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

Don et al,

If you watch the Macworld presentation, I address the 6 x 6 rule, and it's big brother, the 7 x7 rule, and basically point out, in rather dramatic fashion, where these rules came from.

To some extent, they are a hangover from overhead projector days, which powerpoint (or originally, Forethought) was designed on the Mac to support via black and white transparencies for laserwriters.

You may now officially abandon these rules. The Emperor indeed has no clothes.

Les

On 28/02/2008, at 3:37 AM, Don Kraig 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.

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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