Kill powerpoint
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- inhaler97
tonight I had a conversation with a friend who just started school to get his MBA (he has an MFA already and is well versed in photoshop, indesign, and illustrator) on how we have to nip Powerpoint in the bud.
I've talked to him about convincing other aspiring entrepreneurs to leave behind their Microsoft ways, and enter adobe PDF's Slideshow.
ANyone else Agree? Powerpoint needs to end, and Im all for marketing myself to make good looking presentations for the masses. It particularly irks me when I see a TED talk, (which I remind you is to be the top of their field)
and their presentation visually fails.
- jaylarson0
keynote works in a pinch
- 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.
- mydo0
I don't agree.
powerpoint is a good piece of software, and with a bit of care you can make good looking presentations that you can share and work on with your clients.if you're trying to use it on a mac, it's rubbish (no surprise that microsoft didn't care about that though)
What it needs is better templates and better clip art (yes clip art),
so no, powerpoint doesn't need to end. it needs to be supported.
- airey0
aint gonna happen. sorry to burst your bullshit bubble.
- maikel0
If I had to kill something I would kill state agents first. Still, PPT is shite, but from time to time you have to show your flair making a good design on a shite piece of software.
Can you imagine the average comic-sans-lover-CFO doing a presentation in... let's say, flash?
Also, it probably wouldn't even run on a mac! :P
- ukit0
- Kidswift0
Anyone use this http://prezi.com/
- no, but is does
looks pretty sweet
though...utopian - I'm gonna try this, it looks nifty.Continuity
- It is good but just read a guardian tech post bitching about how unstable their website is so maybe just stick with free version for nowKidswift
- with the free version for nowKidswift
- Does the pro desktop version produce offline presentations automatically?Continuity
- no, but is does
- baldboss0
Our MD is sh1t-hot in PPT. Makes them look amazing he does! He asked me to amend one the other day, didn't have a clue where to start. It's an awful app that makes you work super hard to use and make things look good. It's never going away, so learn it and use it only when you need to.
- aanderton0
I hate using it, mainly due to the fact that we have 07 at work and I hate the 07 office interface with those annoying tabs to navigate menus.
It isn't all that bad to design with however. Just takes some getting used to.
- Yolo0
- Projectile0
I've made an obscene amount of money from Powerpoint.
..and when a client wants something that they can edit themselves, in a lot of situations it's the only way.
..and good for projecting presentations.
...so basically, it has a lot of uses, and there is massive demand for desgners who can use it and are willing to. It's how I got my foot in the design door, basically.. so I'd recommend it to anyone fresh out of college, but they just have to make sure they squirm out of it once they've got something on their cv.
- And I thought I was the only one who had to live with the shame of having made cash using powerpoint, thanks projectile,georgesIII
- yes... but when client can edit themselves, do they always want to cram in more stuff? then say "ugh, it looks too busy!"vaxorcist
- 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
- ********0
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.
- 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....