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I think perhaps instead of saying "powerpoint should be banned" perhaps poorly built diagrams and powerpoint slides with too much data that are meant to be read
by kaspm 11y ago
I think perhaps instead of saying "powerpoint should be banned" perhaps poorly built diagrams and powerpoint slides with too much data that are meant to be read should be banned. Slides and visuals as part of a presentation are used to focus the listener visually on the main point being discussed. People are (generally) visually oriented and enhancing a presentation with visuals using slides can make your presentation better.
- techdevman 11y agoAgreed. Just because people can design ugly and confusing slides using powerpoint doesn't say much about the software itself. You can make ugly presentations using any similar software.
- sp332 11y agoPowerPoint should be banned because its interface encourages the creator to add distractions. It has almost no tools for making things simpler.
- mashmac2 11y agoSo... PPT really just needs a new design interface?
- dyates 11y agoThe MS Office suite in general is incredibly overcomplicated for what the average person is actually going to need or even use. The ribbon interface I think helped (mainly because it removed/hid Clipart and Wordart), but not enough. Many people I know have stopped using Office entirely in favour of the free and much lighter weight Google Docs suite, with no complaints about missing features. MS does seem to be simplifying (or arguably dumbing down) their interfaces a lot these days, so maybe we'll see this kind of a redesign.
- niels_olson 11y agoTo an extent. I use iPython with RISE or a deck.js based system. I really like the deck.js method because my interface is vim.
- jszymborski 11y agoI just searched up RISE, and as a guy who loves reveal.js and spends a lot of time writing python in IPython (and who wants to bridge out into Julia), this is a godsend. Thanks for bringing it up!
- cristianocd 11y agoAfter banning it and getting dizzy from watching some bad Prezi presentations, you'll want PowerPoint back.
- youngtaff 11y agoPrezi focuses too much on transitions between the slides and I really don't like it much
- throwaway125 11y agotechdevman: Your account is shadow banned. Looking at your history I think it was for your first article submission. It seems in error. No contact info in your profile so I wrote this reply.