I carried out a year long research and design study about how people prepare for and carry out presentations.

For people in many organizations, presentations are a way of life. From business meeting rooms to university lecture halls and even to elementary school classrooms, oral presentations are becoming more and more prevalent each day.

The leading presentation software tool today is Microsoft Powerpoint, a member of a larger category of tools called Slideware, which aid in the easy creation of presentation slides. Though these software tools are easy to use, a study completed as part of this research found that many people today are unhappy by slide-driven presentations.

This project aimed to discover why people are unhappy with modern software-based presentations, and looks forward, in order to create new software that encourage positive presentation practices throughout the presentation planning process.

What did I do?

For my Master’s Degree Thesis project I carried out a year-long study of slideware, and redesigned some of these ubiquitous User Interfaces to support the creation of creative, educational presentations.

For more details, please see the project’s website.