Design Thinking

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Contents 1 PowerPoint 2 Online reading and resources 3 Royalty free images 4 Slideshare.net presentations 5 Interesting interface elements 6 Commoncraft Productions 7 Brand and design 8 worth a read

PowerPoint

• PowerPoint Ninja - an online book on using PowerPoint for print which Neil and Matthew are putting together. Formative at the moment with images and polishing to come...
• Death by PowerPoint slideshare
• The famous Lincoln address as PowerPoint slides

Keynote in iWork from Apple

For a great resource, see Presentation Zen, and the presentations delivered by Steve Jobs, which you can find at Apple

• Businessweek story about the Jobs magic
• Presentation Zen analysis
• Apple archive of the master

Online reading and resources

• Brilliant news reporting graphics
• Edward Tufte
• Using everyday tools to produce quality charts
• A history of the office interface - the good, the bad, and the research pane
• A great overview of web2.0 desing
• Many-eyes.com provides some innovative ways of displaying data sets. My favourite is the bubble chart.
• visual thinking wiki

Royalty free images

scx.hu a superlative resource for free, high quality images.

A good review of available sites

Slideshare.net presentations

Adaptive interfaces

All about grids - awesome

The apple story

Interesting interface elements

Accordian panels on the redesigned Apple website. See the left and right panels.

Wonderful validation approach for new user form on netvibes and the interface elements used for editing the widgets on the pages.

Google suggest

CNNs timeline widget

Widgets from MIT

Commoncraft Productions

A whiteboard and paper-cutout approach to presentations "in plain english". They have videos on social networking, RSS, wikis and social bookmarking.

They'll even do one for you.

Brand and design

The brand gap

worth a read

Web Redesign: Workflow that works

Slideshare.net is a great resource for slide decks on issues of brand and design, and has a great range of presentations.