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- ninjasavant0
This is serious business.
- pylon0
Totally, Ian.
It is possible to make great presentations in either PP or KN but when the inexperienced get their hands on it, things go badly.
That can be said of any software, including *design* software. I guess the thing is that everybody get powerpoint included with office and has a go at designing their dynamic website on it and pawning it off on the hapless.
- lowimpakt0
as a wise man once said....
"if you can't design well in powerpoint you're just not a good designer"
- you made that shit upmonospaced
- "If you give a mechanic a spoon and he can't fix your car with it, he's just not a good mechanic"T-Dawg
- Vicentvangogh0
who in there right mind would even bother using PowerPoint in the first place?
- mikkee19730
and worse, people have become so habituated to PP/KN that it is often the first communication vehicle they choose–even when a simple paragraph would do. (Tufte's white paper, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" is an excellent discussion about this & other shortcomings of [the way people use] the tool).
- designbot0
In my experience Keynote presentations look way better, but PowerPoint is more robust.
Guys here at my work always take a ton of time and create these great looking Keynote presentations, but in the end...nobody cares.....nobody seems to pay attention. It is just a presentation.....could be different if you are presenting a website or something creative though....and not just company info.
- pylon0
Non-designer types use it as a creative outlet, I think. They just get all excited and pour all of this extra time into dropping clipart all over the place and using one of each transition effect per slide. They're just having fun — at the expense of presentation clarity, etc.
Getting kinda tired of the whole reflection thing, though. It's the drop-shadow of this decade.
- sklassen0
You guys must be talking about my band: