I've moved away from this style of presentation. Everything on a slide feels like dead content. People fall asleep when you whip out a slide deck. These days i

I've moved away from this style of presentation. Everything on a slide feels like dead content. People fall asleep when you whip out a slide deck. These days if I want to show you code, I'll open up my IDE and show it to you, right there in my code window. I don't really understand why this is different from screenshotting the code and putting it in a slide, but it is. The audience feels differently about code in your IDE. They ask more questions about it, and you can explore other parts of the code than what is on screen. If I want to show what the code does, I'll open the app or website and show it in its "live" context. A demo is more interesting than a set of screenshots, even if the content itself is identical. And as for diagrams and title slides and things, I like to draw them by hand on my ipad. Sometimes I do that live, and sometimes I prepare a bunch of drawings beforehand and flip through them. (But while I'm presenting I'll often add more lines while I explain something). I use GoodNotes for ipad for that. People get really engaged by hand drawn slides, and I always get good feedback on them. I think novelty is the only reason. Everyone is bored to death of Powerpoint and hand drawn stuff catches the eye. If you want your presentations to look like everyone else's, then sure - use keynote or whatever. But if you want your presentations to be interesting and engaging, don't go where everyone else is going. Find another way to tell your story.