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We have a new article up at the Jury Expert: “A Necessary Evil: Edward Tufte and Making the Best of PowerPoint“. It’s the second in our series on popular theories of presentation design, and how they relate to the courtroom. In this article, we discuss Information Design guru Edward Tufte’s writings against many presenters’ favorite [...]

I began working in litigation graphics in 1998. We did all the standard stuff: medical malpractice, contract disputes, employment issues, environmental problems, construction, intellectual property—a little bit of everything. In 2002/2003, I started working on my first software patent infringement case, Kodak vs. Sun. It was the first time I’d worked on a technical tutorial, [...]

Congratulations to Yahoo! and their counsel at McDermott Will & Emery and Haltom & Doan!  Barnes & Roberts is proud to have been a part of the trial team that successfully proved Yahoo! does not infringe U.S. Patent 5,893,120. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of non-infringement in just 50 minutes, deciding that the accused code [...]

Bullet points get a bad rap but can be useful when used correctly.

Another video about change blindness, and how motion affects perception: (Via The Awl) “At first, the ring of dots is motionless and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing color. When the ring begins to rotate, however, the dots suddenly appear to stop changing. The faster the ring moves, the less the colours [...]

A jury in Austin, Texas, has awarded Richard Garriott $28 million in damages in his suit against his former company, NCsoft. Congratulations to Mr. Garriott and his attorneys at Fish & Richardson. Barnes & Roberts provided graphics and helped present the case in Judge Sparks’s courtroom in Austin.

Here is a piece by author Jonah Lehrer talking about how machines that seem less like machines and more like beings endears them to us. These mistaken perceptions of agency can dramatically change our response to the machine. When we see the device as having a few human attributes, we start treating it like a [...]

Errol Morris has the first part of an article up on the New York Times Opinionator page discussing “unknown unknowns,” beginning with the story of a bank robber who was too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber. Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them [...]

Over on the Atlantic website, James Fallows points to a good use of Google Earth to help visualize the surface area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Using this utility, you can map the spill onto any city to see how far reaching it is (The utility requires the Google [...]