Focus Attention

No self-respecting presenter or instructional designer would ever willingly overload a slide. And yet… somehow, we all get roped into it. Maybe we’re only allowed a single slide in a shared presentation or something. The single slide gets five points to cover. (Here’s my sarcasm showing: just try and tell me it’s never happened to you.)

There’s the presenter droning on for ten minutes displaying a slide with nothing happening on it. And the audience’s attention? It’s wandering all over the slide trying to find its place. Or… it’s wandering off the slide trying to get away from this place.

It’s a clunky hack (but worth it) to highlight the point you’re talking about. The highlight could be a box or an arrow or anything to point out what the current topic is. Yes, we’d rather have separate slides for each segment, but we have to make do in the real world.