My experience and style
My top priorities when creating a visual representation of data or process are accuracy and clarity. I have the technical depth to work with you to understand your data and your process. I have the management and leadership experience to distil out the key messages for a given audience. This establishes the content. I then lay the concepts of design on top of this carefully honed content to make your visuals easier to decode and remember, leaving your audience with more bandwidth to process your message and come away with an understanding of your topic.
Dashboards
By combining and presenting key data in intuitive ways, a good dashboard provides a shortcut to efficiently monitor status and make decisions. However, it is all too easy for dashboards to become cluttered or cumbersome to use and maintain. I will pull from years of spacecraft operations experience, where at a glance access to data is mission critical, to help you develop meaningful dashboards that are easy to maintain and become a touchstone of how you both monitor and present status data.
Data Visualization
So often, important trends or correlations are hidden until data is processed and displayed in the right way. This is an area where my unusual combination of education and interest in the visual arts combines with and complements my deep technical background. We will work together to explore your dataset, discuss what you are working to convey, and collaborate to create a visual data representation that is easy to process, memorable, and visually appealing.
Infographics
Infographics are becoming a vital part of effective science communications. When done well, they capture interest and convey your message quickly and memorably. Creating a good infographic requires distilling complex information into a few important points and pairing it with informative and visually appealing graphics. This is where my mix of skills come in. I have the technical background to understand complex data and topics, the management and communications experience to distil it down to key points, and the eye for design to put it all into a visually appealing package.
Templates and Branding
Wish you weren’t fighting with PowerPoint every step of the way? A good template and the knowledge of how to use it will ease that feeling and speed up the process of making effective presentation packages. We will work together to develop a template that works for you - making you more efficient, making it easy to implement best practices, and helping you establish your own signature style. We can start from scratch, work within organizational branding guidelines, or tailor your organization’s existing template to your needs.
How do we start?
Use the Contact form to send me a message with a brief description of how I can help. We will schedule an online conversation so I can learn more about your project and we can discuss options.
