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Death by PowerPoint
The presentation by Kevin Potis emphasizes the evolution of presentations, highlighting that there are 300 million PowerPoint users globally and 30 million presentations created daily. It provides key rules for effective presentations, including keeping it simple, focusing on one thought per slide, and the importance of storytelling through charts. The final takeaway stresses the need to avoid clip art and to aim for memorable, engaging content.
Death by PowerPoint
- 1. A PowerPoint presentationby: Kevin Potis, Designer and Principal of BGS
- 2. Before there werepresentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points and no one had to dim the lights. ~ Ian Parker, Absolute PowerPoint
- 4. In 1990 thefirst PowerPoint for Windows was launched
- 5. 300 Million * PowerPoint usersworldwide * I’m pretty confident this number is on the low side.
- 6. 30 Million * presentations areproduced daily * I’m pretty confident this number is on the low side.
- 8. Do you needslides?
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- 13. What are therules?
- 14. Rule of thumb,rules* *A means of estimation made according to a rough and ready practical rule, not based on science or exact measurement.
- 15. Rule of thumbno. 1: You are not the audience. It’s bigger than you and me. It’s ALL about me. ~ Stephen Colbert
- 16. Rule of thumbno. 2: But you are the star!
- 17. Rule of thumbno. 3: Keep it simple. One thought per slide.
- 18. Rule of thumbno. 4: 3-second rule (bullets kill) Simple works. One to four words Crisp thoughts Bigger ideas Control the pace
- 19. Rule of thumbno. 5: Charts tell stories too. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Growth
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- 21. Rule of thumbno. 6: Animation Use animation
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- 24. Rule of thumbno. 7: Be memorable. inform & entertain
- 25. Rule of thumbno. 7: Be memorable.
- 27. Oh, one lastthing.
- 28. Rule of thumbno. 8: NO clip art, ever.
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Editor's Notes
- #4 PowerPoint 1.0 went on sale in April, 1987-available only for the Macintosh, and only in black-and-white
- #5 PowerPoint had been created, in part, as a response to the new corporate world of interdepartmental communication. Those involved with the program now experienced the phenomenon at first hand. In 1990, the first PowerPoint for Windows was launched, alongside Windows 3.0. And PowerPoint quickly became what Gaskins calls "a cog in the great machine." The PowerPoint programmers were forced to make unwelcome changes, partly because in 1990 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint began to be integrated into Microsoft Office-a strategy that would eventually make PowerPoint invincible-and partly in response to market research. AutoContent was added in the mid-nineties, when Microsoft learned that some would-be presenters were uncomfortable with a blank PowerPoint page-it was hard to get started. "We said, 'What we need is some automatic content!'" a former Microsoft developer recalls, laughing. "'Punch the button and you'll have a presentation.'" The idea, he thought, was "crazy." And the name was meant as a joke. But Microsoft took the idea and kept the name-a rare example of a product named in outright mockery of its target customers.