PowerPointlessness
The senseless and excessive use of PowerPoint as a communication medium, characterized by an overreliance of superficial visual effects, such as animated transitions, which detract from the clarity and substantive quality of the presentation.
Noun
- The senseless and excessive use of PowerPoint as a communication medium, characterized by an overreliance of superficial visual effects, such as animated transitions, which detract from the clarity and substantive quality of the presentation.
- Near-synonym: death by PowerPoint
- We do not have to subject ourselves or our students to 'death by PowerPoint' or 'PowerPointlessness' as Jamie McKenzie calls it - 2005, David Clive Nettelbeck, Computers, Thinking and Learning: Inspiring Students with...
- Powerful PowerPoint: Tips for Ending PowerPointlessness ... - 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic Librarianship by Design, page 139:
Synonyms: death by PowerPoint
Origin
Blend of PowerPoint + pointlessness, coined by Jamie McKenzie in 2000.