The concept of following around a sort of mind map doesn’t really hold any weight in practice – you may follow it, like that, but your audience won’t. So overall, Prezi, in my own experience, in reality amounts to little more than a basic slide presenter with a neat transition effect that is jittery and can make people feel ill. Some had headaches after only a few minutes.Īlso, Prezi can only really handle fairly static slides individually and so for anything technical it falls down, and requires something a little more powerful. We’ve had several people in the audience of Prezi talks stand up and leave, and when told afterwards that such behaviour is unacceptable, they came out and said that the slides were making them feel sick. To begin with, the transitions are rarely smooth and sometimes even stall completely. This is where the biggest problems have lain and yet it is Prezi’s main feature. Great, but for any mind-map larger than what would fill a 5 minute talk, it will add nothing whatsoever – your audience doesn’t have the time, or the desire frankly, to memorise your map and keep track of where you are at each point (you may do, but they, I promise you, cannot: if they could they wouldn’t need to be at your talk) unless you constantly show them the entire map again, which means zooming out … ![]() In concept, you are showing people around a sort of mind-map by moving the camera (as it were) to different parts of it and focusing on one bit at a time. I’ve been running the slides for a number of scientific conferences of late and a few people have used Prezi, and this is what we found: This is an old post I know, but nonetheless I felt I should add some thoughts.
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