You don’t need a “welcome” slide or even an agenda slide ... Data can be much better displayed by using images with simple text. If you must use charts and the works, make them as simple ...

Jobs was famous for simple presentation designs (although Jobs used Apple Keynote software, the same rules apply to PowerPoint). The Apple co-founder preferred image-rich slides over text-heavy ones.

At 50 feet high and rippling out another 170 feet in wavy abandon, the yellow-and-green Giant Slide is among the most ... kids’ faces and how something so simple can make them so happy ...