Kill powerpoint
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- twokids0
I hate when I hear people say they are 'ashamed' of having to work in powerpoint. It's so ridiculous.
I work in a division of a giant corp that is all b2b. all these 'marketing' types like to think about 'ads' and 'campaigns' and so on, and making printed brochures in 4-color and it's all stupid and a waste of time and money because where the money gets made is when sales presents information to clients directly - and 90% of the time that is powerpoint. And they usually look terrible because sales is forced for the most part to do it themselves because marketing people are working on a 'campaign'.
powerpoint is where the money gets made, where the ideas get put across. If it were up to me, our organization would have good designers custom making powerpoint for sales every day. fuck printed brochures and banner ads and 'campaigns'.
and if they felt shame about it i would show them the door and get somebody who cared about designing something that matters
- chalk0
The only thing bad about Powerpoint is peoples' inability to use it. The newest version of PPT is almost identical to Keynote.
- twokids0
powerpoint is just a sequencer. You can create all of your art in other programs and import it and just use it as a simple layout tool. Sure the text tool is not great but it isnt that bad. I do 3d imagery and diagrams outside of powerpoint and just import it.
- bekannt0
but, i still don't see a decent presentation done on PPT
- manonthestreet0
Everything...hardware, software, all of it...they are just tools.
- animatedgif0
"Why hate the program mate, it's all up to the user"
Not true, powerpoint can't render type competently
- all type?manonthestreet
- leading and kerning suck in PPTvaxorcist
- jfletcher0
There are a lot of bad cooks yet I don't hate food.....
There are a ton of bad Photoshop people.... but we don't kill photoshop.as other say.... it's a tool.
- jamesomega0
I'm surprised no one has mentioned InDesign CS5's Interactivity view yet. You guys know about this right?
- Although I don't know if it exports as flash or how they handle "interactive" files for export.jamesomega
- stewart0
what can't i type the word powerpoint?
- Daithi0
http://280slides.com/
↑ Online Keynote cloneI would usually go with 'the user is to blame' and that anyone could do it well. But in the case of Powerpoint it's different. It really is a piece of crap.
- drgs0
powerpoint
- exador10
a few years back, i was doing a few months contract work for Allstream in Toronto...part of that was spent doing endless powerpoint presentations for different people in the marketing dept.
much like twokids just said, i just did all my layouts, art, text you name it, in photoshop, and just used PPT to display it all together...
the art files were all kept in meticulous order in their native layers (just incase of changes)...these particular presentations were almost always needed for 'one-offs'...wouldn't be used again...so they wouldn't (for instance) need to access the text layers to change words etc...
the only reason PPT was used was that all the people there were familiar with using it, and when they were giving their presentations wanted that sense of familliarity....frankly, most suits don't like learning new shit....at any rate, all the presentations i did worked out quite well, and one in particular one some awards (some 'internal' award for excellence or something)...it was given to the lady giving the presentation..lol...not me, the guy that created it hahaha) but in her defence, it was massive, she wrote the whole thing and ever since that successful colaberation, we've worked together on tons of projects since....
so...although i'm no huge fan of PPT, using it in the past has lead to good things career wise....
- vaxorcist0
I keep seeing:
Error:
- Response: Your request has been denied due to the nature of its contentwhen I type either P P T or P o w e r p o i n t without the spaces..
admin must hate this stuff...
- vaxorcist0
p o w e r p o i n t doesn't have to suck....
Clear thinking has to precede clean design... it's amazing the number of people who don't get that....
...and yes, the wizards don't help.. it makes it easy to look like you've got some work done when you've just slopped some randomness together...
that said, I'm toying with the idea of writing a PERL script that makes this stuff automatically from a list of buzz phrases....
- jaylarson0
keynote works in a pinch
- formed0
I don't like it (from a design standpoint), but I've seen plenty of good looking presentations.
All up to the designer/user. Seen far more horrible designs created in Adobe products!
- twistedfork0
Why hate the program mate, it's all up to the user. if you dont know how to make a good presentation it'll fail no matter what software you use (Keynote, PPT or Acrobat).
Cheers!
- georgesIII0
If only you knew how much money your friend could make knowing how to use powerpoint well.
I've been ask in the past to prepare powerpoint presentations for clients of mine because they like sitting around a table and projecting ideas on a white board. It is one of the business thing that will never disappear no matter how much tech is around them.If it pays I'll learn it, I can use word too fairly well
don't discriminate because I can honestly say 95% of the corporate world still use PPT format to exchange presentations.as of visually failing, here's a good example of a company that good looking powerpoints
http://www.ethos3.com/portfolio/…
- jfletcher0
That's like wanting to kill Photoshop to stop terrible design and photo work. I've seen some nice PPT work. It's all in the person who creates it.