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It may (or may not!) be common sense (which isn’t all that common, in my experience!) but like so many books and articles of this type, the devil is in the details….. 🙂
The things the reader needs to know are not just the principles but also how to apply them. It may be “obvious” to you, but it’s not obvious to other people. And sadly, my experience is that the kind of people to whom this kind of thing isn’t obvious are also the kinds of people who need a lot of help seeing how to apply it when they ARE shown the priniples….. if you see what I mean.
In other words – just cos it should be obvious, doesn’t mean it is! 🙂
You’re right, Andrew. Much of the things we suffer are stuff we could easily solve with a little common sense. But then you asked a good question: “if it was common sense, then why do we still suffer through so many poorly-designed presentations?” I think I have an answer for you:
“. . .because common sense is NOT common!”
(Jonas E. from Lagos, Nigeria)
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The only good reason to add busy, cluttered slides to your presentation.
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We’ve all seen cringe-worthy PowerPoint slides so cluttered with information that they’re nearly impossible to read. You know the ones. The text is reduced to 9-point or 12-point font to squeeze everything in.
Busy slides frustrate the audience because of a concept called ‘cognitive load.’ Too much text, too many numbers, and too many graphs overwhelm our ability to process and retain information.
Effective presenters avoid text-heavy slides. Instead, they favor clean, minimalist designs that are attractive and easy to read. However, there is one reason—and one reason only—to include a busy slide in a persuasive presentation:
Add a busy slide to a presentation only when you intend to overwhelm your audience.
In other words, a slide could contain a mountain of information because it is not meant to be read, consumed, and digested. It’s there to stress a point.
For example, in March, the National Association of Realtors agreed to a massive $418 million settlement over commissions that home buyers and sellers pay to real estate agents in the U.S. Since the settlement might convince prospective home buyers to negotiate lower commissions, real estate agents have had to turn up their persuasive skills to articulate the value they provide.
Recently, Realtor.com launched a digital and print campaign to demonstrate the value agents bring to the transaction. One ad fills the entire length of a standard newspaper. The headline reads:
So, you’re ready to buy a home. Here’s the next 111 to-dos.
Best 5% interest savings accounts of 2024.
Realtor.com advertisement
Good luck reading the remaining text (on left). It is purposely written in tiny font to squeeze in the dizzying number of details that buyer’s agents navigate to facilitate a home buying transaction
The point of the ad is that home buyers need support. The implication is that you can try to accomplish all the tasks yourself—researching, preparing financial documents, making offers, and considering legal protections. Or you can make just one decision: find a buyer’s agent.
Realtors making presentations to win over clients would be well served to include such a slide—one that's so dense it's almost illegible without a magnifying glass.
There are times when the intentional use of busy slides supports the argument.
Take Apple, for example. The company’s product launches are notable for minimalist and visually appealing slides that contain more photos and images than text.
However, in June, when Apple unveiled new products, features and plans to put artificial intelligence in every corner of its iPhone, the company's speakers intentionally broke the mold by including strategically cluttered slides.
For example, after one speaker highlighted notable updates in macOS Sonoma, the Mac's latest operating system, he projected a slide filled with boxes highlighting dozens of other features: updates to Apple’s browser, Safari, new gaming titles, iPhone mirroring on the desktop, and much more.
The slide only stayed up for 20 seconds. It was far too little time to read everything, but that’s the point—it was intentionally cluttered to put an exclamation point on the product announcement.
The intentional use of clutter is as much of an art as the deliberate use of white space. So get busy, but only when the time is right.
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A 17 slide PowerPoint that provides main themes surrounding CAT4 assessment tasks.
CAT4 assessments consist of verbal reasoning – thinking with words; quantitative reasoning – thinking with numbers; non-verbal reasoning – thinking with shapes and spatial ability – thinking with shape and space. Many schools use CAT4 to provide ‘predictions’ for GCSE results.
The ppt provides an introduction to CAT4 assessments. The normal distribution curve is outlined and the realtionship with stanines and standard age scores and how they are derived from raw scores. The important visual-spatial dynamic of CAT4 is dealt with in detail. Finally, caution is raised when using assessments to label students and create self-fulfilling narratives.
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