PACUSO

I was in Daegu this past week for DesignWeek 08, its a series of conferences on design and related matters.

It was a great experience but one thing did bother me somewhat, I mean this is suposed to be a world class event and the speakers are some pretty important/succesful people in the world of design and still they make pretty obvious mistakes (even though their presentations werent bad, it just an example), I mean they got the point through but one of the first things you learn is that when doing your presentation is important to use images and not a lot of words on each slide or you'll loose the interest of your audience (the "less is more" rule).

Here is a text from Presentation Helper that is so true "While the audience is reading your slides they are not listening to you - the speaker. A good rule of thumb is less than 40 words per slide. This would allow the average reader to take in the text in around 12 seconds and then concentrate their attention back to the speaker"

So remember to stay away from long ass presentations and dont you go doin the same, pretty pictures always work so try and incorporate your point in with them, but just that...