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…

  • What sort of presenter are you?

    One of the tests of a descriptive model…

  • Changing your slides won’t improve your presentation. (much)

    Too often I hear people say, “I really…

  • One word for Prezi.

    No.   I know it’s non linear. I…

  • Read these.

    33 blog posts, about 80 page views a…

  • scientific bulletpoints

    There is a feeling that a presentation can’t…

  • You’re an idiot.

    No really! I have such concerns for your…

  • I’ll talk you through this data slide…

    Data slides usually resemble a “Where’s Wally?” picture….

  • Don’t put the cart before the horse.

    To develop presentations, one must move away from…

  • They are all the same!

    It is astounding that, right now, across the…

  • Are you talking to ME?

    In the movie “Taxi Driver” Rober de Niro…