To have a slide deck or to not have a slide deck?

That is the question, or at least it is for many of the clients that I work with and many of the speakers in The Rebel Speaker Facebook group.

Speakers write this great signature talk, and then they start wondering, "Should I have visuals?"

Because they've been in that presentation where you're looking at the speaker and you're looking at the slides, and you think, "What version of eyeball hell is this?"

For speakers, it's really important to have great slides with a great design if you choose to have visuals. It's what makes you a pro.

Today my guest is Adam Tratt, and he knows all about great presentation design. He's the co-founder and CEO of Haiku Deck, an app for creating flawlessly beautiful presentations on iPad or the web. Haiku Deck has been ranked the number one productivity app in iTunes and 50 markets around the world.

We discuss:

• The four design principles that every speaker should know about (and how #3 is the easiest to mess up)
• How Haiku Deck makes designing a presentation deck a breeze
• What Sir Mix A Lot has to do with designing a great an app (he likes big apps and he cannot lie)