I normally stay away from templates for PowerPoint and Keynote but Keynote Pro has some gorgeous pre-made templates if you need inspiration for an important presentation. I have bought a few of these and particularly like the “OM 08” template for Apple Keynote. You can use the blue or green version, but both are very clean designs (although the font is a bit thin for me so I changed to Myriad Pro in the master slides).
I came across a presentation today while browsing the web and I had to capture a couple of the slides as examples of poor slide design. I have disguised the origin of the slides and removed the company logo which appeared at the bottom of each slide.
These are really grim because they are totally overloaded with text, which is too small. They also use bad clip art that has nothing to do with the actual content of the slide.
Also, the font is Times New Roman which must be about the worst font to use in a presentation.
It drives home the point that bullet points should be banned from PowerPoint slides!
I found this in my collection (no, it’s not mine, but it is a colleague’s but he won’t be reading this so I’m safe). He has used a Spongebob figure in a scientific presentation. In my view this fails because (1) the clipart is very low resolution so looks very amateur and (2) because it’s redundant. You don’t need a picture of Spongebob to understand the concept of a sponge.
So in my view this slide is spoiled by the irrelevant and “humorous” (not) cartoon. It’s a bad slide anyway – the artwork could have been vastly improved with a little effort.
If in doubt, when it comes to clipart – DON’T!
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I gave a couple of talks today and decided to try the app Pointer instead of my usual remote. I was using my MacBook Pro with my presentation in Keynote. However this app does not work only with Keynote – it is a great remote for PowerPoint, too. [Read more →]
Lee Potts runs a great blog called Breaking Murphy’s Law (whatever can go wrong will go wrong) [Read more →]
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I took a short cut today and used some data supplied by a colleague. [Read more →]
It seems that the Windows version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the eyedropper/color picker thing that the Mac version has. [Read more →]
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