How to make a presentation hard to follow
Last week I went to the inaugural Smart Power Grid Technology Conference put on by ISQED . It was a great conference with about 100 engineers packed into a tiny conference room in a Santa Clara hotel. Lots of great information... if you worked hard to get to it. And as I watched about five presentations I came to the realization that these guys must have had the same presentation training. So I decided to go looking for the school they went to over the weekend. I found it. It was in the basement and a San Francisco cigar store. The sign, hanging from a single nail on the left side on the door, said “Crappy Presentation University” in 9-point type. So I went in. What luck! There was a class in session. Here are some excerpts: Typography: If you use a font that is clear enough and large enough for people in the back rows to see, they will get your point right away, so whenever possible use a font that is ...