Edward Tufte is a famous critic of PowerPoint presentations. He believes PowerPoint simplifies ideas and turns facts into slogans. The document discusses how PowerPoint presentations are overused, with over 500 million users creating boring, template-driven slides with animations and transitions. It notes that the Columbia shuttle disaster investigation and Iraq war invasion were presented via PowerPoint, showing its limitations. Alternatives to PowerPoint discussed include chalkboards, flipcharts, interactive whiteboards, Google Docs, Prezi, and supplementing with tools like Infogr.am and Visual.ly. The document concludes that PowerPoint itself is not evil if used properly alongside other visual aids.

1. Engaging presentation
– is it possible without
PowerPoint?

2. Edward Tufte
World most famous guru of visualization
„Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely“

3. Declared holy war against PowerPoint

5. What‘s made such a man so mad?

6. During launch on 16 January 2003 shuttle Columbia suffered structural damage.
Investigation results were presented only in PowerPoint slides and led to wrong
decision.
16 days later shutle crashed

7. February 2003, USA Secretary of State Colin Powell showed PowerPoint slides to
president George W. Bush.
One month later invasion of Iraq began

8. OK, let‘s get serious

9. Everyone uses PowerPoint
• There are more than 500 million users of PowerPoint
worldwide.
• More than 30 million presentations are created
• Over 6 Million Teachers around the world use PowerPoint
for classroom lectures
• More than 120 million people are using PowerPoint to
create business and educational presentations worldwide.
• Microsoft PowerPoint has estimated 95% share of
presentation software market
Year 2012

10. Using PowerPoint doesnt make You outstanding
Using PowerPoint makes You part of crowd

12. Why PowerPoint is so bad?
• Over simplistic - average slide has ~ 40 words
• Turns facts into slogans
• Turns ideas into dogmas
• Real center of presentation becomes slides, not a
speaker
• PowerPoint is not adaptive for network
colaboration

13. Most presentations looks like
bulleted boredom
•Another boring statement...
•Another boring statement...
•Another boring statement...
•Another boring statement...
•Another boring statement...

14. Transitions drives audience crazy

15. Transitions drives audience crazy

16. Animations make audience sick

17. 100 year old cliparts

18. OK, we got a
problem.
What‘s next?

19. Old good stuff
Away from computer

20. Chalkboard (advantages)
• Easy to control pace of
lecture or presentation
• Audience have time to take
notes
• Combination of hearing and
writing helps keep attention
longer
• Audience can be not only
passive listeners, but step up
to chalkboard, express
themself

21. Chalkboard (disadvantages)
• Writing or drawing consumes
time
• Impossible to convey
complicate images
• Results cant be reused,
replicated or remotely
distributed
• Not compatible with Web 2.0
• Cant be liked on Facebook

22. Flip chart
+ You can return back to any stage of
presentation
+ You can be spontane - any last minute
changes can be easily made.
+ Can be used to record audience
questions and comments
- Limited visibility to larger audiences
- Hardly reusable
- Still no Internet

23. Interactive boards
+ Combines advantages of
traditional board and
presentation software
+ Allows usage of
complicate images, video
- Expensive
- Complicated for average
user
- Needs maintenance

24. Clones, alternatives and
additions
Presentation software

25. Microsoft Skydrive PowerPoint Online
Switch from Microsoft to Microsoft? Well, at least this one is free and accessible online

26. Who‘s going to believe You?
Google Docs Presentation

27. OpenOffice Impress
At least can make compatible with Internet browsers Macromedia Flash (SWF) files

28. Army of clones still marching

29. Alternatives

30. Apple Keynote
+ Apple design and templates
surpasses Microsoft
+ Connected to ICloud
+ Compatible with IOS, seamlessly
works on mobile devices
+ Free for Mac users
- Not compatible with Windows

31. Sliderocket
+ Accessible both offline and online
+ Compatible with mobile devices
+ Sharing and online colaboration
tools
+ Dynamic data gathering and
updating from online sources
+ Feedback about viewers and
presentation effectiveness
- No free access

32. Prezi
+ Instead of linear slides -
unlimited space and movement
freedom
+ Web – based, no installation
necessary
+ Basic functions are free
- Zooming and paning makes older
audiences dizzy
- Compromised reliability – service
works only when connected to
Internet

33. Additional tools

34. Infogr.am

35. Visual.ly

38. Google Public Data

39. PowerPoint is not an absolute evil
It‘s a necessary evil
Make it better by using him right, supplementing by other
visual aids