[F]or anyone who has had to squint at a PowerPoint presentation that was essentially just the unedited text from the reader’s speaking notes, Haiku Deck offers a merciful alternative. In an academic lecture or a business meeting, an overly dense slide show is like a Pavlovian signal to zone out.
For students, colleagues or coworkers who struggle with creating compelling, simple and memorable PowerPoint slides, Haiku Deck from Giant Thinkwell may offer salvation.
The free app for iPads allows users to type in just a few keywords about each slide and then it automatically scours Creative Commons images for bold background photos that tell the story for you. Even better, it plops in correct attribution information for each slide created, a godsend for some class settings, as I’m sure you know.
While the aesthetic may not be for everyone right of the box, a $2.99 expansion pack will provide another 11 themes and there are plans to offer some font packs in future versions to tweak the basic text layout.
Learn more about Haiku Deck at the Co.Design blog.