The cognitive style of PowerPoint
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“A good way to have credibility with your colleagues is not to have lied to them last week.”
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“We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'”
“Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.”
Source: The cognitive style of PowerPoint
“Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.”
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.”
“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”
“The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime”
“A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.”
“A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.”
“Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.”
“My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.”
“I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.”
“If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.”
“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”
“PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.”
“If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.”
Source: The cognitive style of PowerPoint
“The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.”