So I’m kicking off a new series of cartoon Q&As. Basically I ask a few questions to practicing researchers, marketers, evaluators, designers, and communicators, then cartoon illustrate their answers. This week’s Q&A is with Shelbi Fanning who is the marketing manager at Cloud Giants, a Salesforce consultancy headquartered here in Durham, NC. How do you […]
Your ugly old confusing website is not your biggest problem.
So since I started as a freelance designer I have designed quite a few websites. But let me tell you a secret. Ready? Most people don’t need new websites. I don’t care how ugly, malfunctioning, confusing, or old the website, it’s probably not the thing that is going to make or break your business. If […]
Pixel Math, Charts, and Adobe XD
So on Wednesday of this week I held a webinar. The topic of the day was on using tools like Sketch and Adobe XD to design data visualization. As with most things I present that are new I end up getting the following question. Okay, you sold me, how do I start? I gave my […]


