Topic suggestions for the blog?

I am not suffering (yet) from Fred Wilson’s blogger’s block, but his call for blog topics is a good idea. What presentation design issues would you like me to discuss on these pages? Let me know in the comments.

10 comments

Jan Schultink2011-03-08 19:04:51

Thank you all for the suggestions

Robert Lakin2011-03-01 09:42:01

Consider posting about "content design", i.e. structure and flow. This might include how message/header on page relates to other content on page.

Nolan Haims2011-03-01 12:49:27

Hi Jan,

I'd love to hear your thoughts on walking decks. More and more clients are now preferring shorter, smaller and often 1-1 meetings without a projected presentation, but rather a printed, walking deck to be gone over together side by side.

There are definitely different best practices involved with on-screen decks, printed leave-behinds and guided walking decks. It's the last though that seems to garner the least amount of discussion.

Chen Barnea2011-03-01 10:21:37

What are your thoughts regarding presentation templates - what should they include?

Mr Freeman2011-03-03 01:32:51

I spend a lot of time teaching presentation design to middle school students (8th grade) They are addicted to bullet points and will use them even when told not to. I model good design. I create about two to three sometimes five unique presentation a week. do you have any advice for breaking their bad habits?

Bob Zenk2011-03-01 19:02:51

Presentation templates are all sized for 4:3 on-screen shows. I create all my slides in widescreen 16:9 ratio. Since there are no widescreen templates I apply rule of thirds to design my layouts. As HD Monitors replace projectors, 4:3 just doesn't seem to make much sense. What are your thoughts on widescreen vs 4:3?

MarkLushenko2011-03-02 06:05:33

If color were music, I'd have a tin eye. I'd like to better understand which colors best go together and why they go together.

Babak2011-03-01 10:25:47

Thank you for putting the question. I would like to see more about technical and engineering presentations. The points for having great ones ...

D2011-03-02 00:29:35

I'm an IT consultant and many of our presentations include metrics, lots of bullet points and technical details, etc. I'd love to read a post addressing how to make presentations like that better.

Joe Mako2011-03-01 06:56:54

How would you present a flow chart that has more steps then would reasonably fit on one slide, or would you even put a flow chart into a presentation?