Threads, Tufte, and pretty presentations
Posted by ureadit
on 3/12/2005
ureadit
3/12/2005 1:21 am
1. Our threads are quite frayed.
2. Tufte writes wonderful books. I have two. I also have taken one or two of his classes. Unfortunately, in person, he will brook no opinion other than his own.
3. Managers, for the most part, like to see pretty presentations with not much detail. I liken these presentations to medieval manuscripts which the monks beautifully illuminated so that their royal, but illiterate, patrons had something to show off to their fellow royalty.
4. I retire in lessb than two weeks.
2. Tufte writes wonderful books. I have two. I also have taken one or two of his classes. Unfortunately, in person, he will brook no opinion other than his own.
3. Managers, for the most part, like to see pretty presentations with not much detail. I liken these presentations to medieval manuscripts which the monks beautifully illuminated so that their royal, but illiterate, patrons had something to show off to their fellow royalty.
4. I retire in lessb than two weeks.
sub
3/12/2005 4:10 am
[Steve C.: Our threads are quite frayed]
Come to think of it, the Userland Content Management System does provide us with a Response Subject independent of the initial Topic, which is still available to maintain the thread.
So, from now on, I declare that I will use Response Subjects relevant to the content of my postings.
:-)
alx
Come to think of it, the Userland Content Management System does provide us with a Response Subject independent of the initial Topic, which is still available to maintain the thread.
So, from now on, I declare that I will use Response Subjects relevant to the content of my postings.
:-)
alx
sub
3/21/2005 2:01 pm
[Steve C.: Managers, for the most part, like to see pretty presentations with not much detail. I liken these presentations to medieval manuscripts which the monks beautifully illuminated so that their royal, but illiterate, patrons had something to show off to their fellow royalty.]
Following Derek's suggestion I read Tufte's excellent diatribe against Powerpoint; in fact, I bought the printed version. I quote from there: "PP slides projected up on the wall are very low resolution -compared to paper, 35mm slides, and the immensely greater capacities of the human eye-brain system."
I think this goes for software generated mind maps as well, compared to their hand-drawn counterparts; it's the reason that, while I've maintained their use for presentations, I have turned back to outliners for information management.
I found myself using up most of my screen area for a navigation diagram and only having the bottom area available for writing --the actual work I wanted to focus on.
Contrast this with a two-pane outliner, whose navigation pane only requires the leftmost column while the main area is reserved for the job at hand.
No Holy Grail here then, is there?
alx
Following Derek's suggestion I read Tufte's excellent diatribe against Powerpoint; in fact, I bought the printed version. I quote from there: "PP slides projected up on the wall are very low resolution -compared to paper, 35mm slides, and the immensely greater capacities of the human eye-brain system."
I think this goes for software generated mind maps as well, compared to their hand-drawn counterparts; it's the reason that, while I've maintained their use for presentations, I have turned back to outliners for information management.
I found myself using up most of my screen area for a navigation diagram and only having the bottom area available for writing --the actual work I wanted to focus on.
Contrast this with a two-pane outliner, whose navigation pane only requires the leftmost column while the main area is reserved for the job at hand.
No Holy Grail here then, is there?
alx