Appendix B. Extreme Presentation Makeover

This appendix contains an Extreme Presentation™ makeover: a "before-and-after" example of a presentation that was redesigned according to the Extreme Presentation principles. The "before" presentation is based on a real presentation that has been heavily disguised, and is used here with permission. For the purpose of this example, we are pretending that the presentation is a brand update for a fictitious SuperClean vacuums company.

Figure B.1 in this appendix shows the first eighteen slides of this original seventy-five slide "before" presentation. Even a quick glance will show you that this presentation would not have been much fun to watch—or to deliver.

Figure B.1. First Eighteen Slides of the Original ...

Get Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication That Drives Action now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.