[applekeynote] Re: Question for Les: Abandon 6 x 6 rule?

--- In applekeynote@yahoogroups.com, "Don Kraig" <don@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, Les.
>
> Years ago, in a pre-KN world, I taught PowerPoint to university students. Most of the
class
> was on technical aspects so they could simply use the application, but we also gave a
bit of
> design advice.
>
I think the more interesting challenge is to eschew the entire idea of "lines" altogether.

Awhile ago I was informing someone that most of what you can do with bullets can likely
be done better with a table. The presentation was about amusement machines an they
were comparing a "spider" to an "octopus" using two bulleted lists. I was able to divine
the real meaning of each of the items (to use for the table headers) and turned a boring
texty slide to one that drove home the main points effectively AND was more visually
pleasing.

> On of the things we suggested was a "general rule" (i.e., try to follow it most of the
time)
> known as the "6 x 6 rule": Limit text on a slide to no more than 6 lines and no more
than 6
> words per line.
>
> While I would contend that for a boring, dull, PP-hell type of business presentation
where
> the information on the screen might better be given in hand-outs, I've moved on to a
post-
> PP, KeyNote universe. Thanks to advanced thinking such as presented by you and
others, I
> now sort of cringe at slides that are nothing but a maximum of 6 x 6 text.
>
> So my question to you is, considering this post-PP world, should the "6 x 6 rule" be
> abandoned along with Windows 3.1?
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>

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