] It has become commonplace to rail against the evils of
] PowerPoint talks; you know, those dull, boring
] never-ending ordeals where the speaker %u2014 or should I
] say "reader" %u2014 displays what appears to be a
] never-ending progression of slides, each with numerous
] bulleted points, sometimes coming on to the screen from
] unexpected directions in unexpected ways, each one being
] slowly read to the audience. PowerPoint should be banned,
] cries the crowd. Edward Tufte, the imperious critic of
] graphic displays has weighed in with a document entitled
] "The cognitive style of PowerPoint," in which, among
] other things, he credits poor PowerPoint slides with
] contributing to disaster with NASA's space shuttle
] Columbia, January 2003.
]
] I respectfully submit that all of this is nonsense.

Don Norman versus Edward Tufte. Quite a matchup.

Is jnd.org something a usability expert really wants to claim for his own? Perhaps it reflects a bit too much on Norman's style.

In Defense of PowerPoint