When is your background slipping into the foreground? (c) DryIcons
In my last blog post, I discussed why most corporate presentation templates fail to meet the needs of PowerPoint users. Frequently, the people assigned to create these PowerPoint templates rarely use them, and as a result they fail to build “usable” templates.
In this article, I’ll focus on a key part of every corporate presentation template – the background. A key point I want to make is that PowerPoint templates are more than just backgrounds, but backgrounds can make or break corporate presentation templates. There are several considerations that go into designing the right background for your corporate template. Continue reading “Background Basics for Effective Corporate Templates”
, written by Dan Roam, is a bold effort at introducing business people to using visual thinking principles to solve problems and communicate more effectively. Visual thinking is something that I feel I excel at; however, I know it has been a challenge for many of my co-workers, managers, and clients. Even if you don’t struggle with visual thinking, I recommend The Back of the Napkin (four of five stars) as it provides a valuable set of processes and frameworks that can even benefit experienced visual thinkers, who probably operate more by intuition than methodology. 
