Presentation Mistakes — Are You Guilty of These?

Thomas Baumgartner
5 min readFeb 9, 2021

If you have some experience with preparing presentation slides, chances are that you’ve already come across the most common mistakes. These include things like using a font size too small to be easily readable, choosing poor color combinations, et cetera. In this article I discuss four mistakes which are less obvious, but just as important to avoid, in my opinion. The images I included compare poor slides (left side, red markers) in which the respective mistake was made to better versions (right side, green markers) in which the mistake was avoided.

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Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.