Today at a conference I was chairing I noticed quite a few speakers used slide decks that were obviously created by dropping slides from multiple decks into one set. So the first slide had a white background and Arial font. The next had a colored background with Times New Roman then occasionally slides would appear [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2009
Avoid mixing slide design styles in a presentation
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Bad design
Tags: Consistency of style·Garr Reynolds·PowerPoint·presentation
Presentation trap
March 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Communication, Presentation skills, Presentation style
Lately I have become somewhat obsessed with PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. I read Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds (fabulous book, wish I’d written it – see his great blog at Presentation Zen) and this woke me up to the fact that most slides and most presentations suck. My own presentations are generally grim, too, with [...]
