https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw Pick one of the slides from the “World’s Worst PowerPoint Presentations” link provided in the assignment directions. Double click on an empty space below to create a post. Title must include your first and last name, and the article subtitle that goes with your slide example. Submit a complete, thoughtful post approximately 150 to 250 words in length that explains why the "worst" slide example you chose is not well designed according to good PowerPoint design. Specify and describe at least one C.R.A.P. principle that is missing or poorly executed on the slide. Submit a screenshot image of the slide example you chose. en-us 2019-08-30 22:21:58 UTC 2026-03-20 12:56:43 UTC hello@padlet.com asushin https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/378807789 Pick one of the slides from the “World’s Worst PowerPoint Presentations” link provided in the assignment directions. Double click on an empty space below to create a post. Title must include your first and last name, and the article subtitle that goes with your slide example. Submit a complete, thoughtful post approximately 150 to 250 words in length that explains why the "worst" slide example you chose is not well designed according to good PowerPoint design. Specify and describe at least one C.R.A.P. principle that is missing or poorly executed on the slide. Submit a screenshot image of the slide example you chose.

]]> 2019-08-30 22:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/378807789 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381735255 I believe this slide, A Symmetrical Rainbow of Confusion, was poorly executed because it did not display many of the C.R.A.P principles explained in this lesson. The first thing that caught my eye about this slide was its lack of alignment. By looking at the picture, it is evident that the words are placed randomly on the slide and there is no sense of unity. This causes it to look very unappealing to the eye and unprofessional as well. Another aspect that I saw in this slide was its false use of proximity. The use of captions seems scattered and it is difficult to figure out what caption goes to which bullet point. It seems as though they use color to group together similar terms, but at some points the colors blend with others and it will take a while to try to figure out what goes with what. Lastly, this slide displays a poor sense of contrast. Referring again to the colors, they do not stand out in a way that is easily understandable by the person who is looking at it. The larger words on the page also become confusing because some of the colors are similar and others are not.]]> 2019-09-09 16:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381735255 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381926807 The slide “Endless Summary” is unacceptable example of a PowerPoint slide. This slide is all text, because of this, lacks a couple of the C.R.A.P principles. The slide shows no contrast. Contrast means difference and this particular slide has no difference other than text. There is no focal point to grab the audience's attention. The focal point could be an image, chart or animation to capture what the slide is about. This slide is not lacking repetition, but has too much. The slide uses the same word font and color, and only changes the font size once throughout the entire slide. This can cause the audience to get bored of the presentation and disregard the presentation entirely. When making a PowerPoint, the creator should limit bullet points and text. According to Top Ten Slide Tips, “The best slides have no text at all.”  By having no text, the viewers can focus on what the presenter is expressing, rather than trying to read 15 bullet points and feel like they might have missed information when the slide is changed. The background on the slide looks as if it was chosen randomly, without rhyme or reason. This takes away from the professionalism of the presentation, the text is hard to read over the image. The text also happens to be too small which is another reason why the audience might lose interest in the presentation. There should be a visual theme to the presentation, but creators should avoid using simple PowerPoint templates. Audiences have seen PowerPoint templates time and time again, creators should find or create an original theme that grabs views attention.

]]> 2019-09-10 01:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381926807 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381968608 The slide that I chose was the worst one, because the information was lost. This slide had an overload over pictures all in extremely close proximity.  Sure the information on the page was important and useful, however because of the proximity of it all, the useful data was lost. According to the  rules of CRAP, in order to obtain good proximity, the information on the slides are strategically positioned to achieve an organized look. That look was not achieved on this slide. While the rule goes on to state that related information should be grouped together, it is important to remember spacing as well. There was no focal point on the slide. The bits of red jumped out, however when using graphs, it is important to make sure they are presented in a clear manner so that the onlooker of the presentation can keep up and potentially better understand the information being presented. It is possible that the graphs could have been viewed closer for actual relevance. If in fact all of the graphs were needed, it would have been wise to present the information on multiple slides.]]> 2019-09-10 04:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/381968608 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/382974352 The slide that I chose I think was the worst one because the slide for one was a huge block of text and with a power point you want the information presented to be the highlights of a presentation that you will be giving and elaborating on yourself. There are a few tenants of CRAP that this slide ignores though the one I will focus on is Alignment. The purpose of alignment is to make sure the slide design looks good and that nothing is placed randomly on the slide. The slide that I chose the text is thrown onto the slide in two different blocks with the picture of the car being the background. The author of the power point could have had the image smaller and had the text around the image in order to highlight it but the way they presented it just looks sloppy and unorganized.]]> 2019-09-11 20:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/382974352 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384006220 This particular slide is very poorly designed in general and according to the CRAP principles specifically. First of all, it is very easy to see that the charts are insanely small and illegible. Viewers can’t even tell what the data is trying to show or communicate. This forgoes the principle P, proximity. Proximity is the art of organizing things a certain distance apart, not too close and not too far, so that the visual information is both more visually appealing and digestible. Another principle that is ignored is C, for contrast. The dark blue of the dots would be impactful against a white background, but since they are all so small and close together the color bleeds and blends and loses contrast from each other.]]> 2019-09-13 21:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384006220 kari_lesueur https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384021651 This PowerPoint slide is indeed poorly constructed in terms of PowerPoint design. There are a couple of the C.R.A.P. principles that are being badly represented here. Although there is light and dark variation in color, there is no contrast in space. There are FAR too many graphs crammed onto the slide. It is very confusing and aesthetically displeasing. It is an example of using too much repetition, which is also one of the C.R.A.P. principles. Some repetition throughout a slide/ group of slides has the power to tie everything together. However, when done in an over-stimulating way, it will take away from the message thus becoming a distraction. If these weren’t enough reason to be turned away from this slide, the title is overkill. The expectation of a PowerPoint is to captivate and educate the reader by simple, easy to understand means. This slide clearly does not meet these standards. A revision is in order. 

