Sunday, August 8, 2010

Presenting complex information

Powerpoint's 'convert text into SmartArt' functionality, Excel's charts, graphs and pivot tables all encourage you to oversimplify the world, work, ideas, concepts, processes and experiences in a way that patronises and bores your audience.

Doogie Horner shows how infographics can be complex and intelligent – as well as funny – in his book Everything Explained Through Flowcharts which is published in October 2010.

After reading a few of his charts you can see that if you allow people to connect the dots themselves, they'll be much happier with your presentation.

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