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Slides are meant to illustrate concepts, not be a document you read. If I can read your slides like a cut up article you're doing presentations wrong.
by Etheryte 4y ago
Slides are meant to illustrate concepts, not be a document you read. If I can read your slides like a cut up article you're doing presentations wrong.
- amelius 4y agoThen why are most company websites made with scrolling?
- fastaguy88 4y agoBecause visiting a web site is a very different experience from listening to a talk. When you visit a web site, you (the visitor) has control of the presentation. When you listen to a talk, the speaker has control.
- macintux 4y agoAdditionally, if the slides have all the relevant content, the speaker is almost certainly doing it wrong. Slides are generally intended to be an outline, not a comprehensive paper. Websites, on the other hand, have to be much more detailed to be useful.
- amelius 4y agoThis doesn't explain why if the user has control they prefer scrolling, whereas if the presenter has control they prefer slides.
- kthejoker2 4y agoThis is literally begging the question - of course different users would prefer their content in a distinct format to meet their distinct objectives. Presenter has control: objrctive is to control the narrative, build to a conclusion, resonate. Slides tell stories and "make a case." User has control: find what's relevant to them, get out. Documents are organized for search and discovery.
- amelius 4y agoAnd since when do companies not try to control the narrative?
- Etheryte 4y agoCompanies try to control the narrative just like any one person tries to control the narrative in their lives, i.e. everyone does this. This whole argument makes no sense.
- fastaguy88 4y agoWe're not really talking about controlling the narrative. We are talking about controlling the consumption rate (and the ability to set the focus). If I am visiting a web site, some parts are more interesting and some less; I want to spend time on the stuff I care about. If I am giving a presentation, I also want to control how the material is presented. This is nothing about "narratives".
- Etheryte 4y agoBecause websites are not presentations, the two serve entirely different puproses. It's unclear what you're asking to be honest.
- tengwar2 4y agoNo. That's one type of slide. In others, the slides are there to present facts rather than numinous concepts. Think of illustrating something in programming: usually you need to show working code, and the audience need to be able to take and modify that specific code. Just talking about a concept is not enough for that specific case. Btw, there are people who hate "concept" slides just as much as you hate "content" slides. Feynman had some very terse comments on bullet points, for instance.
- Etheryte 4y agoYou are building a plethora of straw man arguments here. No one other than you has said anything about hate or any other such nonsense.