Big news! I have an evaluation comics page now. So what does that actually mean? Over the last decade my comics used to live almost entirely within blog posts. For most of my cartooning life I’ve treated my cartooning as a form of blog post illustration. My cartoons were illustrations of ideas that were found […]
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Better Report Design or Faster Report Design? Pen and Paper Activity
So what’s better, creating one great report or ten good reports? In an ideal world we would have ample time to plan, write, develop, illustrate, test, and iterate our evaluation reports. But that’s likely not the professional world you occupy (and it’s certainly not the world I occupy). I decided to try out a little […]
How to design a research poster using Canva
Today’s post is about designing research poster presentations using Canva. Even if you’ve never created a research poster in your life, I think this post can really help you get a solid jump on your next design. Because ready or not, it’s happening. After a long COVID-19 break, a bunch of evaluation conferences are going […]
Color Theory, Color Wheels, Color Themes, Color Pickers, and More.
Gone are the days when all your reports were just in black and white. Sure, black and white is still cheaper to print, but color printers do exist. And who even prints anything anymore when most of what we read sits on a screen? It’s time to stop hiding from color. Luckily for us, there […]
Are they really demanding shorter reports, or just less to read?
So I had this idea in my head for a long time. Given how the web has fundamentally changed the way we design and share information, eventually the new design methods will work their way into the evaluation world. Reports will change because the context has changed. And organizations will demand more from those that […]
8 reasons why you should join my report design workshop community.
Before I was an information designer I was just a data guy. I learned to design because I got tired of seeing good evaluation work quickly fade into obscurity because it was poorly reported. Now my days are spent helping evaluators in large organizations simplify and modernize their reports. I created the DiY Data Design […]