Flexible Presentations (or Flexibles Präsentieren in German) is the topic and title of the final project I worked on to graduate as a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences & Design Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany.

During the four month period in which we had to finish our project I developed a user interface for a tablet-like device which serves as a guide, a set of useful tools and a bridge between the known control methods for presentations like laptops or those in combination with remote controls.



It enhances and simplifies the presentation experience for the speaker by adding innovative options and providing extended overview to help him sticking with the natural flow of presentations for the sake of him and the audience as well.



The project itself focussed on the execution of the presentation while the concept involved the preparations and postprocessing after the speech, too.



In the concept the presentation is always in sync with the cloud, during all the three processes. The user prepares the slides in a web application, syncs it with the device and after the presentation all the changes he made during the speech will be synced again so they can be distributed, discussed and shared with others.



At the final exhibition at the university I showed a prototype running on an Asus Eee PC T91 and developed as a flash dummy application with amazing help from Steffen Kolb.

The dummy presentation used in the concept is the pitch presentation for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger by Information Architects from January 2009.

Thanks, iA for sharing it. ♥


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(Sorry, all the typographical elements are in German 'cause I studied at a German university ;)