Microsoft and horrible PowerPoint slides
Just saw this via Read/WriteWeb . The topic was the latest Windows Live announcement, as if this one will better explain it than the previous ones. While reading the article, I came across the following two slides, which would make Mr. Tufte vomit:
One would hope that the creators of PowerPoint would have a clue as to what a well-designed slide would look like. Instead, they have way too much text, glaring colors, differing font sizes that do not correlate to importance, and enough bullet points to make your head hurt.
Communicating your thoughts clearly really shouldn’t be this hard.
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January 14, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
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Christina Niven said,
January 14, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Great finds. PowerPoint is easy to use, but difficult to use well. I’m always struggling to get it to look good.