Presentations beyond noise

Wow! Do you believe that your PowerPoint presentations are beyond noise? I did, until now. Garr Reynolds‘ weblog on professional presentation design told me to basically rethink what should and shouldn’t be on a slide. It’s amazing how “simple but not simplistic” changes increase visual communications effectiveness. So: What is good PowerPoint design?

Another post to read: Noise and elimination of the nonessential

In informal usage, the signal-to-noise ratio represents the ratio of useful and relevant information to superfluous or irrelevant information. We want to keep the noise down and the signal up, and the content must be rich enough and appropriate enough for the context. … make sure your target audience gets the key message easily and quickly and don’t tick them off with superfluous detail that amounts to no more than distracting noise.

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