Daniel Hoang

Doodling is okay, Sunni Brown at Ted

September 27, 2011
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Principles of Graphic Facilitation Workshop by The Grove

September 14, 2011

I’m at Oakland Intl Airport catching a flight back after a three day workshop on The Principles of Graphic Facilitation hosted by The Grove. PGF Program Principles of Graphic Facilitation - This two day workshop builds on core skills in meeting facilitation and graphic recording and connects the two skills. Either on its own can be a powerful tool, [...]

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Put down that iPhone, stop and smell the roses

September 8, 2011

I’ve been paying particular attention to bus riders in Seattle. I’ve notice a growing trend of smart phone addicts. We’re still children, holding onto our Starbucks coffee (our adult sippy cup) and grasping our smart phones inches from our face (our toy). The weather in Seattle is amazing in September. This is when summer starts [...]

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Formatting your document for readability: column width

August 15, 2011

Standard templates are not optimized for readability. A Word document has standard margins of 1″ on each side. With an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, that’s 6.5″ of text. PowerPoint is even worse. In landscape view, that is 9″ of text. Newspapers and magazines have been working on layout for years. They use narrow [...]

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My new vintage toy: 1940′s Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter

August 14, 2011
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A wealth of information at Edward Tufte’s website

July 31, 2011

If you want to know more about visual display of information, do check out Edward Tufte’s Notebooks (forums). Tufte responds to most questions posted and the forum is heavily moderate so you get a lot of great information.

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Increasing the resolution or data density of documents

July 27, 2011

Most people read the newspaper, the one that’s printed on paper. The typical newspaper font size is between 8 and 9 points. A typical newspaper compresses a lot of information in a very small space. Large headlines are used to generate interest and the reader can selectively choose what he/she wants to read. Take a [...]

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Facebook on hiring good engineers

June 29, 2011

Here’s a good quote from Mark Zuckerberg in his visit to the Seattle Facebook office: “One thing you find in engineering is a really good person is like 10 times as productive as pretty good person. I’m not talking about a bad person – I think bad people are negatively productive because of all the [...]

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