Last week I wrote an article and did a short screencast on using visually based slides for presentations as opposed to the standard bullet point presentations. One of the comments left on that article was about using slides to show details to the people who receive the slidedeck but couldn’t attend the presentation.

My response was that details don’t belong in the slides, they belong in the notes section. Slides are used to present a visual overview of information, not the detailed information itself. That’s what a document is for.

Let’s see what Garr Reynolds and Nancy Durante have to add to that statement.

From Guy:
“Design is about intention. What’s your intention? Most people don’t think like a designer… they default to tools like PowerPoint.”