For many years I have tried making different types of presentation software. It’s sort of a hobby of mine.
The commercial software that is out there — notably PowerPoint and Keynote — is sort of boring. It gets the job done, but there is no liveness to it, no sense of improvisatory engagement.
What I strive for is a way to go beyond the sense that audiences are seeing a canned presentation. In the visuals there should be a sense of live engagement, which matches the feeling of engagement you can get when somebody is speaking live.
After all, when you go to a live talk, you never quite know what the speaker might say. They could just read from a prepared speech (boring), or they might riff on an idea, or dwell upon a thought that seems to resonate with the audience.
Speakers should be able to capture that sort of electric energy in their visuals, so I try to make presentation tools that are capable of that. And isn’t that better than a stupid slide deck?