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Foreword | |
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Before you Design | |
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Where to begin? | |
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What's a presentation? | |
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Does it need to be digital? | |
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My personal experience | |
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Yes, it needs to be digital | |
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What's a bad presentation? | |
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The structure | |
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The presenter | |
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The digital presentation itself | |
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What's a good presentation? | |
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Put it in words | |
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Software options | |
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Apple Keynote | |
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Microsoft PowerPoint | |
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Google Presently | |
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Open Office Impress | |
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Get yourself organized | |
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Plan, organize, outline | |
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Old technology Post-it Notes | |
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Outline features in presentation software | |
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Mind maps and idea clouds | |
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Slide sorter or light table view in software | |
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Optimize the Content | |
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Four principles of conceptual presentation design | |
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Clarity | |
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Edit the text! | |
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Avoid lengthy complete sentences | |
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Don't present your notes | |
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Write in the active voice | |
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Avoid the 'ings | |
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Experiment with editing the text | |
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Sometimes you need the text | |
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Spread out the text! | |
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Use all the slides you need | |
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How many slides in a presentation? | |
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But use one slide when appropriate! | |
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Sometimes you need a lot on one slide | |
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Clarity in the design | |
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Relevance | |
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Get rid of superfluous stuff | |
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That includes the logo on every page | |
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Backgrounds | |
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The more complex the information, the simpler the background | |
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When is a busy background okay? | |
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Don't use dorky clip art | |
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Use relevant photos | |
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Video and animated clips | |
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Animation | |
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Animation creates a focus | |
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Transitions and animations as complements | |
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Clearly transition between major topics | |
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Use transitions to keep your audience on track | |
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Use animation to illustrate and clarify | |
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Animate a chart for clarity | |
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The facts about animation | |
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Plot | |
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Make a beginning | |
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Tell us where you're going | |
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Text vs. Images | |
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Find the humans in the story | |
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Find the humans in the audience | |
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Tell relevant stories | |
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Vary the pace | |
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Make an end | |
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And leave time for questions | |
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Design the Slides | |
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Four principles of visual presentation design | |
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Contrast | |
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Contrast with typeface | |
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Contrast with color | |
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Contrast provides substance | |
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Use contrast to organize | |
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Contrast demands attention | |
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Repetition | |
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Repetition creates a consistent look | |
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Repeat a style | |
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Repeat the image, but differently | |
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Unity with variety | |
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Find repetitive elements and design them | |
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Repetition doesn't mean sameness | |
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Alignment | |
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Alignment cleans up individual slides | |
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Alignment cleans up your deck of slides | |
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Alignment unifies your deck | |
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Alignment makes you look smarter | |
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Alignment is a great organizer | |
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Break the alignment-intentionally | |
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Proximity | |
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Create relationships | |
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White space is okay | |
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But avoid trapped white space | |
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Proximity cleans and organizes | |
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Proximity is a starting point | |
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Put it all together | |
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Name the principles used | |
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Beyond the Principles | |
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Learn your Software | |
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Turn your Autofit | |
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Align text at the top | |
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Adjust the spacing | |
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Adjust the space between lines | |
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Adjust the space between paragraphs | |
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Adjust the space from the bullet to the text | |
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Hang the bullets; align the text | |
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Don't squish the images | |
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Handouts | |
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The truth about handouts | |
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It's a permanent record | |
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Post your speaker notes | |
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Ignore these Rules | |
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Never read a slide aloud | |
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Never use serif typefaces | |
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Never use animation | |
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Never use more than one background | |
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Never make a slide without a graphic on it | |
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Never use more than five bullet points per slide | |
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Never use more than two or three words per bullet point | |
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Never use PowerPoint | |
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Never turn the lights off. Never turn the lights on | |
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Never provide handouts before your talk | |
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Never use pie charts | |
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Never use Arial or Helvetica | |
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Listen to your Eyes | |
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Quiz: Listen to your eyes | |
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Checklist for info | |
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Checklist for slides | |
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Sources for fonts/images/video/sound | |
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Index | |