Seriously, and I don’t mean after you’ve written several drafts. I really mean before you write. In today’s post. Most creativity happens inside the box. Why waiting till the end to design your report is a bad idea. Why designing first is a better idea. This is something I call reverse design. Introducing my FREE […]
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How to User Test a Report, Toolkit, or Dashboard (a.k.a. usability testing)
How do you know if a report, toolkit, or data dashboard works? If you’re like most organizations, you probably copyedit your reports and have multiple people read them through. But how often do you actually put your reports into your users’ hands? Today’s post is about usability testing, a.k.a. “how to assess if the thing […]
How to fall into evaluation – a cartoon post.
So what does it mean to “fall into evaluation?” That’s today’s cartoon post inspiration from Ann Price via Twitter. There are lots of social scientists working as evaluators. Unless you’re in academia it’s hard to be something like a Sociologist professionally. Practical fields like program evaluation and contract research offer a good career path for […]
UX Evaluation and Creative Reporting Webinars [Free Replays]
In early December I was given the opportunity to join The Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX) for a couple of Zoom webinars. And, if you’re interested, the replays for both are now live and free to watch. User Experience (UX) Evaluation I’ve embedded below, but you can also watch/download the slides for this webinar […]
Inform, Engage, Inspire, with data visualization.
Are you the kind of person who likes to nitpick other people’s charts? I’m really not. I wasn’t there when they decided to use that chart. I don’t know what factored into their decision. As far as their intended audience, I don’t know if anybody actually cares what chart gets chosen. So when a conversation […]
Who cares? And why engaging reports are not always important or even necessary.
So just the other day here in North Carolina, it was in the 70s. Short sleeve weather for sure. Then the rains came and the temperature dropped into the 30s over the course of hours. Enough for the rain to turn into snow, but not cold enough for it to stick to the ground. I […]