Slidesharers, you should know that you have totally inspired us. Every time we visit, we discover amazing storytellers and fresh new ways to communicate. We’re often amazed by the beautifully designed decks we find as we browse the site. We also know that many mere mortals struggle to make their stories look as good as those professionally designed ones. So we set out to make a tool that would take the design hocus-pocus out of the process. We wanted to offer a simple, fun way for anybody to create flawlessly beautiful presentations. The result is Haiku Deck, and we’d like… Read more »
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Help the US military! Makeover this slide
New York Times, in all their wisdom, has identified PowerPoint as the enemy that the military needs to go after. The article describes a meeting heavy culture, where people spend days creating presentations, only to put everyone to sleep when its actually presented. Its easy to blame the tool, but it sounds like they are avoiding facing a larger issue – ineffective communication patterns. The NYT also posted a crappy visualization as an example of how terrible presentations are in the military, The slide is indeed terrible. If this is the level of design the military is working with, that… Read more »