In this series of blog posts I will share examples of professionally designed modern reports. For each report I’ll also write out a list of things to notice. My goal is not to critique but to show you real life examples of design concepts to help you become a better report designer. This week I […]
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Report Study – Goalkeepers 2022
In this series of blog posts I will share examples of professionally designed modern reports. For each report I’ll also write out a list of things to notice. My goal is not to critique but to show you real life examples of design concepts to help you become a better report designer. First up, the […]
Stop trying to create Goldilocks reports.
You know the story of Goldilocks and the three bears? Little girl breaks into the house of three bears while they’re out for a walk. Then proceeds to eat their food, break one of their chairs, and eventually falls asleep in one of their beds. The story came to mind when I was thinking about […]
Access is NOT a Vanity Metric
Do you ever think about the amount of work that goes into a conference presentation? How many hours do people spend planning their conference proposal, meeting with collaborators, putting together their presentation (or poster), traveling to the event, and then eventually presenting? And then they complain that having a blog would take too much of […]
Reporting is a Conversation
Do you remember the early days of social media? Back then there were a lot of bloggers, marketers, and other digital communicators talking about how social media platforms were conversational. Less broadcasting, more back and forth. For whatever reason, in the research and evaluation reporting world, that message never really stuck. We still broadcast our […]
6 Big Reasons to Ditch the PDF Report
Still delivering your final report as a PDF? You’re definitely NOT alone. The PDF final report is still very much status quo in the research and evaluation worlds. But I think it’s time we move on. We give too much up when we choose to use PDFs for our reports. And the features we give […]