A bad PowerPoint presentation reads the slides directly to the audience without looking up, which research shows is the most annoying thing for over 60% of people. It also uses hard-to-read fonts, excessive animations, and unnecessary sounds. The presentation should engage the audience through eye contact and concise explanations rather than just reading text on slides.

1. Bad Powerpoint presentation

2. Reading the slides
• When the speaker reads the slides to us and doesn’t look in the
audience is very annoying.
In fact, Dave Paredi, Co-author of ‘Guide to Powerpoint’ did a research
what people found most annoying about the powerpoint
presentations they see. And the results showed that 60.4% of the
people found, when the speaker reads the slides to us, the most
annoying.
• An example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFcagL1nsA

3. Pictures

4. Readability
Can you read this?

5. Readability (fonts)
• Can you read this?
• Can you read this?
• Can you read this?
• Can you read this?

6. • Animations
• Are
• Very
• Annoying
• 24,5%

7. Sounds