I just came across Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen blog on Seth Godin’s blog. Wow – what an amazing amount of useful information related to the design and delivery of presentations. I’m so glad to see another designer tackle poor Powerpoint design as I’m a big fan of Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points. He overnight changed the way our firm designed our client pitch presentations.
Reynolds’ blog discusses the presentation styles of many business leaders and public speakers. It’s fascinating. The one thing most of the presentation styles have in common is no more than one point per slide and one eye-catching visual per slide. At first, I was somewhat hesitant to use a “design-centric” presentation in front of nuts-and-bolts technology firm owners. But, in over 40 presentations not one person in the audience has commented negatively. In fact, even among design firms we stand out when pitching ourselves.
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If you don’t have a New Year’s resolution yet, you might want to consider “make better presentations”.