Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (2019)
Linked from Tufte’s article, I found this interesting comment from someone’s experience at Microsoft: [1]<p>&gt; Attempting to have slides serve both as projected visuals and as stand-alone handouts makes for bad visuals and bad documentation. Yet, this is a typical, acceptable approach. PowerPoint (or Keynote) is a tool for displaying visual information, information that helps you tell your story, make your case, or prove your point. PowerPoint is a terrible tool for making written documents, that&#x27;s what word processors are for.<p>I think that’s on point for many companies. A lot of the terrible slides you see in meetings are actually intended as documentation after the fact, and few people recognize (or care) that this makes for a terrible presentation.<p>Ironically, I think Powerpoint isn’t such a bad tool for creating handouts. If the intended reader reads the document on their screen instead of printing it, a nice PDF with screen-shaped pages might actually be close to optimal.<p>You just have to be 100% clear whether you’re creating a document or a presentation.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamamusings.net&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2005&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;the_culture_of_the_deck.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mamamusings.net&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2005&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;the_culture_of_th...</a>