Technical Presentation
I must have created dozens of presentations for colleagues, customers, and public appearances over the course of my IT career. PowerPoint has been my most natural and reliable slide-making choice for many years. But this year the situation has changed radically. Between February and May, I had the chance to speak at five conferences, and the slides for the reports had to be prepared very quickly and in high quality. Delegating the part of the work that entailed visual slide design to other people did cross my mind.
Once I tried to work with a designer by e-mailing .pptx files back and forth, but the work had turned into chaos: no one knew which version of the slides was the latest, and the layout was seriously off due to PowerPoint and the fonts' version discrepancies on our machines. That’s when I decided to try something new. I did try it, and I haven’t considered going back to PowerPoint since.