The Trouble with Transitions, Episode 3

Having all kinds of crazy slide transitions in your presentation can be more distracting to your audience than helpful.  Let’s face it, not all transitions work well to help you deliver a powerful message.
And, if you think they don’t work well together in a presentation, you should see how they act when they have a [...]

Topic: Business, Delivery, Design, Technology, Video
Tags: boomerang, Business, checkerboard, corporate, humor, PowerPoint, presentation, slide, transition, Video, wedge

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The Trouble with Transitions, Episode 2

Slideologists know how to click responsibly.  Clicking responsibly involves not only knowing when to click…but also when not to.
This is especially true when choosing slide transitions.  Your presentation software may have lots of ”jazzy” transitions for you to choose from, but just because they are in there, it doesn’t mean you have to use them.  Sometimes it [...]

Topic: Delivery, Design, Video
Tags: blinds, humor, newsflash, slide, transition, Video

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The Trouble with Transitions, Episode 1

Cheesy slide transitions.  You’ve seen them.  You know them.  You loathe them.
You know the ones I am talking about—Boomerang, Checkerboard, Wedge, Blinds, Newsflash and heaven forbid, Random.  Speakers put them in their presentation thinking that they will somehow make the presentation more effective. Instead, they usually end up being more of a distraction.
As people begin [...]

Topic: Delivery, Design, Video
Tags: Design, humor, PowerPoint, presentation, transition, Video, Visuals

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Legos

Visitors to Duarte.com may be familiar with our work for Mozilla–designer Eric Albertson created various sculptures from a Lego pirate ship set to illustrate the importance of an open-source approach: build what you can imagine, not what’s prescribed.

But I never thought I’d see this.

Topic: Diary
Tags: humor, kit, legos, pirate ship

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