Comments on: 5 ways bullet-point slides damage your brand

By: Presentation Handouts

Presentation Handouts — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:26:21 +0000

[...] is lazy and not effective. If your slides are bullet-point slides (not recommended) then they will often be cut-down sentences which will no longer make sense to the [...]

By: Perché i punti elenco non funzionano: un esperimento « Presentazioni Efficaci

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:26:46 +0000

[...] e del tipo di narrazione che essi promuovono, è naturalmente sotto i riflettori da molto tempo. Olivia Mitchell ne parla da tempo, così come molti altri. I punti elenco appesantiscono le slide, annoiano, trasmettono l’idea [...]

By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:13:28 +0000

Thanks Irene, for a beautiful exposition of the proper place of bullets. Olivia

By: wong words

wong words — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:07:12 +0000

Bullets are ruining more than Powerpoint. I am beginning to see them abused in text where, for example, 10 paragraphs are bulleted.

Paragraphs are a long established form of navigation, separated from each other with more space than there is btwn lines. Traditionally the first line was indented which helped the break up.

But bulleting each para suggests they are all important. This is is like crying wolf. Bullets are fine for 2 or 3 main key summaries/points if they are very short that is.

In addition, we all know that long bulleted lists of like items can be boring and cause mego (me eyes gloss over). And don’t get me started on bulleted lists where the content isn’t parallel.

I don’t hate bullets. I often break long sentences up by using bullets to list like concepts. They are wonderful when numbered for instructions. We can’t live without them.

But they must be preserved and treasured as the perfect tool for certain tasks. But they fail their readers when authors choose them over other visual and grammatical devices.