Shoot yourself in the foot or not? You decide
The purpose of communication is to make information available to others in a way that makes it easy for them to receive it. Simple enough.
Why, then, do we get bombarded with PowerPoint slides that look like this?
Let’s say you hear the afternoon’s presenter say “Our first point is . . . .” Would you like to be looking at that slide?
Or would you, perhaps, prefer to have this on the screen in front of you?
We rest our case.
For more on this, see Presentation Zen’s article on the “Takahashi Method”.