The first post in our SWD + AI series explores how to use AI as a thought partner to clarify audience, stakes, and messaging before building your data communication.

How you structure your slides matters as much as the content you put on them. Learn go-to layouts for building slides that work whether you're presenting live or letting them stand alone.

Explore how human and AI can work together to create more effective data communication. This month’s challenge invites you to experiment, think critically, and share your learnings.

A Canva Create panel on data storytelling in the age of AI raised a key question: if AI can make the graph, what’s left for the human? The answer starts with judgment, context, and the responsibility to make data meaningful.

Complex Gantt charts can be hard to read. This post shows how to simplify a timeline view so the audience can quickly see where attention is needed most.

We’re excited to welcome two talented individuals to the SWD team and share a behind-the-scenes look at the hiring process that brought them here.

When slides are full of acronyms and abbreviations, the key insight can get buried. This makeover illustrates the importance of translating jargon and focusing the visuals so the audience can quickly see what matters.

Posing questions as slide titles can feel interactive, but they can create unintended problems for your audience. Learn how clearly stated takeaway titles help focus attention on what matters and support better discussion and decision-making.

When one graph tries to do everything, it often ends up doing nothing particularly well. Cole shows how the same data can tell different stories—and how choosing a distinct graph for each can lead to clearer communications and better conversations.