The Prezi Menu

PowerPoint slide shows are like commercial jet aircraft– ubiquitous in business life, but with technology that hasn’t seemed to budge in decades.   As a communication medium, PowerPoint is one of the great corrupting influences for those of us who trade in the office arts.  It’s the junky sit-com of authoring environments, with it’s crammed toolbars full of lazy visualizations and transitions, text distorters, prix fixe layouts and color schemes, royalty free clip-art hokum and assorted other information-free nonsense.   Its worst trait of all is more fundamental – that it constrains our ideas to the slide as the uniformly sized chunk of information.  Once we commit to dealing in slides, we take an immediate hit on our mental agility and the level of focus we bring to the simple act of conveying our ideas.

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