9 Things Your Graphic Designer Wants You to Know About Communicating Effectively

Communicating our evaluation findings in ways that are visually accessible, clear, and compelling is an increasingly important part of our work as evaluators. Join a graphic designer and evaluator who have been working together for almost 20 years as we share the lessons we've learned in the following areas: (1) developing a document that can more easily be made 508 compliant, (2) creating strong hierarchies in documents to facilitate comprehension of findings (and to make life easier for your designer), (3) selecting color schemes that convey meaning while still aligning with color brands, and (4) organizing document layouts that work with the brain to minimize your audiences' processing burden. These lessons and more will help you deploy elements of design to make your evaluation findings more accessible, clear, and actionable..