Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Writing & Communication
A topic within Writing & Communication, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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David JP Phillips (TEDx)
Argues from working-memory research that most slides fail because they load text and speech into the same cognitive channel at once, and sets out concrete rules — one point per slide, images over bullet lists — to stop competing with the speaker.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Richard E. Mayer & Roxana Moreno
Sets out nine concrete design changes, such as removing redundant on-screen text and synchronising narration with matching graphics, each justified by an experiment showing it reduces the working-memory load a slide places on an audience.
link checked 17 Sept 2026