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Sometimes less is more. Learn these simple tricks to take advantage the minimalist design trends in graphic design to create more professional presentations.

Aside from aesthetics, the beauty of design is that it helps the presenter to clarify messages and communicate more effectively with the viewing audience.    That is why presentations and infographics are highly effective means of communication (at least when created and presented properly).

One of the trending styles is called minimalism; it is an artistic movement that uses only minimal and basic elements.  Think of your iPhone’s clean and crisp interface and its flat use of icons and shapes.

In this article we’re going to show you how you can improve your communication skills through minimalist design which will help you create better Presentations, infographics and other forms of rich content.

By extension in pretty much everyday language, minimalism is associated with everything that has been reduced to essentials and presents no accessories; no clutter, no depth, no bells and whistles.  Just the necessities.

The intention of minimalism is to generate meaning from the minimum. This requires simplifying the design, using pure colors and simple flat elements.  The “Less is More” statement definitely holds true here.

Read more at http://blog.visme.co/how-to-use-minimalist-design-to-create-professional-content/#RRcE16bhwIgxVTbs.99

This concept computer-of-the-future by designer Jakub Záhoř allows the user to operate the device anywhere they can find a glass surface. The user simply attaches the central unit to any glass surface like a window or coffee table, switches on the power, and watches their system light up before their eyes. The display appears as an interactive hologram on the glass that the user merely has to touch to operate…

Want your website to look great on smartphones, tablets, PCs and even TVs? Learn how to go fully responsive.

The Web and the mobile browsers remain one of the top ways that users interact with websites and if they have trouble on their smartphone, there is a good chance they are not coming back.

That’s where responsive design can help.

Responsive design is a concept where you build your website once and then format it so it can adapt to any screen size that accesses it. Designers use HTML5 and CSS to build the sites and set parameters so the content will resize itself whether the user is in vertical or horizontal viewing mode, on a tablet, desktop or smartphone or even a screen as large as a television...

Data visualizations. Infographics. Maps. Information design. 

No matter how you call it, 2012 was the year data science and design started going steady.

These conceptual three-legged structures by Najjar & Najjar Architects would allow Beirut fisherman to reclaim the coastline and generate electricity.

Najjar & Najjar Architects propose installing the kinetic Iris structures along Beirut's shoreline to provide elevated shelters that also harness the movement of the waves to generate power. Studio founders Karim and Rames Najjar believe the structures would help locals retain public access to the seafront, which has been dominated by private development in recent years.

Leap Motion is an innovative keyboard-free computer controller that senses the positioning of your hands and fingers, and enables you to control your computer — and special Leap Motion apps — with midair gestures. The $80 device is 200 times more accurate than Microsoft’s Kinect, sensing even 1/100th of a millimeter motions of all 10 fingers at 290 frames per second.

It’s about the size of a pack of gum and attaches to your computer via USB. Leap Motion is also working with HP to build the technology right into your desktop or laptop — and eventually into smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and any other type of device.