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Charts, images & design.

Charts, diagrams, icons and design work that stay accurate and readable.

27 articles
Transferable AI skills

Ask AI to draft a process diagram you can check

Give AI the written rules, get an editable diagram with a rule ID on every branch, then test the threshold and rejection cases before anyone relies on it.

Charts, images & design6 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Brief a small icon set and check the family

Give AI one construction system for a few icons, get editable SVG rather than a picture of icons, and check the set at real size.

Charts, images & design7 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Build a moodboard with useful visual variables

Use ChatGPT or Gemini to make three labelled visual directions, test one variable at a time and turn the chosen look into a brief someone else can reuse.

Charts, images & design9 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Create an annotated before-and-after comparison

Put the original and the AI edit side by side, number every visible change, and turn each note into a keep, remove or fix request.

Charts, images & design6 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Make a slide illustration that explains one idea

Ask AI for three visual mechanisms for one slide idea, choose by what each one implies, and keep every fact as editable text.

Charts, images & design8 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Make a visual reference brief your team can reuse

Turn an image your team liked into a short written brief, split the lines that stay from the ones each job supplies, and test it on a second job before sharing it.

Charts, images & design7 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Make an infographic that shows the denominator

Write the finding and its limits first, build an editable chart with every number tied to the source, and catch a headline that turns a sample into the whole company.

Charts, images & design6 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Plan an image sequence that keeps one subject consistent

List what must stay the same before generating frames, attach the original reference every time, and check the subject separately from the scene.

Charts, images & design7 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Storyboard a short explainer before generating its visuals

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini for a scene-by-scene storyboard tied to your source rules, check what each scene promises, then make the visuals one scene at a time.

Charts, images & design6 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Turn one campaign visual into three useful sizes

Make a wide, square and tall version from one master image by cropping, padding or extending the background, without letting AI redraw the subject.

Charts, images & design7 min read + practice9 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Use AI to draft a poster with editable final text

Use AI for a wordless background, then put the event facts on top as real text in Canva, PowerPoint or Google Slides, so a wrong date is a ten-second fix.

Charts, images & design6 min read + practice9 October 2026
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Check an AI-generated image before you publish it

Look at a generated image at the sizes readers will see, work through seven kinds of detail and decide whether to use, fix or replace it.

Charts, images & design15 min read + practice7 October 2026
Transferable AI skills

Write useful image alt text with AI

Draft alt text around the image's purpose, check it against what the image shows, and put it in the right place in Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs or Canva.

Charts, images & design13 min read + practice7 October 2026

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