How to create better presentations: “Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations”

Presentation Patterns – niques for Crafting Better Presentations

Silent confession by the majority: Presentations are boring most of the time. Even when you are super enthusiastic about the presentations’ topic, they are more or less a disappointment (and when you are not, you truly experience the death by a thousand slides). It is so rare to witness truly great presentations that I can easily remember most of them even after a decade. It is very easy to criticize a bad presentation and the presenter, but until “Presentation Patterns” came out, it was not that easy to point to a real solution.

I’m so happy that I can simply tell most of the presenters, hopefully before they unleash their minutes and slides of boredom and confusion on me and my fellow sleepers, to go and read this book twice, if not at least three times. But before I hit them on the head with this book (especially the software developers, who mostly believe that practicing something means giving a good and noteworthy presentation about it, even though they have witnessed uncountable evidence against it), I plan to read it for the second time, and then for the third time. And probably every time before I prepare a presentation, until I gather enough evidence to let me think that I’m capable enough to write a book that is even better.