Secret #2: A bar chart is usually better
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Designing Presentations
May 22, 2013 
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People are not coming to see your slides. They are coming to see you. Everything about your presentation should reinforce that fact. Like any good story, keeping a rapt audience involves doling out the plot in measured increments. Subtitling yourself on your slides might be a great way to organize your thoughts but it’s a surefire way to lose your audience. They read faster than you can possibly speak. You lose their attention twice when you show a slide with bullet points—once when the slide appears and their brain is muting you while they read, and once again when they return their attention to you, because now you’re just repeating what they’ve read. Mitigate this by never ever using bullet points or animation, and writing your content in a fashion that generates more questions than it supplies answers.
(Full Story: http://gazit.me/2012/12/05/designing-presentations.html )
Haiku Deck – iPad presentation creator
September 23, 2012 0 Comments
Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement, it’s fast, fun and simple for anyone to use.
(Full Story: Haiku Deck – iPad presentation creator)
Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL – YouTube
March 22, 2012 0 Comments
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Shower – cross browser presentation template
July 18, 2011 0 Comments
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“There’s a Slide For That” – Generic Slides to Avoid in your Pitch
January 26, 2011 0 Comments
1. The Hockey Stick2. The 2 X 2 Matrix3. The Stoplight or Harvey Ball Chart4. The Diagram: The more complicated the better.5. The Logo Chart: Lots of logos of lots of big name customers.
(Full Story: “There’s a Slide For That” – Generic Slides to Avoid in your Pitch)
Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
August 21, 2010 0 Comments
What the same presentation would look like while following conventional slideware templates found on present day planet Earth. “You can’t see this well on this Micro Galactic ProjectionPoint, but an analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the battle station. Follow this link at the bottom of the screen for more info if needed.”
(Link: Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint)
InfoQ: Testing is Overrated
July 22, 2010 0 Comments
Developer-driven testing is probably the most influential software development technique of the last 10-15 years. There’s no question that it has improved the practice of building software. And in a dynamic language like Ruby, it’s hard to get by without it. But is it really the best way to find defects? Or is the emphasis on testing and test coverage barking up the wrong tree?
(Link: InfoQ: Testing is Overrated)
PowerPoint Twitter Tools
October 7, 2009 0 Comments
Display a real-time twitter Bar at the bottom of each slide
Display a feedback slide with questions and comments from Twitter
Real-time voting over Twitter
(Link: PowerPoint Twitter Tools)
PowerPoint Designs that Executives Love (But Shouldn’t) – WorkAwesome
September 14, 2009 0 Comments
It would be easy (and fun!) to discuss PowerPoint (PPT) culture in general: how it ruins meetings, wastes time, confuses audiences, and is a general haven for bad design and writing. But instead, we will use this opportunity to discuss something useful. We will review design techniques that generally meet with approval and praise. We will also review why these techniques are actually quite bad and what you can do to fix them.
(Link: PowerPoint Designs that Executives Love (But Shouldn’t) – WorkAwesome)
