If we’re being honest, the thought around the content of this theme scares me a bit but the presentation is well done nonetheless! Thanks, Brady!

How to Stop Killer Robots from Destroying the Human Race* :: Note & Point
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Beautiful slides by Jon Brousseau about designing for the multitudes of screen sizes and devices. Illustrations and quality screenshots, a very cohesive deck. Well done, Jon.

Designing for the (multi) Big Picture :: Note & Point
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Custom-ish type? Check. Good contrast? Check. Accent flourishes? Check. Slides worth viewing? Most definitely.

Great deck work from Mary Fran Wiley. Download and study.

10 Things to Make Your Blog Awesomer :: Note & Point
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A heavily-textured and nicely done presentation by Jonathan Lavoie-Lévesque all about location-based apps and api’s presented at FITC Screens 2012. Valuable insight on how Location can dramatically improve user experience, no matter what your platform, brand, screen or app is about.

Thanks, Jonathan!

Location, Location, Location: No Real Estate Agents, Please :: Note & Point
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A few slides by Gregor Martynus highlighting 3 tricks to turn your idea into a webapp. Love that it was focused on (or to) a group of girls in this industry, they need to have a better presence, IMO.

PDF is 25MB, slow connections should view on Speaker Deck

Rails Girls Zürich :: Note & Point
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Not a standard PowerPoint or Keynote but there’s plenty to be learned here from this PDF from Nielson. Layout, colors, contrast, data visualization and even the content itself is robust, dive in.

State of the Media: The Social Media Report 2012 :: Note & Point
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Thinking of taking the plunge into freelancing? Thanos Papavasiliou has a nice little primer to get you headed in the right direction. Check out his thoughts on Typography & WP if you’re not ready to step out into sole proprietorship just yet.

Related, love the note Thanos sent along… “This presentation has a a couple of crappy slides made on purpose ” – sure it does pal, that’s what we all say!

A Freelance Web Designer’s Survival Manual :: Note & Point
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It’s been a while since we’ve posted a full-on art directed type deck, lets remedy that. Helge Tennø is always good for custom slides and finding the right imagery to prop his content up. There’s even a video of him giving the presentation itself if you’re interested in seeing it in context.

For more Helge N&P goodness: 2010 & 2009

How Do We Design For The Everywhere? :: Note & Point
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We’re always happy when causes get the due design attention they deserve. Thanks to Sajjad Husain for his work in putting the data into digestible bits and bytes for us all to consume and for the suggestions on how organizations like the Red Cross can leverage technology to save millions of lives.

Blood Donation System :: Note & Point
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A little curveball from the normal presentations we publish but well worth your time visually. Late last year, Millward Brown gave their predictions for things that could happen in the digital sphere for the year 2012. Some of them came true, some of them are in the process, and some of them still have potential; but what this PDF does have is the awesomesauce. Learn from it.

12 Digital Predictions for 2012 :: Note & Point
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