Loads of people are reading the blog but few comments are coming in, so in order to try to get some interaction going, why not send me a couple of examples of your slides. Send me examples of slides that you think are either really good or particularly bad. If you present regularly, why not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bad design'
Poor PowerPoint template design
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Bad design, PowerPoint
I have been asked to give a talk at a corporate meeting. There are several speakers, each presenting on a different topic. Rather than allow us the freedom to use our own slides, they don’t trust us and have imposed horrible templates for us to use. These are grim because (a) they use the standard [...]
Tags: Bad design·PowerPoint·Templates
2D or 3D graphics in PowerPoint or Apple Keynote?
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote
I can’t decide about this. Sometimes when I am showing data, using graphs, I use Apple Numbers to generate the histograms or pie charts. There are some very neat 3D effects which can help jazz up even the most boring data. But what I can’t decide is whether it is better to go for standard [...]
Tags: Bad design·Visual effects
