vendor-neutral textual external representation for hierarchically-structured data. But... http://tc.eserver.org/31492.html http://tc.eserver.org/31492.html I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc. http://tc.eserver.org/30889.html http://tc.eserver.org/30889.html The tutorial introduces the reader accustomed to working with the traditional graphic user interface in earlier versions of VB to Windows Presentation Foundation. Importantly, it introduces the reader to the XAML's declarative format and what it means in the design interface of VS 2008. WPF can do a great deal more than what is described in this article. The power of markup extensions such as declarative binding, dynamic resource, template binding and many others are not discussed. It is hoped that the reader will be up and running WPF projects based on his previous experience after reading this article. http://tc.eserver.org/30367.html http://tc.eserver.org/30367.html Established in 2005, KnowGenesis Online Library for Technical Communication (www.knowgenesis.org/tc) is India's first online repository dedicated to accelerate knowledge sharing and promote self-learning in the field of technical communication. The library is available free of cost and require one time free registration to access the available material. The popularity and success rate of the library can be determined by the fact that within a year of its launch, it not only attracted more than 24000 visitors and gained more than 1500 subscribers, but also increased the volume of the hosted content from few documents to more than 2000 important documents, presentations, tutorials and links. KnowGenesis library presents a unique case for repository designers to study the complex design and implementation process that contributed to the stability and overall success rate of the online library. This paper not only shares the designing and implementation challenges faced by the knowgenesis team, but also presents the approach used to match the user requirements with the library design. Based on the lessons learned during the process, the paper also presents specific set of guidelines and recommends methodologies that can provide critical assistance for developing and managing medium and large scale repositories http://tc.eserver.org/30193.html http://tc.eserver.org/30193.html One hundred and one tips for designing digital forms using Adobe Acrobat. http://tc.eserver.org/29534.html http://tc.eserver.org/29534.html A look at how to quantify or measure the benefits of a better user interface built with Ajax. http://tc.eserver.org/29535.html http://tc.eserver.org/29535.html An overview of web design methods, including a survey of questions one should ask during the process. http://tc.eserver.org/29536.html http://tc.eserver.org/29536.html By utilizing techniques and design principles that support flow, small screen interfaces can further increase user satisfaction and minimize the sense of time on task. Lesson methods include 'Using progressive disclosure' and 'Balancing Visual and Structural Simplicity.' http://tc.eserver.org/29537.html http://tc.eserver.org/29537.html Includes three parts--the current state of practitioner user-centred design, an overview of some of the things practitioners are interested in, and an examination of what we need to do to move forward. http://tc.eserver.org/29533.html http://tc.eserver.org/29533.html Web developers, designers and community managers have a more challenging role than ever before. They are designing for and facilitating important online activities like communication, collaboration, sharing and socializing. However, it's hard to know how users are really interacting with websites. They can't easily observe users in their natural environments interacting with these systems. How many web developers actually get a focus group of target users in a room and watch them navigate their websites? We're obsessed with helping developers build better user experiences on the web, and we knew there had to be a better, cheaper and faster way than traditional usability testing. http://tc.eserver.org/29525.html http://tc.eserver.org/29525.html The Semantic Web is coming and it's bringing major changes to the ways that people create, manage, deliver, consume, and share technical information. This session introduces Web 2.0 and its tools and technologies, and examines how they are changing the landscape of technical communication. Discover how Web 2.0 methods make it possible to deliver "content as a service" and to empower customers to personalize technical content in useful and exciting new ways. http://tc.eserver.org/29513.html http://tc.eserver.org/29513.html A scientific poster is a large document that can communicate your research at a scientific meeting, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your trendy experimental approach, your amazing results, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others. If all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 10 minutes. http://tc.eserver.org/29511.html http://tc.eserver.org/29511.html An effective poster is not just a