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| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Remix, Powerpoint Swartz, Aaron Resolution, Low |
| Abstract | In my own speeches I try to avoid the boring PowerPoints with the bullets. I either put up pictures of really hot actors (by which I mean, hot-looking: Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, etc.), or puppies, or jokes, and I think I have the whole bullet thing isolated to one slide with three bullet points. Of course, when I’m so busy telling jokes and showing pictures of hot actors it’s hard to find time to get to the bullets. In 2003 Edward R. Tufte, famous for his brilliant and beautiful books on the visual display of information, decided he had had just about enough PowerPoint for a lifetime, and launched a campaign to rid the world of this scourge. “Alas, ” Tufte wrote, “slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. ” His excellent essay, “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, ” makes the case in just 28 concise pages. Aaron has a summary. – Ed |
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| Subject Keyword | Ready-made Design Concise Page Cognitive Style Visual Display Spatial Reasoning Enough Powerpoint Hot Actor Whole Bullet Thing Jennifer Aniston Brad Pitt Content Suffer Beautiful Book Corrupt Statistical Analysis Excellent Essay Analytical Quality Popular Powerpoint Template Boring Powerpoints Bullet Point |
| Content Type | Text |