Ciaran, an engineer, sent me a presentation from a work trip he had been on as part of an internship programme. It’s not so much an awful presentation as an awful idea for a presentation. It was basically two groups of people who had done the same thing, telling each other what they did for …
After my recent request for awful presentations, I received the following note from an engineer named Jeff: Barry, I think you have touched a nerve. I see the first slide in some presentations and want to scream. The things that really grinds my gears are: 1. Text heavy document pasted into slides and read out …
PowerPoint Presentation Hell ‘My worst experience of a presentation was given by a colleague on his PhD research,’ recalls Sean, an academic. ‘He had about 50 PowerPoint slides all of which consisted of black text on a clear background and he proceeded to talk through these in a monotone until I had to clench my …
Have you seen a PowerPoint slide anything like this recently? Or this? I’ll bet you have. In fact, I’d be surprised if most of the presentation slides you’ve seen aren’t like this: intricate, text-heavy and inelegant. Of course, the above slides have been taken out of context and I’m sure many of you would say, …