“First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.” KnowsFirstsPersonsToolsNarrativeFirst PersonFirst Person Narrative Author:James McBride
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.” ThinkingFirstsWellsMatterHelpingShowsEarthToolsOppositesTalesDataCorporateLiteracyPresentationEmergingMicrosoftVisualizationPowerpointCautionary Tales Book:Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better