How do you add alt text in Canva? Short answer, you don’t (Canva doesn’t have that feature). Long answer, read on for a workaround. As much as I love Canva for creating infographics and micrographics, as a website publishing tool (and a PDF creator) it is a failure. It’s missing some key features required to […]
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Agile for One
How do you manage all the stuff you need to do each day? In today’s post I’m going to walk through my indie consultant project management process, which I call Agile for One. I am a creative with an ADHD brain. If you have followed me for awhile that sentence will not be a surprise. […]
Reader-Focused Report Assessment
How do you tell a good report from a bad report? That’s what I hope you’ll be able to do with my new quick 2 page assessment. So a little while ago I created a resource, it was a short 18 page eBook that walked through a 6 step process. If you’re interested you can […]
Human Centered Report Design
Are you searching for a modern reporting strategy that leads to visual reports other human beings would actually appreciate? I wrote you an eBook. Here is what you’ll find inside the 35 page visual eBook. It’s a super easy picture book that should only take you a few minutes to get through. The Why Behind […]
Make Dissemination Easy
Sharing our work well takes skill and experience. But not every data person has these skills. Should they? Qualified to Do the Work ? Qualified to Share the Work The vast majority of PhD and MA programs are not going to give their students enough training around digital dissemination to make them experts in sharing […]
Designing a Seesaw Graph with Canva and Flourish [Walkthrough]
So welcome to a new series of blog posts. Each will be a type of design walkthrough. In these posts I will start with a chart or piece of information found in a real report and adapt it into something different (not always better, but always different). I’ll walk you through my design process as […]