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The way that we as engineers and scientists design presentation slides is naturally evolving. When a presenter comes up with a new slide design that succeeds in a talk, those of us in the audience consider adoption. However, this natural evolution of effective slide designs in engineering and science has been painfully slow. One reason, as slide designer Cliff Atkinson asserts, is that PowerPoints’s defaults “are deeply entrenched.
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Alley, M. (2013). Critical Error 8 Following the Common Practices of PowerPoint Talks. In: The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8279-7_12
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