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by derkoe 1253 days ago
https://impress.js.org/ uses this extensively to create impressive presentations.
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The experience on mobile is really jumpy if you try to swipe or pinch zoom.
Those animations are extremely janky on iOS (unsurprisingly)
It doesn’t matter if your slides are plain or not. No one ever thought a talk was good because of how nice the slides’ design was. What matters is having something actually worth giving a presentation about and presenting it effectively, which is all about your delivery and what you put on your slides (good: pictures, diagrams, etc… bad: walls o’ text).
Walls of text too often come with the monotone recital of that very text. But if you’re lucky, the speaker mixes up the order of bullet points or even forgets one which helps you keep your mind engaged and stay awake.
Nah we are animals and flashy movement draws our attention. It has a function.
Flashy movement draws our attention... away from the speaker and the content of the talk. Doesn't help.

Animation can be useful in very small doses if it helps to understand something that is dynamic in nature, but that's it.

That's impressive
Just like overused Powerpoint transitions, I can see this getting old quickly.
I've never seen this before, so not sure how it's normally used. But I like it a lot. Instead of randomly using transforms to add "flair" to your presentation, it looks useful for presenting multiple scales of diagrams in an intuitive way. It's like powerpoint + https://c4model.com/.
it looks like the opening credit sequence to some movie i've seen. maybe a tv show, but the point is that i saw it, it's recognizable, but did not make me remember the name of the show. so will using something like this make people remember your presentation content or just the fact you used some gimmicky effect
Doesn't it look a bit like the opening credits to "Last Week Tonight"?
Goodbye back button