Why You Should Put Less Text in Your Slides
Most people complain about boring presentation that uses slides that looks like walls of text.
The brain don’t have the ability to listen et read all that text at the same time.
According to Microsoft, the average slide shows 40 words.
The BBC published an interesting article about the subject
You think bullet points make information more digestible? Think again. A dozen slides with five bullet points on each assumes that people are mentally capable of taking in a list of 60 points. If it’s a 30-minute presentation, that’s a rate of two-per-minute.
This looks a fairly interesting visual aid
This highlights the biggest problem with slide-based presentations, which is that speakers mistakenly think that they can get far more information across than is actually possible in a presentation.
I invite you to read the BBC article.
Share with me: How many words do you have on your slide?
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Denis François Gravel aide les organisations à performer en contexte de présentation pour que leurs prestations donnent les résultats souhaités. Il les accompagne dans l’acquisition de meilleures pratiques et dans le développement des habiletés de leur équipe.
Il est président et conseiller en développement des habiletés de présentation pour PRÉSENTabilité, le cofondateur de TEDxQuébec et l’hôte de PechaKucha Québec. (2)