PowerPoint diminishes regional accents, personal idiosyncrasies and charming quirks. Decks don’t charm, people do. But much like how TV newscasters adopt the same mannered vocal cadence in a misguided attempt to project professionalism,
PowerPoint slides possess a mannered visual tone that’s equally recognizable and equally unremarkable. And unremarkability in advertising is a bad, bad thing. Let’s go back to tablets and markers–after all, some of us can draw and not everybody can. That’s remarkable…