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Module 3 Pro8 min read

Project: slides people actually read

Applying every rule to the most common design task in office life.

Here's a safe bet: whatever your job, slides will find you. Presentations are the most common design task in office life — and, not coincidentally, where the worst everyday design lives. Which makes this the perfect final project for the module: a deck is nothing but every rule from this course, applied one screen at a time, in a room full of witnesses.

A slide is a billboard, not a document

The root of all bad decks is one confusion: treating slides as the document. So every fact gets typed onto the screen, the presenter reads it aloud, and the audience — who can read faster than anyone can speak — finishes early, disengages, and checks their phone.

The practical rules that follow:

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