Slide design: signal vs. noise (redux)

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Post by smackaysmith » Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 2:40 PM UTC

Slide design: signal vs. noise (redux)
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Re: Slide design: signal vs. noise (redux)

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Post by smackaysmith » Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 2:44 PM UTC

Excellent deconstruction of a Whole Foods presentation. I'm a bit shocked that a CEO would come to Berkeley with PPT slides containing ugly Excel charts that are impossible to understand unless you were sitting in front of the monitor.

Re: Slide design: signal vs. noise (redux)

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Post by veritas » Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 3:02 PM UTC

smackaysmith wrote: post #2

Excellent deconstruction of a Whole Foods presentation. I'm a bit shocked that a CEO would come to Berkeley with PPT slides containing ugly Excel charts that are impossible to understand unless you were sitting in front of the monitor.

He's a CEO. I'd be shocked if he didn't come to a presentation with PPT slides & Excel chart combination. :)

On a more serious note, I think the idea that PPT slides full of text are helpful is basically entrenched in corporate culture. I wish everyone used Lessig's approach.