Eliminating navigation buttons at the bottom of slides

[pmichaillat]

Typical slides produced with LaTeX Beamer often include numerous annoying elements:

• Outline of the talk above the title
• Small navigation buttons in the bottom right-hand corner
• Names of the authors and title of the talk at the bottom of the slide

Such clutter distracts listeners and takes their attention away from the main message of the slide—while conveying no useful information. The audience does not need that information in the middle of the talk, so please eliminate those from your slides if you have them.

In particular, the navigation buttons are eliminated by placing
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} in the preamble of your LateX document.