Redesigning Mary Meeker's Internet Slideshow
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Redesigning Mary Meeker's Internet Slideshow
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#2Compared to the NSA redesign you did before, I love that this time we get the whole process and not just a before/after result.
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#3Is the full deck available somewhere?
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#4Is the full deck available somewhere?
You can see a bigger version of the slides here: http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/kpcb-internet-trends-2014...
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#5What a horrible, horrible headline. Mary's analysis is incredibly detailed, extrememly informative, and FREE. This link-bait headline chose to ignore all the content and focus exclusively on the fact that the plots are ugly. Strangely enough, I managed to get through the slideshow without falling asleep, and I even was able to read her (quite well laid out) graphs and understand her points.
The author even acknowledged this; the first paragraph does nothing but extoll the value of the analysis. The headline, though, is pure linkbait.
Even worse, replacing a bar chart, where height scales linearly with the metric and is easily comparable across bars, with a bubble plot, which is very hard to use to compare sizes (tiny changes in radius cause a huge change in volume, not so easy to see that), is simply bad design and obfuscates the point. Color me not impressed.
Shame on you, Bloomberg. You should be better than that.
Re: Redesigning Mary Meeker's Internet Slideshow
#6What a horrible, horrible headline. Mary's analysis is incredibly detailed, extrememly informative, and FREE. This link-bait headline chose to ignore all the content and focus exclusively on the fact that the plots are ugly. Strangely enough, I managed to get through the slideshow without falling asleep, and I even was able to read her (quite well laid out) graphs and understand her points. The author even acknowledg…
IMO, the "redesigned" slides are more aesthetically pleasing but they lose a lot of information in the process.
The second slide already has lower contrast (less readable), and as you mention, the bubble plot has less information. I do like the 4th slide (55) redesign, and the one on education (25).
Removing pictures and logos also reduces information for me.
Overall, I overwhelmingly prefer the first set of slides over the second - the point should be information first, aesthetics second.
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#7Cubbers slides are prettier. However i'm able to grasp content better from Meekers slides.
I guess the people (Meeker, NSA) who make these presentations just want to get the message across and care little about pretty slides.
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#8For me I'm distracted by the design - which is nice enough - but the key information doesn't jump out at me like with the originals.
Also, the use of green on green (or is it Teal?) isn't agreeing with my ageing eyesight.
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#9Not bad. I like the way he streamlined the text.
Dark background... yes, that would be better for a conference room projection. But I prefer the white for my laptop view.
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#10I don't understand how you can design something without even talking to any of the stakeholders. Does the new deck accomplish the goals better than the original? How would you know?
I'm not a fan of unsolicited redesigns. Design is easy when you have none of the constraints of a real project.