Archive | Nancy

I think about communication all the time. I have a couple of suggestions for communicating with your peers and clients with less friction. Specifically, when you choose:

• email subject lines
• names of files you share

Email Subject Lines

We all get emails with unhelpful subject lines. It’s pretty inefficient to have to open them and scan their contents to discover the intent of the sender.… MORE

I made this graphic years ago!

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Here are the five finalists! (There were four, but apparently it’s indecision time.)

I’ve come to recognize that I really, really want a specifically descriptive name — it has to say something about both visual design or graphics and explanation, comprehension, etc.… MORE

Please use the Comments section below to do virtual brainstorming. Explanagraphics is the temporary name of my repurposed business. I don’t like it much, but it will become the permanent name, unless I can friend-source some creativity.

NOTE: don’t overlook the two pages of comments (if you’d like to see others’ thoughts)!… MORE