Is it worth upgrading your Canva Free account to Canva Pro? Is Canva for Teams a different thing? Is Canva Pro really free for Nonprofits & Schools? Updated March 10, 2025 So if you read my blog, you probably already know I’m a big fan of Canva. I have posts on creating logic models using […]
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Canva Slide Decks and Slide Docs
For the past 5 or so years Canva has been my go to tool for all sorts of everyday designs. This includes the presentations that I used to design in PowerPoint. Why Canva? Because I find the workflow easier. I can quickly adapt my presentations into other formats like videos or infographics. I also have […]
Report Like This, my new FREE masterclass.
I’ve been thinking about writing a new book, but while you wait on that, I created a free masterclass. Modern report design isn’t harder than the old way, it’s just different. In this free masterclass I’ll teach you my approach. The masterclass is short (it’s a single video course that’s under 15 minutes). I also […]
If you must use a PDF, at least make it widescreen.
My first piece of advice, stop using PDFs to share your reports. Now I know that 95% of you will not follow that advice. Even if PDFs are shown to be unfit for human consumption, they are still the status quo reporting tool for most organizations. (For the very few of you who will consider […]
Don’t panic! Just draw more cartoons.
Don’t Panic. When I was a kid, I remember really enjoying The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It was my kind of weird and short enough that kid me actually read the whole thing. In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide has already supplanted […]
You should build an audience, before you write your report.
Time for another report design mindset change. At the most basic level successful communication requires a sender, a message, and a receiver. You, as the report designer, are the sender. The report carries the message. So who is the receiver? For a lot of organizations the receiver is hypothetical. At least for those wishing to […]