TCANZ Pre-Conference Workshops 2007
"Visual Structure" with Jean-luc Doumont

We are pleased to announce that the first pre-conference workshop will be held during the morning of Tuesday 6th November at the Duxton Hotel in Wellington.

Workshop details

The need for visual structure is everywhere-in picture-oriented media such as presentation slides, in text-oriented media such as printed documents, or in electronic, interactive media such as Web sites. Yet most of us have had little training, if any, on how to convey a structure visually, and the vast majority of slides, page layouts, and Web designs out there fail to reveal any underlying structure effectively, as they violate the most basic principles of visual interpretation.

Outline

This half-day workshop focuses on the basics on visual structure and on their effective application. After a first conceptual part in the form of a group discussion, it proposes an interactive analysis of example slides, page layouts, and Web designs brought by the participants, with a view to improving them.

Outcomes

As a participant, you can thus expect both to sharpen your analytical skills on a variety of visual structures and to receive group feedback on some of your own creations.

When

Tuesday November 6th 2007 (please register before 30/10/2007)
8:30am - 12:30pm.
Tea and Coffee will be served on arrival from 8.00am

Cost

Members (TCANZ, NZATD): $168.75 (Incl GST) Non-members $258.75 (Incl GST)

Venue

The Private Room
Duxton Hotel
Wellington

Need more information? Contact workshop organiser Johanne Booth.

About the presenter

Jean-luc Doumont

Jean-luc Doumont teaches and provides advice on professional speaking, writing, and graphing. He also trains instructors and can facilitate any process that requires solid structuring and effective communication. For more than fifteen years, he has helped audiences of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities structure their thoughts and construct their communication, in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish.

Jean-luc is one of the very few trainers in the field to combine a top-notch technical background with acclaimed communication and teaching skills. Thanks to this unusual combination, he approaches professional communication in an innovative, engineering-like way that contrasts sharply with the tradition of the field, rooted in the humanities. He is thus well received by engineers, scientists, and managers, who say that they are "on the same wavelength"-a prerequisite to effective learning.

An articulate, entertaining, and thought-provoking presenter, Jean-luc is a popular keynote or invited speaker worldwide. In recent years, he is giving guest lectures increasingly often at top-ranked graduate engineering schools, such as at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, UC San Diego, UCLA, University of Maryland, Harvard, and Penn State.