The audience wants you to succeed

Fear of public speaking often stems from the speaker thinking that the audience’s main objective is to criticize her performance. The opposite is true: the audience wants you to succeed. First of all because of selfish motivations; nobody wants to be bored.

Immerse yourself in photography

As a child I already loved flicking through magazines, just to look at pictures. The Internet makes it so much easier to absorb vast quantities of visuals. Simple add a huge amount of photography-focussed RSS feeds to your Google Reader and hold down your finger on…

The sort of animations we need in slideware: zooming

Most of the animations and slide transition effects currently available in PowerPoint do more damage than good to a presentation (an earlier post on the subject). The video below is guilty of some of these mistakes, but it also contains…

Picking the correct logo

Many investor and sales presentations include logo pages. Improve the quality of these slides significantly by not picking the first image that pops up in Google image search:

1. Visit the company’s web site to see what the latest logo of the company in question…

Adapt your “presentation interface” to every presentation setting

This presentation that I found today on SlideShare is not about about presentations, but about application design for the iPad. Still, it deserves a mention on this blog because of the fundamental philosophy of the…