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Name: slide:ology
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Author: Nancy Duarte

slide:ology explains why the majority of business presentations fail to move people, and teaches readers how to think and design visually. Drawing on her experience as President and CEO of Duarte Design and her work on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Duarte offers practical approaches to visual story development. The book blends theory with case studies from leading brands and covers concrete techniques such as sketching, diagramming, and the strategic use of presentation technology to make graphics that are both informative and memorable.

First publish date: 2008

Genre: Arts & Culture/Graphic Design

Authors: Nancy Duarte

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