I genuinely think that it pays to make a presentation as generic black-on-white or white-on-black as possible.
Why? People have trained for decades on these templates, sitting through boring talk after boring talk, slowly learning how to extract as much info as they need from a glance.
The real meat of a talk is what the person is saying, and if the slides are too fancy, then people are forced to split focus.
Why? People have trained for decades on these templates, sitting through boring talk after boring talk, slowly learning how to extract as much info as they need from a glance.
The real meat of a talk is what the person is saying, and if the slides are too fancy, then people are forced to split focus.