Some years ago I attended Edward Tufte’s information design course. His solution to the “May I have your slides?” problem is to produce a separate high-density

Some years ago I attended Edward Tufte’s information design course. His solution to the “May I have your slides?” problem is to produce a separate high-density handout for participants. In that way the slide design takes whatever form suits its low-density format, and the handout has the high information density of print. I’ve tried to implement that to mixed success. In academic settings people still want the slide dump so that they have a note-taking framework without having to work too hard to figure it out on the fly. It has become such an expectation…