Show Before and After Without Overexplaining
Design a before-and-after slide that makes contrast visible fast.
A slide meant to show the improvement in onboarding uses two busy screenshots, three arrow callouts, and a long paragraph describing the new process. The contrast is technically present but visually buried. Use matched structure and limited comparison dimensions so the audience can see what changed without decoding every detail. The common failure is to treat “before” and “after” as a full documentation exercise. When each side contains too much unrelated information, the eye cannot tell which differences matter. The presenter then compensates by overexplaining verbally, which is exactly what the slide was supposed to reduce. Step 1 Decide which…
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