Presentation Visual Materials are Not Documents.
They are tools that make visual communication possible.

However, there are still a large number of people who understand and considers Presentation Designs as ‘making documents’.

If you think so, it’s a wrong conception and wrong notions.

Presentation Visual Materials are not documents, rather they are tools that make high level of visual communication possible.

Some people may say, “It doesn’t really matter whether it’s ‘documents’ or ‘visual communication tools’. However, depending on how you regulate and understand such behaviors like ‘presentation visual material’ and furthermore ‘presentation design’, the characteristics and direction of production will change a lot. Let’s just simply take a look at books that are written based on the topic of presentations; there are so many that regulate the process of presentation visualization with the techniques of writing documents and papers. The phenomenon like this clearly appears in not only related books but also in the process of preparing for actual presentations.

While preparing for a presentation, people focus on organizing, polishing, refining or coloring visual elements on each slide trying to make the planning document stand out when they are completed with the planning document. Presentation design here is same as lubricating the completed planning documents to look awesome. Even more, some people start the visualizing work together at the stage of writing planning documents. This is a wrong phenomenon and outcome that was caused by understanding the behaviors of presentation design in the category of writing documents.

Presentation Visual Materials are NOT Documents. That is advanced, high level of Visual Communication Tool.

“Words” of presenters are delivered through the hearing of audiences, and presentation visual materials help with understanding and persuasion through sight of audiences. Presentation visual materials are the main communication tools of business presentation along with “words”. With that reason, I love calling presentation designs as “Visual Communication”, and I enjoy saying it.

Authentic interpretation and definitions for Presentation Design and Presentation Visual Materials is urgently needed.
Depending on the interpretation and definitions of them, the visual materials can either become a document that disturbs presentations or a must-have delivering tools for persuading audiences.