I read Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint around xmas time (much geekery empathy). Reading it made me think that designing slides well isn’t so different from writing a good Twitter thread. I thought the book was a bit lacking on great examples of PowerPoints, but had some good general principles and techniques for designing a presentation. He also mentions a lot of the presentations/thinking of Ella Fitzsimmons (https://twitter.com/fitzsimple), who I’d not come across before but seems pretty great.
Yes, she's fab! Lou Downe has similar thoughts on communication / presentation, their slides are always impeccable (the GDS crew are/were a smart bunch) Hope the new job is treating you well! PS I struggle big time with Twitter threads, always harder than it should be
Oh nice one, thanks Ben, I hadn't come across Lou Downe but her (and her book) look great. Enjoying the new job, cheers! Looking forward to more Ben Thoughts ^G
I read Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint around xmas time (much geekery empathy). Reading it made me think that designing slides well isn’t so different from writing a good Twitter thread. I thought the book was a bit lacking on great examples of PowerPoints, but had some good general principles and techniques for designing a presentation. He also mentions a lot of the presentations/thinking of Ella Fitzsimmons (https://twitter.com/fitzsimple), who I’d not come across before but seems pretty great.
Yes, she's fab! Lou Downe has similar thoughts on communication / presentation, their slides are always impeccable (the GDS crew are/were a smart bunch) Hope the new job is treating you well! PS I struggle big time with Twitter threads, always harder than it should be
Oh nice one, thanks Ben, I hadn't come across Lou Downe but her (and her book) look great. Enjoying the new job, cheers! Looking forward to more Ben Thoughts ^G