]]> 2019-09-13 22:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384021651 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384183059 "100 Graphs in One Little Slide" is the worst designed slide in the article. It is missing some of the important elements of the C.R.A.P. principles. One element it is missing is the contrast element. Although the blue stands out against the white, there are so many graphs in the slide that it loses its contrast. It all blends together, which makes it lack a focal point. This causes the audience unsure of where to look at, making it hard to take in the information that is trying to be given. It is also missing the P, or proximity, principle. The proximity principle is about creating a cleaner and more organized look by grouping the information closer together or farther apart. In this example, the information is grouped very close together, causing the readers to think and work to figure out what is going on. With the P element missing, the slide is very messy and visually displeasing to look at. A strong powerpoint presentation should be simple, so that the audience can focus and absorb the information given to them. This slide is very confusing and hard to read, making the information almost impossible to decipher. ]]> 2019-09-14 20:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384183059 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384343916 This slide, while being the first in the article, was arguably one of , if not the worst of the bunch. This is partially due to my personal bias as I have had recent vision issues and slides like these are my worst nightmare. This slide fails at the first letter of CRAP, contrast. Contrast is extremely important in a visual presentation. Information and organization of the slide could be great, though if there's no contrast in the visuals it means nothing. The background of the entire slide is actually a picture, one with a wide array of colors both light and dark. The black texts makes some words okay to read and others harder. Choosing a font color with a picture background is a matter of picking the lesser evil, hence why it shouldn't be done.  Contrast has more elements than just color, and this slide failed at more than just color. The bullet points, very lengthy as it is, are not consistently placed. The first bullet is in the orthodox position, though the second one starts by being indented more than halfway into the screen.

]]> 2019-09-15 18:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384343916 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384380655 First of all, this slide had too many words that I did not want to read. Many people listening or looking at this slide would have been sleeping or daydreaming because it has so many words. It looks like if it was just copied and pasted. It doesn't show that the presenter tried to make the audience engaged. This just make it look very lazy. It might contain very important information but it would have been easier to use bullet points and point out the most interesting and important stats. This slide does not have proximity and it lacks the organization. It is simple it it just a mess where there is just words and there is not image or something for the audience to be engaged. This can be improved in many way but it is better to know that the audience comes first. It is important if you were the audience how would you want to be presented. This can be useful in the future and can really help the audience and yourself in many ways.

]]> 2019-09-15 21:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384380655 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384395272 Although it is important to provide your audience with the information they need, this slide provided too much and only became an information overload. This slide is specifically lacking in a balance of contrast and proximity. The background is a creme color with a transparent image that makes the block of text dull and difficult to be engaged in. In regards to the proximity, because the words are high in volume and tightly aligned together they cause too much repetition and present the information in a boring or intimidating and so it will be less likely that any would engage in this power point. The alignment in this slide also looks off, where because there is not break between each paragraph the block .]]> 2019-09-15 23:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384395272 blkohlme https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384400188 This slide is the first example and maybe even one of the most common mistakes of  what presentations end up looking like. It uses a blown-up photo of a car, which takes up the entire slide. It is also very wordy and drawn out in what it is trying to say, which makes it very uninteresting to anyone viewing it. I am very bothered by this problem in slide shows and feel it is common knowledge not to place large blocks of text over images; this creates a slide that is difficult to read without ease. It did not follow the guidelines of the CRAP’s principles, one of the most noticeable elements would be contrast. There was an opportunity for this principle to be used in this slide, but the presenter completely missed it with the picture taking up the entire view and a very wordy post over top of the entire image. Another principle that could have been used was alignment, this could have also aided in the use of contrast. Summarizing what the presenter was trying to say and doing some reorganizing to the layout could have created a more readable and interesting presentation.


