Archive for the ‘Book Review’ Category

2008 Was a Great Year for Visual Communication Books

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

As Amazon starts to publish their Top of 2008 lists for the year it's great to see a couple of Visual Thinking oriented books show up on the "Best Business & Investing" list: Presentation Zen At #3 on the Customer's Favorites list is Garr Reynold's "Presentation Zen", his wildly-popular and highly regarded ...

Announcing: Jim Haudan at VizThink ‘09

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

While we're still wrapping up VizThink Europe '08, it's time to begin launching VizThink '09 in San Jose. Today is the first in a series of posts that will announce the incredible lineup of facilitators we have planned for San Jose. We've got lots of great things planned for this ...

Book Review: slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

slide:ology is one of my favorite business books of the year so far, and, yes, it is a business book.  In fact, I think it should be the top of any business person's reading list.  If you ever have to present an idea, pitch a product, sell a service, get ...

Now Open: The VizThink Store

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Missed out on a book at the conference earlier this year? New to the Visual Thinking space and wondering where to start? Just need a new book to read this weekend? We've got an announcement for you... VizThink Store is Now Open We're pleased to announce the addition of the VizThink Store to our website. ...

Podcast #12 - Luke Wroblewski on Web Form Design

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Today is the launch of Luke Wroblewski's new book, Web Form Design. For a review of the book, check out our recent blog post. During the podcast, Luke answers a variety of questions such as: Why web form design is important If form design is everywhere and easy, why are ...

Web Form Design with Luke Wroblewski

Monday, April 28th, 2008

It's time for another book review.  Releasing later this week is Luke Wroblewski's latest book, Web Form Design.  Not surprisingly, the book is about how to design good forms for websites.  Luke is an author, the Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc, and was a facilitatorat ...

Book Review: Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Over the next 12 months, there are a number of new books coming out related to visual thinking many of which are from facilitators at our most recent conference.  The first of these is from Dan Roam and his new book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling ...

The Back of the Napkin

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

One of the things that became apparent while planning VizThink in San Francisco is that the visual thinking world is about to explode again with a number of  new books in various stages of development.  There are books providing an overview of the entire visual thinking space, books on visual language itself, and, of course, ...