'Saved by PowerPoint'
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The document discusses the pitfalls of using PowerPoint in presentations, highlighting its potential to detract from effective communication, as evidenced by incidents like the NASA Columbia disaster. It emphasizes the importance of meaningful content, clear visuals, and engaging storytelling instead of excessive text and distracting design. Ultimately, it advocates for a more thoughtful approach to presentations that focuses on audience engagement and effective message delivery.
'Saved by PowerPoint'
- 1. Saved by PowerPoint Ahsan Saleem – March 2014
- 2. Agenda PowerPoint casualties How to protect humans from PowerPoint? and .. I will use PowerPoint for today’s talk
- 3. We have been there ..
- 4. More Serious Stuff - US Strategy in Afghanistan
- 5. wtf!
- 6. NASA Shuttle Columbia Disaster 2003
- 7. Columbia Shuttle – Death by PowerPoint
- 8. Edward Tuft (Information Visualization Specialist) analyzed NASA Team’s presentation on a launch incident with Columbia Shuttle and concluded that a bad PowerPoint presentation was one of the major reasons why NASA could not assess proper risk
- 9. Growing dislike for PowerPoint
- 12. “The use of presentations has been a disaster. It should be ditched” Research by University of New South Wales
- 13. Bill Gates and his Slides: Too much content and a sleeping audience!
- 15. PowerPoint is the Devil!
- 16. Who will save PowerPoint and Presentations – and Us?
- 17. Less and meaningful content on slides
- 21. Jobs to Audience: Ever wondered why we had this small pocket in pocket ?
- 22. To keep iPod Nano!
- 23. How to make audience realize how super thin and light MacBook Air is?
- 24. Who is a visual artist here?
- 25. Al Gore – An Inconvenient Truth Using a crane to show the really high CO2 Spike
- 26. Randy Pausch – The Last lecture ‘You will get arrows in the back pursuing big dreams in life’, and ‘I have Cancer but I am still strong’
- 27. Jane McGonigal Jill Bolte Maysoon Zayid Some Amazing TED Speakers made it personal and people remembered
- 28. PowerPoint – Angel or Devil?
- 29. What’s wrong these slides?
- 30. Slide This page contains too many words for a presentation slide. It is not written in bullets, making it difficult both for your audience to read and for you to present properly. Although more words will not convey anything extra but now it looks much more complicated. In short, your audience will spend too much time trying to read this paragraph instead of listening to you.
- 31. Slide Using a font color that does not contrast with the background color is hard to read Using color for decoration is distracting and annoying. Using a different color for each point is unnecessary – Using a different color for secondary points is also unnecessary Trying to be creative can also be bad
- 32. Slide • Avoid backgrounds that are distracting or difficult to read from • Always be consistent with the background that you use
- 33. Items Sold in First Quarter of 2002 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 January February March April Blue Balls Red Balls
- 34. Items Sold in First Quarter of 2002 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 January February March April Blue Balls Red Balls Items Sold in First Quarter 2013
- 35. Can you read me THIS IS NOTHING IMPORTANT BUT I LIKE TO USE CAPS KEY AND HUGE LETTERS Font Size
- 36. OMG! This presenter can use animations I can not focus what the presenter is saying as these animations are totally distracting OK now! Stop bouncing and let me read Finally! Animations – Important?
- 37. Karma For Presentations Focus on telling a story and not teaching PowerPoint is a visual aid NOT a document Look at audience not your slides and hold their attention Learn PowerPoint and do not use default templates for new slides. A plain empty slide is the best canvas
- 38. This is the Canvas you want to start creating your presentation
- 39. What Really helps Overcome fear of public speaking Love your topic Know your topic Have fun
- 40. ‘Never be boring’ Thank You!