A “build” is a slide or series of slides the shows items on a list one by one. Each new item is usually placed below the previous item so that the presenter can focus the audience’s attention on the content he or she wishes to address at that moment. Using a build reduces the distraction of having more information on the screen than the presenter is actually discussing. And when finished, it shows all of the related list of information together.
It is one part of a solution as to what to do with a list, especially a bulleted list, so as to not overload your audience with too much content. Another part of that solution is to only use keywords and avoid full sentences in your list.
These two concepts together, using a build and using only keywords, can help tame some of those horrible bullet lists we have all come to hate.
