How to Get Your Boss's Boss to Understand

Remember to use a guiding graphic on your next big project and with every big presentation!

Professional design tools like Canva are essential for effective communication.

Use shading, borders, and other formatting options to visually group related cells without merging.

Human-centered images help to bridge the gap between complex information and real-world applications.

The Trump assassination attempt provides several good examples related to the FINESSE fishbone diagram and the I in FINESSE.

The I in FINESSE stands for Illustrate. Illustrate includes all the visuals, graphics, videos, and other media used in technical reports...

This 3-part series on improving data visualization was inspired first by Microsoft Excel and second by Edward Tufte. Tufte is the guru of...

Using the Data Validation feature in Excel improves visualizations by ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Using the...

The data-to-ink ratio is a helpful way to create powerful graphics. Simultaneously, your graphics also become more accessible. And if you...

Scatter diagrams, matrices, histograms, pie charts, and box and whiskers diagrams are included in "graphics to use with caution" when...

Decision makers will give you about 10 minutes of attention. You do not have the time to explain complex visuals. Keep it concise with...

A table is a systematic arrangement of data. Graphs are simply a concise method for depicting large amounts of data. The central issue in...

Fortune gets it right! In its annual publication of Fortune 500 companies, Fortune correctly used two-dimensional shapes (circles) to...

I was recently wandering around the lobby at Grand Strand Medical Center when I suddenly ran into an oversized bulletin board. I expected...