My technical presentations are pretty popular and non-technical people pass my slides around the company, despite having no interest in the topic… - Having a s

My technical presentations are pretty popular and non-technical people pass my slides around the company, despite having no interest in the topic… - Having a story is the bread and butter. A presentation will not be interesting without a story - I regularly comb through my slides as I’m building the presentation to make sure the story flows - As you watch my presentation, a ton of information will never just appear on the screen. I use the PowerPoint timeline so slides slowly form as I speak, almost as if I was using a whiteboard. No one likes being confronted with a wall of text on a slide advance - I don’t avoid text only slides but I rarely have them because they are rarely the best way to tell my story or the concept - I also regularly read through my presentation as I’m building it to make sure it never gets too technical (aka boring) or too non-technical (aka boring). There is a fine balance and if you suddenly have to get too technical, you have to pull back in the next few slides and vice versa - Despite having very little text, you can actually print out my slides and they still make sense and tell you everything that you need to know because I use a lot of hand drawn visualizations that exactly describe the concept Lastly, I have to say that it doesn’t matter what app you use to make presentations. A bad artist blames his tools. I personally use PowerPoint because it has both iPad Pencil support and also a full blown animation timeline so are basically making a movie if you know how to use it, although I mostly use it to split slides into smaller parts.