Connecting the Dots
In his 2005 Stanford University Commencement address, Steve Jobs spoke about how things you do in your early life, quite often can help you in your later life. He spoke about how some of the things he learned whilst being a ‘dropout’ at university, enabled him to design the user interface we see on all Mac computers (and PC’s) today.
For example, Steve Jobs attended a calligraphy class, and here he learnt about the beauty of fonts and writing styles.
Now, as a presenter, I wondered how I could illustrate the idea of “connecting the dots” so that an international audience would be able to clearly understand the idea.
Below is my attempt to illustrate, using a slide and a little animation, how connecting the dots led me to begin this blog and to get in to the process of writing a book about presenting in English. It also shows how I became interested in photography, which led me to become interested and learn Photoshop and eventually how I became interested in presentational design.
Here is the original speech given by Steve Jobs