p2

The supportive media (p2) is everything that adds to the story (p1) in its delivery (p3) whether as a presentation or visual aids. If you have visited the site looking for tips on using powerpoint, you will be disappointed. The discussion is around design concepts, use of text in slides, images and data slides used to illustrate and support the message. It is the least important part of a presentation and some presentations may even be better without slides! Most importantly, the .ppt file is not your presentation.

Cornerstone posts include.

p2 posts

I need to present more data. You don’t

A frequent question from clinicians about presentations involves “all the data I need in my presentation.” I’ve addressed this before in various posts but it bears repeating. At a scientific…

How to use a bulletpoint…

Professor John Ioanidis from Stanford University spoke at The Cochrane Colloquia in Vienna yesterday. His opinion on systematic reviews in biomedical research is that they are unreliable. I know this…

Prepare for failure

SO, the Chair has introduced you and you stride up to the stage, there’s a flicker behind you and your title slide appears on the 20m high screen. You press…

Simple design tip #1

Justify your title, don’t center it. I know that’s what the template does but that means there are probably 20 million just like it being delivered today. The centre justification…

It’s .pptx not .docx

A common mistake in attempting to deliver a (scientific) paper is the failure to recognise the difference between a document and a presentation. They are not the same. Perhaps the…

  • Thank you!

    I was recently working with a colleague who…

  • That’s not what I meant by that picture

    A picture can paint a thousand words. It…

  • Here is a picture of a journal article

    If you want to read a journal article,…

  • Lessons from the Sensei (i) effective visual message

    I was privileged to spend time recently with…

  • What is the best presentation software?

    What is the best presentation software? There’s a…

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

    The best books, the best films and the…

  • Lists only work for shopping

    If your p2 is a list You will…

  • What single purpose are your slides for?

      The challenge in improving presentations is significant….

  • No titles

    This is one of the greatest British Olympians…

  • Less is more. Or fewer, in fact.

    Less is more in design. The same applies…