standard research paper stuck to a board. A poster uses a different, visual grammar. It shows, not tells. http://tc.eserver.org/29512.html http://tc.eserver.org/29512.html Many of your presentations are not talks; they are posters. Are your posters effective? Do they attract enthusiastic audiences? Or, do they attract only competitors? This presentation shows both positive and negative examples to help you increase your clarity and impact. http://tc.eserver.org/29514.html http://tc.eserver.org/29514.html Dissemination of research findings and effective clinical innovations is key to the growth and development of the nursing profession. Several avenues exist for the dissemination of information. One forum for communication that has gained increased recognition over the past decade is the poster presentation. Poster presentations are often a significant part of regional, national, and international nursing conferences. Although posters are frequently used to disseminate information to the nursing community, little is reported about actual poster presenters' experiences with preparation and presentation of their posters. The purpose of this article is to present insights derived from information shared by poster presenters regarding the poster preparation and presentation process. Such insights derived from the personal experiences of poster presenters may assist others to efficiently and effectively prepare and present scholarly posters that disseminate information to the nursing community. http://tc.eserver.org/29516.html http://tc.eserver.org/29516.html Poster sessions are frequently used as a means to convey information in a brief format (typically 4' x 8') in classrooms, conferences and symposia, and workshops. Designing effective poster presentations is an art unto itself. This guide provides resources to make the process easier. http://tc.eserver.org/29331.html http://tc.eserver.org/29331.html Recently, much criticism has arisen about the design of slides created with Microsoft PowerPoint. This web page challenges PowerPoint's default design of a single word or short phrase headline supported by a bullet list. Rather than subscribing to Microsoft's topic-subtopic design for slides, this web page advocates an assertion-evidence design, which serves presentations that have the purpose of informing and persuading audiences about technical content. http://tc.eserver.org/28824.html http://tc.eserver.org/28824.html How do you review a product for usability, but make that review user-centered? http://tc.eserver.org/28826.html http://tc.eserver.org/28826.html Technical editing is like information architecture. As technical editors, we complete development edits and usability edits to ensure organization, labeling, navigation and search meet the users' needs. As information architects, we are involved with "the design of organization, labeling, navigation, and searching systems to help people find and manage information more successfully." http://tc.eserver.org/28809.html http://tc.eserver.org/28809.html What are hazards and why do we need them? Best practices for key elements of hazards. http://tc.eserver.org/28797.html http://tc.eserver.org/28797.html In this podcast, Karen Bachmann, manager of the Usability and User Experience SIG, provides an overview of the user-centered design process. This is part one of a two part series. http://tc.eserver.org/28753.html http://tc.eserver.org/28753.html This is presentation Keith Hoffman gave on writing and Web 2.0 at the University of Wisconsin. If you recall, Keith wrote the feature article in January's Intercom on Web 2.0. http://tc.eserver.org/28735.html http://tc.eserver.org/28735.html If engineers and technical professionals would adopt this assertion-evidence design for presentations in which slides are the appropriate medium, the effectiveness of those presentations would increase significantly. http://tc.eserver.org/28638.html http://tc.eserver.org/28638.html If you have ever wondered why your eyes start glazing over as you read those dot points on the screen, as the same words are being spoken, take heart in knowing there is a scientific explanation. It is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time. http://tc.eserver.org/27686.html http://tc.eserver.org/27686.html Shadow Fighter is a PowerPoint Movie. An animated show or movie done in PowerPoint mimicking the style of Arcade Fighting games. Shadow Fighter Series will show you how PowerPoint can do extreme complex animations similar to Macromedia Flash! http://tc.eserver.org/27683.html http://tc.eserver.org/27683.html Applying culture to user-experience design theory and practice. http://tc.eserver.org/27592.html http://tc.eserver.org/27592.html Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can’t yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now. http://tc.eserver.org/27495.html http://tc.eserver.org/27495.html A presentation about online community and experience design in modern web design. http://tc.eserver.org/27392.html http://tc.eserver.org/27392.html Get the flavor of an Expert Review as Dr. Schaffer points out the strengths and