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 closer [...]
I’m going to take a brief break in the sacred cow series to address something that came up in my 9-to-5. It was one of those situations where it was clear there was a need for a better solution, but it wasn’t obvious exactly what that solution was. This did not involve presentation slides, but [...]
Think what you will of him or his opinions, but Glenn Beck was the stereotypical presenter sharing data in tabular format on slides. Some slides were more effective than others and some highlighted the perils of adding bullets after bullets or even rows after rows. You’re forced to shrink the text and the [...]
A while back, when Googling for a PowerPoint alternative (competition is good for consumers, and Microsoft too), I stumbled upon SlideRocket. The concept was intriguing. An online service that provided an alternative to PowerPoint and even Keynote, allows you to share your slide decks online, and even deliver them remotely in a meeting. What’s more, [...]
Types of slides that we often create are those that try to present data to our audience. All too often, this data is placed in a cluttered data table or worse, is presented in a narrative format. In most cases, a chart of some sort is the appropriate method of presenting data. However, there is [...]
