design them instead.
I find that I’m continually being asked by people for advice on how to write their presentations and almost inevitably these people are wedded to the million-words-per-slide-in-lots-of-bullet-points school. It’s got to the point where I can almost tell who’s going to be of this school of thought when they use the words “write a presentation”.
The very words imply something in people’s head about presentations being wordy.
Good presentations, of course, do contain words – they contain as many words as necessary (but no more!) but I’d like to suggest a wholy different way of thinking about getting your presentation together. Don’t think about writing it at all – think about designing it.
That way you’re more likely to think visually – images and so on – rather than a gazillion words.
It’s a whole different mindset!
Great, thanks for the article. I found it very interesting.
Also, I’d like to show you a resource where you can download free power point templates designs:
http://www.plantillas-powerpoint.com
Thanks for the link Julian and I’m glad you found this short article interesting.
I must admit I’m always nervous about flashy templates because they often make things harder to read (just ask anyone dyslexic etc.!) and they steer people towards text as the already contain images…
…. but that aside, yours are some of the cutest ones I’ve ever seen! :) They’re not over-fussy, either. Cool.
Thanks again…. Simon
Hi Simon
I liked this article. I’v e lost track of the amount of times I’ve sat through a presentation that’s had slide after slide that’s contained mountains of text. Only to have the presenter read off the slides. I don’t want to see an actor perform with their script so why should we see a presenter with theirs?
They’re called bullet points not bullet paragraphs. Many people seem to forget that.
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