[eli]

I don't understand how you can design something without even talking to any of the stakeholders. Does the new deck accomplish the goals better than the original? How would you know?

I'm not a fan of unsolicited redesigns. Design is easy when you have none of the constraints of a real project.

[EmilandDC]

I would love to discuss with Mary about it. But I'm pretty sure she has better things to do!

And I agree with you that I don't have all the constraints. But it looks that they just used some of the default Powerpoint charts and shapes, so I just thought I could give it a humble try.

You can see the full-size slides here: http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/kpcb-internet-trends-2014...

[paperwork]

I don't understand all these negative comments. I love the re-design, and I love the general idea of re-designs.

In high-school we used to have 'focus correction areas' where our teacher would put up one or two sentences (poorly written or not) and we would spend a couple of minutes fixing them. The lessons I learned in those sessions have stayed with me, even as I've forgotten rest of the material.

One of the reasons I love Stephen Few's books and website[1] is that he takes bad graphs and improves them. You can see the before and after on the same page.

The only critique I have is replacing bar charts with bubble charts. Comparing the radius or area of two circles is far more difficult than comparing heights of bars.

[1] http://www.perceptualedge.com/examples.php

[judk]

Calling something "ugly" isn't humble.

Putting "humble" in bold is an ironic admission of obliviousness.

[EmilandDC]

"Ugly" is in the title of the article, not in my Slideshare presentation. I just posted the title of the article here.

And I think you are over-interpreting things by seeing irony everywhere.