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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 | |