]]> 2019-09-15 23:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384400188 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384407099 After reading the article the “World’s Worst PowerPoint Presentations”, I quickly came to the conclusion that “A Symmetrical Rainbow of Confusion” was one of the worst designed slides within the article itself. This particular slide has not one of the four C.R.A.P. principles applied appropriately within it. There is no clear contrast shown in the slide, this random array of colors is not only confusing to the viewer but in my opinion incredibly distracting from any point that was trying to be made. Honestly, I really didn’t even know where to begin looking when I first came across this slide. Secondly, along with poor contrast, this slide also has no alignment to its arrangement of scattered bullet points. This absence of alignment once again causes a sense of confusion to the viewer and even begins to diminish the credibility of the slide itself. The final principle I noticed was the misuse of proximity between the bullets and their descriptions. Even though each bullet is categorized by color, half the time this color doesn’t coincide what so ever with the group they’re a part of. Overall, the slide is unbelievably unorganized and unclear of the point that is trying to be made.  ]]> 2019-09-16 00:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384407099 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384408721 While looking at the article with some of the worst PowerPoint presentations, I decided that this particular slide is one of the worst. This presentation seems to not follow the C.R.A.P. principles and it makes it very hard to understand the information on the slide. First, I think this because the slide has no contrast. There is no contrast because there is an abundance of colors while also having no focal point. The second problem with this slide is there is no proximity, it seems as if there is no rhyme or reason to why things are placed where they are. This therefore creates no alignment in the slide making it very hard to follow the information that is trying to be conveyed. This slide would be better if the words were aligned to one side of the slide and were in proximity of related items. This slide is definitely one of the worst examples in that article because of its confusing nature. ]]> 2019-09-16 00:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384408721 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384432729 This article really caught my eye due to the fact of how tiny the font was as well as how many words were crammed in this article. For any reader it was a very hard article to read. It actually hurt my eyes trying to read it. According to the CRAP concept, the coloring was a bit off. The font was terrible and too small, there were just way too many words. The background color in my opinion was too bright for the font to be seen clearly, the contrast therefore is off,which is a concept to CRAP. To make this article more proper, the article needs to be broken down to maybe more slides with way less words, as well as bigger font, with one darker background color that makes the reading more visual. Then the proximity can maybe be fixed as well. Most readers wouldn't even read this article from the start just due to how long and overwhelming it is. ]]> 2019-09-16 02:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384432729 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384441607 While looking at this slide, i find it rather distracting because there is too much wording. it is very hard for a reader to try and read all the information on the slide or even focus to what is being said. This slide lacked pictures to help promote what was being said. The font was too small and there was too much on the page. the back ground picture was also not a good picture, it made the writing also hard to read. Ways to fix this slide would be to break up the writing and only put things that need to be on there. When making a slide, you need to make it most appealing to your audience and put what they want to see rather than you. You don't need to put your entire presentation on a slide, for the most part it should be memorized and you look at it for a reference. Also put a soft and soothing color in the background to make certain important things pop out. ]]> 2019-09-16 03:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384441607 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384447434 My lord I can't make out a single thing on this slide.  Not only can you not see the graphs but you can barely make out what the text on the top says even if you're an inch away from the screen.  The this slide has decent a decent color scheme.  But the whole jumbled mess of microscopic graphs makes this slide feel like CRAP.   While all of the graphs are aligned just the size of the graphs make it virtually impossible to see anything.  The major issue is the proximity of all of the graphs.  If they made them larger and more spaced maybe, 2 on a slide or 4 maximum, it 
wouldn't be near as bad.  Just spread them out over multiple slides PLEASE. ]]> 2019-09-16 04:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384447434 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384452939 While I looked at this slip I was very bored and could not focus on what was important. The lack of contrast in the slide instantly caused me to lose interest in the slide. There were not many things that caught my attention and made me want to pay attention to what was happening on the slide. Also the bullet points are very wordy. This made me feel as if I was reading a paper instead of an slide. Whenever I have seen someone with a slide like this, it often meant that they were just reading off the screen. By making the bullet points smaller or less wordy, there would be rooms for pictures. Using pictures would liven up the slide and grab more attention. This would also mean that the speaker would be able to pay more attention to the crowd because they would not be able to just read off of the slide. ]]> 2019-09-16 04:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384452939 https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384461199 There are many reasons why this slide is part of the "world's worst ever PowerPoints". It is an eyesore because there is so much going on that my eyes can’t focus on any part of it. There are too many colors used in the fonts, in the graphs, and in the design on the far left side. My eye keeps jumping around from all of the blue dots in the graphs, to the strange stripes going up the left side, to the awkward space near the top where the title is in an obnoxious color. There are far too many graphs shown; the amount of data shown has the opposite of its intended effect, too much data takes away from the importance of it. All of these aspects are breaking the first C.R.A.P. principle: contrast. There is no contrast to focus your eye on and point out the most essential information. This slide also does not make use of proximity, it puts all the content too close together so that it is too busy and too hard to read. If there were fewer graphs and had some space between them, they would be much more effective. All in all, this PowerPoint slide is distracting and confusing due to its lack of contrast and use of proximity. 

]]> 2019-09-16 05:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/asushin/auy2zhr1s8tw/wish/384461199