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…

  • retro fitted

    Retro fitted presentations are really not very good….

  • format changes

    Format changes often when a presentation is moved…

  • type not font

    Type not font influences the reception of a…

  • sans comic sans

    Life is better sans comic sans. Fontography is…

  • Least important part of any presentation

    The p2, the supportive media, is the least…

  • No caption required

    In a scientific article an illustration or a…

  • Single image per slide

    When constructing a slide use only a single…

  • On generic slides

    Generic slides are designed so that “anyone can…

  • data slides (1)

    Data slides fail in a good scientific presentation…

  • Can you see this at the back?

    The p2 is usually constructed on a laptop…