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

Design nightmare

Designers are clever folk and too often abused. I mean look at this from Critical Care Conference 2016. Imagine the time and effort and skill that has gone into this?…

On flow charts. Don’t.

No, just no.Life isn’t like that. It doesn’t just flow. It doesn’t “bring your presentation to life”. Things aren’t equal. Turning your head on the side to read things isn’t…

This is the title of the blogpost.

It is always interesting to have questions from twitter. Thanks to Cian O’Brien for this one. @ffolliet any tips for title slide of a presentation? — Cian O’Brien (@CianSOBrien) January…

  • 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…