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My colleagues and I disagree about this. Some use clipart or photos to demonstrate the emotion or “mood” of a PowerPoint. Not me. Call me a puritan.
I tell my team to not include clip art or superfluous photos. It shows a lack of substance. If you need to cut/paste photos or something to “spice up” your presentation, it means that you don’t have anything to say and you are wasting people’s time.
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The following photos are from a presentation I saw today. Ewww, bad. trite.
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This is so true. The more i work, the more i realise that less is more. Good slides are all about parsimony. One killer graph > a whole deck of words and clipart
Amen.
well said. this is the number one argument i have with my team. the second is whether the slides speaks for itself or definitely needs a voice over.
Amen.