Dear Alexandro, You are right, both PPT and Impress fare poorly with presentations.
Unfortunately, I was not able to follow any discussion on the UX list over the last months due to excessive other work. However, I did want to come up with some fresh ideas since last year, but never manage to do it. I know that there is some UI redesign. While this is needed, this is only a minor part of the problem. A quick look on your posting identified some major areas where Impress (and PPT) fare very poorly. So thank you very much for bringing this up. I wanted since last year to post a personal presentation, which highlights some of these problems, but did not manage to find the proper time. I am willing to share this presentation, however I used extensively images from the net - which might be (are) copyrighted, therefore I am not able to post if freely. However, please drop me a message (everyone who wishes to see this presentation), and I will send you the PPT file (it is a ppt file due to PPT being pretty much the standard in the field). I believe that personal usage of this material is ethically ok. It is a medical presentation, which I held as an online training last year for an audience in the UK (and I think the US). It is heavy image-driven. A few comments are pertinent: It is said that a good presentation is one where - if you see only the presentation without the presenter - you do not understand anything. I like to digress. A good presentation is one where - agreed - the focus is on the presenter - but the slides capture all important ideas (in maximum 2-5 words), and do not need any further input to highlight these ideas. As an example, please take slide no 3 in my presentation (to be sent separately) This is the quintessential slide, and I do thing it is one of the best slides, not because I was brilliant, but because the person who took the photo was brilliant (well, it was from a WHO campaign). Just think: What is TB? What is the most affected population? What organs are affected? How do you diagnose it? I - as a presenter - do need to answer any of these questions. The viewer should instantly know the answers. Of course, the presenter can dwell into the matter - but this was just an overview. However, there are slides like 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, ... where the limitations of PPT (& Impress) are evident. Also, compositing slides using multiple images was a pain. (see e.g. 17, 18, ...) Overlying text on images is also a pain, as images might have a very specific colour, making text unreadable. I hope I woke up some interest in this presentation. I planned to discuss this already last year, but I continuously postponed doing so. Sincerely, Leonard Mada -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:56:42 -0500 > Von: Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> > An: UX Discuss <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > Betreff: [graphics-dev] Rethinking Impress > I recently put a post about some of the issues between the UX and also > the way presentations are builted nowadays (according to my experience > on slideshare) and how can we re-think the way Impress tools are > developed and presented. > > http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/wordpress/?p=633 > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > OpenOffice.org Español > IM: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
