PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile. When use of the Web became popular, URLs started invading slide decks. Sometimes they were inserted so the audience could write them down later, or if the slides were abused as handouts, the thought was they could be copied into the [...]
I’ve discussed this particular sacred cow before, but it bears repeating. All too often, meeting organizers distribute copies of the slides ahead of time. Many even consider slides an official record of what was discussed. The former competes with your presentation and the latter is just ludicrous. In either case, this is a sacred cow [...]
Many of the experts have been saying for quite some time that slides do not work well as handouts. An end to the practice was even one of my wishes for slide design in 2009. I have seen the benefits of not having dual-purpose slides, both in comprehension during the presentation and in retention afterwards. [...]
Over on the Speaking about Presenting blog, Olivia Mitchell asked what everyone else would like to see this year in slide design. I’ve got a really long list of things I’d like to see this year, but I’ll focus on the top 3 on my list: Less Organizational Inertia Quite often, one of the reasons [...]
