Steve Jobs HATED seeing this in a presentation

Steve Jobs hated seeing this in a presentation.

It’s something I never thought of before.

I heard it first from Guy Kawasaki

Guy was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984.

He also had the unique privilege of working directly with Steve Jobs and he got to see how Steve put his presentations together, and how he practiced for Apple’s legendary keynote presentations.

Guy Kawasaki and I spoke about how to be a ‘Remarkable Presenter’ and what he said, changed how I presented forever.

Now here’s what blew my mind.

Guy said,

“Steve would use 150-190 point font on his slides when he presented.

but here’s a rule to live by when it comes to presentations:

The size of the font on a slide is directly related to your quality as a speaker.

"If you have a small font, you suck as a speaker
If you have a big font, you're good as a speaker."

I never thought of this before.

But it makes sense.

The more information that's on the slide, the less burden the speaker has to take on for the presentation,

Whereas the fewer the words that are on the slide, the more the speaker has to be responsible for the presentation.

Have a look at this contrast between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and their slides:


Bill Gates:

Steve Jobs:

Can you see the difference in the slides?

Bill’s slides are complicated, messy, and we have no idea where to look.

Steve’s slides are clean, simple, direct, and easy to understand.

So next time you see a slide with 2 headings, and 6 bullet points ....

... there's a good chance, you might not be watching a world-class presenter.

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