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.

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p2 posts

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 don’t.…

Where’s Wally?

The point of a data slide is a quick, easily interpreted, graphic representation of numerical data. The audience should be able to grasp the meaning themselves within seconds, ideally without…

Images work on their own.

Images work because we can look and see, interrogate and question, pick up nuances and emotions and connect in a way that words simply limit and constrain. Written words seldom…

  • Consistency is the key

    Consistency adds significantly to a presentation. If you…

  • Less pies

    The use of charts to visually display data…

  • Herding chickens

    The major drawback of text on screen is…

  • Do not use this.

    Fontography 102. The font that you chose to…

  • Fontography 101

    People can get very excited about fonts but…

  • What sort of a presenter are you?

    The quality of a presentation is the product…

  • Don’t get me wrong.

    The reason that most text based presentations suck…

  • It’s not a comic

    The scientific evidence is clear that text on…

  • Dirty secrets on your usb stick

    I’ve been to a few presentations recently where…

  • Presentations fail because science (2)

    Presentations as they are routinely delivered fail because…