weaknesses of 11 award-winning Web sites. http://tc.eserver.org/27387.html http://tc.eserver.org/27387.html Discusses how Anthem attained the training, standards, and resources they needed to create a sustained usability effort. http://tc.eserver.org/27393.html http://tc.eserver.org/27393.html Discusses the effect of drop-off and how usability initiatives reduced drop-off at Staples.com by 73%. This discussion begins with a definition of drop-off and moves into an explanation of the value of drop-off data. Then we delve into the correlation between drop-off and return on investment. Finally, we highlight two examples of Staples.com initiatives that were focused on reducing drop-off by using a systematic process of customer research and redesign. http://tc.eserver.org/27383.html http://tc.eserver.org/27383.html Jerome and Giovanni explain why efficient access to knowledge is essential for global business operations. Giovanni discusses how his company realized its systems needed improvement – and why user-centered design proved to be the appropriate solution. This empirical approach to interface design/architecture enables effective business decisions. http://tc.eserver.org/27391.html http://tc.eserver.org/27391.html Discuss their initiative to make user-centered design a central part of RBC Royal Bank's Online Banking. http://tc.eserver.org/27389.html http://tc.eserver.org/27389.html The practices and processes that facilitate the organizational development needed to create a successful Web design standard. http://tc.eserver.org/26943.html http://tc.eserver.org/26943.html Men and women don't browse the Web the same way; one should design for both feminine and masculine webs. http://tc.eserver.org/26944.html http://tc.eserver.org/26944.html There are problems with non-user-centered/system-centered design. We must know, understand, and work with actual users so that the people who use the product can do so quickly and easily to accomplish their own tasks. http://tc.eserver.org/26945.html http://tc.eserver.org/26945.html The integration of technology into education includes increased educational Internet and web use. However the websites used in and for education are rarely critically examined, especially in regard to gender equality, design, and use. Print has been argued to carry with it certain attributes that disturb gender equality, so it is likely that electronic writing might cause similar problems. http://tc.eserver.org/26869.html http://tc.eserver.org/26869.html These Free Powerpoint Templates are a great choice for a wide variety of presentation needs. http://tc.eserver.org/26539.html http://tc.eserver.org/26539.html A 2001 presentation by Robert Reimann and Jodi Forlizzi titled Interaction Designers: What We Are, What We Do, & What We Need to Know (ppt) provides a good overview of interaction design. http://tc.eserver.org/26541.html http://tc.eserver.org/26541.html Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, and Chanel Wheeler presented their work creating a pattern library for Yahoo! at IA Summit 2005. http://tc.eserver.org/26457.html http://tc.eserver.org/26457.html The traditional design of presentation slides calls for a phrase headline supported by a bulleted list. Recently, many critics have challenged the effectiveness of this design. This article argues for a significantly different design that offers numerous advantages in most communication contexts but that is particularly well suited to technical presentations. Originating at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and refined in more than 400 critique sessions at Virginia Tech, this alternative design is characterized by a succinct sentence headline supported by visual evidence. What distinguishes this design from other visual -evidence designs are its specific layout and typography guidelines, which were chosen to make the communication efficient, memorable, and persuasive. Although more difficult to construct than the traditional design, the alternative design shows much promise as a more effective means of conveying technical information to various audiences. 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These guidelines and some of the analysis are based on more than 150 in-depth discussions of slides I have conducted with engineers, scientists, executives, and other professionals at workshops. http://tc.eserver.org/24481.html http://tc.eserver.org/24481.html The Dreamweaver Timeline uses layers and JavaScript to create animation and interactivity. To create a series of rotating images, prepare each image at the same size in a graphics program first (i.e., Photoshop, Fireworks, ImageReady, etc.). Then insert a layer on the page. This layer will serve as a placeholder for the rotating images. http://tc.eserver.org/23933.html http://tc.eserver.org/23933.html There's a lot of bragging on the Internet about how big it is, how much information the Web has to offer. I ran across a discussion group posting a while back where the moderator announced that one of the search engines had indexed 9 billion words. 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