I've always attributed most of the success I've had as a planner to the fact that I learned how to stick images in PowerPoint way before most other people. (Partly because I used to sit through three day product briefings from Microsoft people when I worked on the business).
So basically I've been coasting for the last ten years.
But always conscious of the need for career innovation I've kept looking for the next thing that's going to make me seem interesting again. I've played around with using a tablet a bit, used mindmapping sometimes, but they've not really done it. And it's always puzzled me that more technologists haven't spent time building and developing presentation tools, since there's so much obvious room for improvement. Powerpoint and Keynote seem to have stopped evolving. They're both fine, but they just do what they do.
Well, all hail Schulze and Webb because they're certainly thinking about it. And I love this new interface they've built for 2D presentations, because it changes the way you'd approach a presentation, and that needs doing. And the physicality of it is brilliant, it gets you well away from clicking, which is huge, because clicking instantly makes you feel like you're sitting at your desk not standing on a stage, and clicking normally requires looking at a mouse or something, which puts your attention in the wrong place. Brilliant. Wouldn't you love to play with that? See how it changes the way you present.
Personally I'm desperate for someone to build the next iteration of video in presentation software - I want to be able to use video as effectively as you can
use images. So not just embedding a chunk that grinds away with you
powerless to stop it, but something that lets you talk for as long as
you want while your video loops away behind you and then, when you're
ready, smoothly transitions into the next bit of video which then
similarly vamps until ready.
I hope someone's working on that.
