Comments on: How NOT to use PowerPoint

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:54:31 +0000

I’d give it a miss, Jacqueline, and don’t be afraid of a little silence, a pause in speaking. It can help keep attention, too.

By: Jacqueline Maddox

Jacqueline Maddox — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:47:50 +0000

I really love your video, it helped me understand what to do and not to do when making a Powerpoint presentation. I have a question would the use of sound in a presentation be veiwed as professional? Would it keep your audience focused or not?

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:23:17 +0000

Entertaining video, but he lost a lot of credibility in my eyes when the slide prior to the one where he complains about spelling errors, there is a blatant misuse of “your” at the beginning of the sentence instead of “you.” But funny, nonetheless.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:32:34 +0000

Even though I am a powerpoint designer who does nothing else all day long, for a living, I’m still terrified when I have to do a presentation for a group of more than 25 people :)

By: rumey

rumey — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:38:17 +0000

While very true for power point presentations (that are actually presented on screen), people now use powerpoint for far more things than it was designed for. The reason a lot of slides have “over information” is that they are meant to be printed out and studied later…

I personally agree with all the points for a presentation, but I also use powerpoint extensively for small designs (that don’t need a sledgehammer–read ACAD) and find that this is a little known use for powerpoint.

By: Bryan Grezeszak

Bryan Grezeszak — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:21:53 +0000

It’s really funny, you point out so many problems that are dealt with in visual communication in general (from powerpoint to brochures to web design). Clients tend to dismiss these things as self-important designer mumbo-jumbo that doesn’t actually matter, and it’s difficult to convince them otherwise. This video does a great job of using humor to bring light to real everyday problems in visual communications! Thanks!

By: Jane Beck

Jane Beck — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:18:14 +0000

But I love Times New Roman…..really!

Terrific presentation otherwise…

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:19:21 +0000

No problem, Ronald.

By: Ronald C. Palmer

Ronald C. Palmer — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:15:19 +0000

Hi David,

I am an Adjunct Professor with Kaplan University. For a couple of years I taught applications. One day while looking for something interesting to introduce the PowerPoint segment I stumbled on a site that had your video. I provided a link to the site to my students. They loved it as much as I do.

I am glad to see that you have it on a site that you either own or are connected to. I am currently teaching Database Management classes using Access. I am about to give my students the address of this site because what you have to say applies to database forms and reports too.

Thanks so much for an opportunity to lighten up my classes and provide very meaningful information at the same time.

By: Dan Thurgood

Dan Thurgood — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:32:40 +0000

Tee hee. I’m just putting together a presentation on how not to use PowerPoint. What really made me laugh though… was on the video guy’s first slide. There was a spelling error. Top marks to anyone who can find it…