I’ve had to sit though some presentations recently where when it came to visuals, the presenters took cramming information in the audience’s face to a whole new level.  One one projector, we had the slide deck and on the other, a demo.  Pretty innocuous there, outside the typical excess text and map shock-laden diagrams....
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Oh, the last month.  Preparing for a presentation that could determine the fate of a 2+ year long project required a ton of preparation.  When preparing for a presentation of that magnitude, all of the best practices for effective slide design become that much more important.  The hard work of several people over many...
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If you’re like me, you probably subscribe to either MacWorld Magazine or Mac Life.  Over the past several months, I’ve seen the ads for the Targus AMP11US Bluetooth Presenter for Mac from Targus.  In the ad, it’s a thing of beauty.  It seems to be designed to compliment the MacBook Pro and it has...
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I’m going to take a break from writing about slide design and slideware for a moment to tackle another subject:  Snow Leopard.  As you’re probably aware, Apple’s newest OS, Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) was released barely more than a week ago.  Pundits all around have been quick to criticize the OS release, citing reasons...
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It was with great joy that last month, I uninstalled Office 2004.  The software, PowerPoint 2004 included, were getting on my nerves and there was nothing that suite could do to repair the broken relationship we had.  It wore out its welcome. Since then, I signed up to teach a slide design class through the...
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A couple weeks ago, I issued a challenge:  redesign a chart slide that was of little to no use of any audience member in the back of the room.  The chart had too many lines and labels, making it much like a confusing plate of spaghetti.  Any attempt to interpret the chart, even when...
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