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

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…

  • Einstein

    This applies to your story (p1)This applies to…

  • Pies are for eating.

    This is a pie chart.   This a…

  • Your (data) slides suck.

    I have previously commented, perhaps too obliquely, on…

  • My Boss won’t like it…

    This isn’t another post persuading you to give…

  • I’m not confident enough to give up bulletpoints

    A recent discussion on twitter highlighted a problem….

  • This is a blog post

    This is the introductory paragraph. It is difficult…

  • You’ve got 3 seconds…

    Nancy Duarte (amongst others) suggests in her meisterwerk…

  • Reduce, reduce, reduce

  • Laid on the beach thinking…

    Instead of thiswhy not leave footprints?

  • But…

    It’s an important meetingI have lots of facts…