Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  IV2005 (11 Jul 2005) More than half of the presentations I have attended had slides that abused PowerPoint in its more inefficient and less visual way: lots of bullet points almost literally read by the presenter. It's clear that while you read the slides you barely pay attention to what the speaker is saying, and if you listen to the speaker, reading is out of the question (what is then the need for a slide?) This is a mortal sin in a conference like this, where we have seen certainly other excellent presentations centered on the visual contents of what the speaker was saying. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=169&lang=2 Read 171 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Losability vs. Usability     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy