Tag: design
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Weekly digest 23
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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The hidden power of typography
https://microsoft.design/articles/the-hidden-power-of-typography Simply put, design matters, and a growing body of research backs that up. We are finding that documents with good design have more impact, are more influential, and create better outcomes than those without. I’m more interested in fonts than I should be.
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Link: 10 tips for academic presentations
http://matt.might.net/articles/academic-presentation-tips/
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User guide for Claude AI
This user guide for Claude is an excellent resource, not only for understanding how you can use Claude more effectively, but for understanding language models in general. There’s an introduction, sections on prompt design and useful hacks to improve Claude’s responses, and an overview of the use cases you might consider for Claude. It also…
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Blown away with Adobe Firefly
Earlier today I had a quick look at Adobe’s Firefly generative AI system, which is going to be embedded across many of their products. And I was blown away. You can get a sense of the ease with which you can tweak variables in this video. Generative fill is what Adobe is calling the feature…
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Tool: Wikiwand – a modern reader for Wikipedia
Wikiwand is a modern reader for web and mobile, that optimizes Wikipedia’s amazing content for a significantly improved reading experience. Fortunately, all articles on Wikipedia are released under a free license, which allows us to fetch Wikipedia articles and optimize them for maximum readability and enjoyment. At Wikiwand, we’re all about providing you with a…
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I didn’t become a physician to do data entry
I opened Ms. Tucker’s chart. There were twenty-one tabs vertically on the left-hand corner of the screen and eighteen tabs horizontally on the top of the screen. I quickly glanced through the cluttered twenty-one vertical tabs; I clicked on the one I am looking for — “transfer medication reconciliation” in the 19th slot. A new…
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Constructing a blog post for the PHT402 Ethics course
This is a post for participants in the #pht402 Professional Ethics online course being run by the University of the Western Cape and Physiopedia. Many of our participants have little or no blogging experience, so this post is intended to provide some suggestions and resources that may be useful when learning how to write your…
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“Design” and “Evolution” in curriculum development
Awesome quote from Linus Torvalds (creator of the Linux kernel) on the difference between evolution and design. Don’t ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit. For implementing the module that I…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-30
Daily Papert http://bit.ly/jCcfiS. “We learn best and we work best if we enjoy what we are doing” # How to Shame Teenage Girls into Proper Prudeness http://ow.ly/1tgFDS. Good point about where we most often point fingers # Problem Based Learning and microblogging http://ow.ly/1tgFyy # RT @physiopedia: Clinically Relevant: mobile apps for OMT therapists http://goo.gl/fb/x2Plt. Also…
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Posted to Diigo 03/28/2010
Garr Reynolds/Design Basics If you can master these fundamental concepts, your graphical treatments — from PowerPoint slides to Microsoft Word documents to company brochures — will greatly improve Seven basic graphic design principlesUnity Unity may be the single most important concept. All elements on a page (or slide, poster, etc.) must look like they belong…