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skybalon's review against another edition
4.0
A good reference. Nothing real surprising but gives the psychology behind the common sense reasoning.
ottoema's review against another edition
1.0
The author forgets the first rule of doing presentations: don't use PowerPoint.
There are so many alternatives to using PP which the author doesn't even consider. The success of a presentation should not be found in the presentation material. This book leads you to believe that all you need is to follow all rules in the book and your presentation will be a success.
This book targets those who overuse PP today. If they manage to follow all rules in the book, they will produce better, clearer presentations, but they will still overuse PP.
Given all the advice in the book, the author fails to realize that PP as a tool for making presentation according to the advices given is quite incompetent. It's not impossible but leaves much of the work to the creator/presenter since few, I'f any, of the principles are enforced by PowerPoint. All work required makes PowerPoint one of the biggest sources of waste in today's work environment.
The author states in the beginning that he doesn’t agree with Tufte on PowerPoint, but fail to reflect over Tufte’s, according to my opinion very legitimate, view that PowerPoint enforces the presenter to model each issue as an hierarchial structure, fitting exactly one slide. This is by far one of the most ”dangerous” aspects of PowerPoint, which Tufte also shows in his analysis of the presentation material leading up to the Colombia crash… As always, PowerPoint leaves it up to the presenter, but indirectly gives very little hints how to present/model the topic other than through hierarchal bulleted lists.
The only good about this book is the principles themselves. Let them stand alone and leave the rest to you. Or to Microsoft for that sake, who should consider what value PP actually leverages given the endless possibilities to fail at creating a presentation.
My advice: get a whiteboard and visualize what your thinking and saying. If your using PP, use it wisely according to the fundamental principles in this book. If you need to apply any of the rules/tips in this book, you have done to much...
There are so many alternatives to using PP which the author doesn't even consider. The success of a presentation should not be found in the presentation material. This book leads you to believe that all you need is to follow all rules in the book and your presentation will be a success.
This book targets those who overuse PP today. If they manage to follow all rules in the book, they will produce better, clearer presentations, but they will still overuse PP.
Given all the advice in the book, the author fails to realize that PP as a tool for making presentation according to the advices given is quite incompetent. It's not impossible but leaves much of the work to the creator/presenter since few, I'f any, of the principles are enforced by PowerPoint. All work required makes PowerPoint one of the biggest sources of waste in today's work environment.
The author states in the beginning that he doesn’t agree with Tufte on PowerPoint, but fail to reflect over Tufte’s, according to my opinion very legitimate, view that PowerPoint enforces the presenter to model each issue as an hierarchial structure, fitting exactly one slide. This is by far one of the most ”dangerous” aspects of PowerPoint, which Tufte also shows in his analysis of the presentation material leading up to the Colombia crash… As always, PowerPoint leaves it up to the presenter, but indirectly gives very little hints how to present/model the topic other than through hierarchal bulleted lists.
The only good about this book is the principles themselves. Let them stand alone and leave the rest to you. Or to Microsoft for that sake, who should consider what value PP actually leverages given the endless possibilities to fail at creating a presentation.
My advice: get a whiteboard and visualize what your thinking and saying. If your using PP, use it wisely according to the fundamental principles in this book. If you need to apply any of the rules/tips in this book, you have done to much...
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