Experts don't always know best

On a recent episode of a reality show, the teams for a weekly challenge were set up with the services of PowerPoint designers to help them create a business proposal for prospective investors. The teams gave the designers all the information and the designers went off to create the visuals.

When they showed the presentations, I was disappointed to see the same poorly designed PowerPoint I see everywhere else:

** Generic background templates

** One-word titles

** Slides dense with bullets

** Few images, but when images were used, they were tiny and off in a corner

** Typos -- one example: "it's" instead of "its"

I will give credit to the teams; they made a good effort not to read directly from the slides.

Had the show participants, with no PowerPoint experience whatsoever, been the ones to design the visuals, I might understand why they were so bad. But these designers were introduced as "PowerPoint experts." It just reinforces for me why it's so difficult to get people to make the switch to image-based PowerPoint.

If we're shown "experts" creating ridiculously boring and ineffective PowerPoint, why should we take a risk and try something different?

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