Completely off-topic (well that's my nickname) but I'm seeing on HN more and more beautiful slide decks, from a purely esthetical point of view. This deck has beautiful fonts and a beautiful color scheme, and it is nicely designed.
My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...?
Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?
In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who designed this deck was influenced by some of Holman's previous presentations.
> My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?
author of the talk/slide-deck here. I make all my slide decks with Keynote, primarily because it has the best font rendering and presenter display out of the options available on OS X. They do not use a pre-made theme but I'm always looking for inspiration from other presentations and websites.
Might be out of reach for the average technical developer but that's just because the average developer does not do slides. That stuff can be practiced. My slides got considerably better (I think at least) the more presentations I did.
Very beautiful indeed, and makes reading very easy. My only wish is if the URL's were working, or at least copy+pasting worked too (chrome, windows here). Last page of the document had 4 urls, and had to type them by hand...
My question is: how are they made? Keynote, Powerpoint, HTML...? Are they made with the help of a graphic designer? They look completely outside of the reach of the average technical developer. Or do they use a pre-made theme?