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The Art of Slide Design: Maximise Signal, Minimise Noise

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This post is part of The Art of Slide Design series. In each post, we look at a design principle to understand how to create more compelling slides. This week we'll look at the signal-to-noise ratio. Follow along and subscribe to my newsletter to get regular tips to improve your slide design. When I was a teenager, I had this old radio. While other kids my age were happily listening to songs on their CDs and MP3 players, I had this old radio to listen to music while doing my homework. The majority of radio stations I wanted to listen to I could easily reach, but there was this one station that was just out of reach from us. Some days I could tune in and get enough of a signal to listen clearly, but more often than not there would just be too much static. It would be too noisy to hear the music properly. This can happen with our slide design as well: we can make our slides too noisy, too busy, and too distracting, that it takes away from what we're trying to say. Our first slide design

This post is part of The Art of Slide Design series. In each post, we look at a design principle to understand how to create more compelling slides. This week we'll look at the signal-to-noise ratio. Follow along and subscribe to my newsletter to get regular tips to improve your slide design and other posts about speaking, management and employee evangelism. When I was a teenager, I had this old radio. While other kids my age were happily listening to songs on their CDs and MP3 players, I had this old radio to listen to music while doing my homework. The majority of radio stations I wanted to

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