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That's an interesting question. PowerPoint, Keynote and their ilk are largely skeuomorphic in that they mimic actual slides on actual overhead projectors, whic
by BjoernKW 9y ago
That's an interesting question.
PowerPoint, Keynote and their ilk are largely skeuomorphic in that they mimic actual slides on actual overhead projectors, which probably no one below the age of 30 has ever encountered in real life.
Tools like Prezi on the other hand often focus too much on impressive animations and transitions that carry little to no information. Presentations created with Prezi often appear as all fluff and flim-flam. Besides, that constant zooming in and out makes me sick when watching it on a large screen at least.
There has to be a better way to communicate. I'm not exactly sure how it looks like but to achieve it we probably have to forego metaphors from the 1970s as well as superficial animations that carry no meaning.
- 2K17 9y agoYou are using same characters as book printers - is your post skeuomorphic like a newspaper section for letters from readers?
- mnw21cam 9y agoA while back, I gave a conference presentation, but instead of using Powerpoint, I just had a directory with a load of mp4 videos. It turns out that if you run xine with all of them on the command line, you can use the right arrow to skip to the next one. Put a long-lived static image at the end of each video, and you have a completely custom-built set of slides with whatever transitions you want. In my case, I used the videos to illustrate mathematical models and results. It was a marginally more powerful method than using Powerpoint.