Powerpoint is Evil

2008 October 14

tags: Keynote, powerpoint, powerpoint is evil, presentation tools

by Kasper Krogh

Found this article on Wired. “Powerpoint is evil” nails a lot of the issues with powerpoint, and spells out the problems about PowerPoint totally missing the point of getting something across, not to mention the fact that is makes it very hard to align elements, change typography and especially that it just looks bad due to the digital presentation. Read a more elequintly written PPT-bashing here

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