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p cubed framework

A presentation is made of three component parts; the message (p1), the supportive media (p2) and the delivery of these (p3). The value of a presentation is the product of these three factors, the p cubed value.

The three components are discussed in more depth in their individual sections. Please check them out. This section deals with the p cubed value, the product of preparation, design, and delivery.

Some key posts include:

Your presentation is the product of its parts (The FIRST blog post)
The maths of a better presentation
Don’t put the cart before the horse
The p cubed value of a presentation

“Caught up within a single style of visual presentation.”

The previous post alluded to the fact that the fault for bad presentations does not lie with the presentation software. The master of presenting data and information, Edward Tufte, has…

ffolliet
June 2, 2013
p cubed, story

Design matters

I know design matters but I don‘t know much about such things so I asked Nicole Gugger, a presentation professional to share some of her insights and expertise in this…

One change for dramatic improvement. (you won’t do it!)

I’m rather hoping that frequent visitors to the blog will have taken to heart some of the important concepts of presentation. Perhaps my deepest insight has been the p3 concept. The…

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

To develop presentations, one must move away from the concept of looking at the text on a slide and asking how can this be improved by reduction and illustration. This is…

ffolliet
May 10, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, slideument

Why does good design work?

I have been struggling with the question of “Why does good design work?” All presentations (p2) are designed in that they didn’t just fall straight from the heavens. Some work and some…

ffolliet
April 17, 2013
p cubed, p2

Good design is about function not decoration.

I recently spent some time discussing all things Presentation with an expert, Nicole Gugger. She had many insights into the nature and problems of presentation; she is an excellent presentation…

ffolliet
April 16, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

The maths of a better presentation

In my original post I proposed that a presentation is the product, rather than the sum of its parts. More than simply a construct of mathematics this is a model…

ffolliet
April 10, 2013
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, story

It’s just NOT academic

As the title of the blog attests, the underlying beliefs supporting the nature of presentations reflect those of Presentation Zen. Garr Reynolds, the Sensei, has much to share and teach…

ffolliet
March 29, 2013
p cubed

Presentation maths

Presentation maths highlights how all the elements in…
Signal to noise ratio

The signal to noise ratio describes the strength…
Lost in time

“Lost, in time, like tears in rain.” A…
If you could make just one change…

One of the commonest questions I am asked…
Your presentation

Your presentation is the product of its constituent…
p³ presentations are not just pretty pictures

One of the more predictable criticisms of p…
Never about slides

The future of presentations is not about slides,…
It’s too important

It might be a research funding panel, a…
Being an expert

Expertise in a topic does not make you…
Kintsugi

The way presentations are currently constructed, delivered and…