Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

There are many many different technological tools and PowerPoint that are at your disposal to make your slides fancier.

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Wow.

But just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

For example builds.

That’s when you have a slide and perhaps there’s one sentence you hit advance another sentence pops up or something else pops up and it’s almost like a teleprompter for a news anchor.

The problem is you’re asking people to sort of look at you go here.

Go back go back one.

It turns it off and into a reading experience which I’ve already talked about.

People don’t like to read 20 30 40 50 feet away and often I see it as a crutch used by the Speaker because they think it’s somehow cool to read a sentence hit a button read another sentence and it’s just annoying.

I don’t have a single shred of evidence that using builds will help your audience understand your messages better or remember your messages.

My advice.

Don’t waste your time on bills unless you have an incredibly good reason.

If you’re showing someone their new home that you’ve designed and you then want to show how the second floor goes right on top of the first floor and comes together.

Yeah maybe it makes sense but that’s rare and that’s not how I see builds using it.

They’re using it as the poor man’s poor woman’s teleprompter and that’s awful.

Just stick to one idea on the screen that makes a message more understandable and memorable.

The other problem with builds is then you do get back to that whole little bird at the gas station going boop boop boop because you’ve got a constantly advance the screen to get the next element of the bill and it’s quite tedious.