Earlier this week I got on the phone with David McCandless, author of The Visual Miscellaneum, his new book of visualizations of ‘the world’s most consequential trivia”. During the conversation we discussed how the idea for the book came about, his creative process and whole other host of topics. Perhaps the most interesting thing that I learned in the conversation is that a couple of years ago David wouldn’t have considered himself a designer – …

Tomorrow, November 17th, I’ll be hopping on the phone with David McCandless to discuss his new book The Visual Miscellaneum,  a beautiful collection of the “world’s most consequential data” in visual form. I got my hands on the book late last week and have spent the past few days flipping back and forth through it and so far am very impressed – It really is an stunning collection of visuals and something I think every VizThinker would …

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 book on making presentations simpler, clearer and more effective. His website www.presentationzen.com is also a good resource to keep an eye on.
Back of the Napkin
At …

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 event and we’ll be telling you more about all of those in the coming weeks. We’re bringing back 10-12 of your favorite facilitators with all …

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 approval, or provide a progress update which should cover just about every front line manager and above in an organization.  I’m not alone in my …

One of the benefits of working at VizThink is that we get to read advanced copies of books by the many smart people in our industry.  Some are better than others, but none compare to the next book on our list.  Nancy Duarte has just released her new book, slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations which packages 20 years of experience at Duarte Design into a handy tool that promises to “revoloutionize presentation communications”, …

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. You can access it through the link above or through the new “store” tab in the main navigation of our site.
In it you’ll find our …

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 there so many bad forms?
What are some of the common mistakes web form designers make?
What are the Top 3 tips for improving web forms?
Why do …

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 our recent VizThink event in San Francisco. 

I wish I could say that a book like this wasn’t necessary because every website used good design principles …

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 Ideas with Pictures.  For your convenience, we’ve divided up the 59 minute and 12 second podcast into 3 digestable segments.
In this first 29 minute, 30 …