I’m sitting here, listening, as presentations are written around me – which is a bit depressing, for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, we’re all up against the clock and the room we’re working in isn’t helpfully designed for a group of people to work together in.
More importantly, however, is the fact that I can hear them being written. Not designed or created or anything like that, but “written”.
I can hear people busily typing away.
And that implies that there are lots of words being typed.
I’d rather hear mouse clicks.
Mouse clicks imply that something creative is being done – perhaps using images etc. All you can do with keyboard clicks is type words, but with the click of a mouse you can do things like insert images, rotate stuff, change things, work on transitions, fonts, colours…
I’d love to hear more mouse clicks than keyboard taps.
Mouse clicks are more to do with design – keystrokes are more to do with writing.
Sigggghhhhhh
Three hours later.
God help me, I was right.
So much writing, so many bullet points, so many electrons wasted. it’s a good job electrons can be re-used, to be honest. Otherwise bad presenters would have wasted the world’s supply of electrons in only a couple of years.
It’s not a tool or a technique, more of a trick or a philosophy… when you’re creating a presentation, try and aim for at least as many mouse clicks as keystrokes.
