Answer to quiz on the blueprint slide

What's wrong with this blueprint slide?

Quiz: What's wrong with this blueprint slide?

The problem with this blueprint slide is that it looks just like the body slides. 

Here are the four slides in the introduction. The blueprint slide (the last one) looks like just another body slide, doesn't it?

Introduction with undifferentiated blueprint slide Introduction with undifferentiated blueprint slide
Introduction with undifferentiated blueprint slide Introduction with undifferentiated blueprint slide

You want your blueprint slide to be instantly recognizable as it reappears throughout the body of your presentation as a moving blueprint slide.

Let's revise it:

Good blueprint slide

It now shares design features with the other slides—yet is clearly distinguishable from them, too. Let's see it in context with the other slides in the introduction:

Introduction with well differentiated blueprint slide Introduction with well differentiated blueprint slide
Introduction with well differentiated blueprint slide Introduction with well differentiated blueprint slide

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