PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

re: PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

Stephen Fleming — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:25:56 GMT

Obfuscatory eye candy doesn't help get the point across.

The PowerPoint 12 team should read Edward Tufte's book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" before they let this abomination out on the office workers of the world.

(I say this as a PowerPoint fan who bought the program before Microsoft bought the company. I still have a copy of my "Forethought PowerPoint 1.0" manual...)

Stephen

re: PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

Matt — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:13:01 GMT

It doesn't matter what Edward Tufte thinks - it's what Powerpoint and Office customers want that counts.
They want pretty graphics even if some (many?) will abuse it.

re: PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

waynekao — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:21:48 GMT

PowerPoint is a tool. We leave it to you to represent your data in the way you see fit.

Also, keep in mind that PowerPoint isn't only used to display quantitative data. Sometimes I just want a short number-less table, an arrow directed at my main point on a slide, or I just want some pretty text as my title. Better visuals help in all those cases too.

re: PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

Laura — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:10:44 GMT

Here's the thing....I can read the first two graphs. 150K and 250K. Easy.

The numbers on the new slide...fuhgettabout it.

The new look is a visual nightmare. Doesn't even show much drama or convey excitement - here we have a 50% jump in sales...WOW!

But the newer slides don't depict much of a leap. It's visually flat and doesn't tell us an exciting story....at all!

Somebody please explain... why is this new look "better"????

PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

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