Are you guilty of using the same slide deck, year after year for your teaching? Have you sat through presentations that are not only ugly, but confusing? Poorly designed slides can affect your audience’s attention as well as their ability to learn. Join Andrea Horne Denton (Head of Research and Data Services) and Kimberley R. Barker (Librarian for Digital Life)- both of UVA's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library- as they outline the basics of learner-centered design, share examples of well-designed presentations, and introduce you to tools and resources which will make creating beautiful, well-organized PowerPoint presentations as easy as clicking your mouse.
You may also hear a recording of the class that was taught on June 21, 2016 at https://vimeo.com/171769495
3. Goals today
• Learn strategies related to data presentation
• Learn about resources for images
• Learn about ideas to consider while creating
presentations
• Learn basic tips for good presentation design
4. Speaking of design
• Presentation design and interior design
• Rules
• Personal expression
9. Tip 1: use bullets as talking points
• Slides aren’t documents aka “slideuments”
• Slides shouldn’t be your teleprompter
Duarte, p. 7
10. The audience will either read your
slides or listen to you.
They will not do both.
So, ask yourself this: is it more
important that they listen, or more
effective if they read?
Duarte, p. 7
11. To keep bullets brief
• No sentences
• Two lines per bullet (?)
• Four bullets per slide (?)
• It’s OK to go on to the next slide!
• Think headlines
Duarte, p. 150; Kosslyn p.
12. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222
13. Learning to Ride
• Put training wheels on the bike
• Raise the training wheels so you wobble
• Wear clothing and helmet to protect yourself
• Remove the training wheels and practice falling on
the grass
• Enjoy riding your bike wherever you need to go
Duarte, p. 222
16. Rudolph in action
• A PowerPoint feature
• That’s actually helpful!
• Focuses attention
• On what and when
Kosslyn (Martians)
Use PowerPoint’s Animation feature, and Effect Options.
Choose After Animation to Hide or Dim
26. Imagery: fonts as images
Fonts create different moods,
and also evoke different feelings.
Do you see what I mean?
How does this font make you
feel?
How about this one?
37. Pie Chart: Concerns
• Don’t use special effects
• Shadowing
• 3-D
• Color choices are not pleasing (non-complimentary)
• Don’t use to display more than 2 – 3 data points
• We can’t discern relative areas well
http://www.sensoryspectrum.com/dkcms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Presentations/Sensory%20Data%20Visualization%20poster%20Sensory%20Spectrum.pdf
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39. Bar Chartis Better!
• We’re still comparing parts to the whole
• We see differences in length more accurately than
differences in area
• Simple color scheme doesn’t detract
• Percentage labels on the bars
40. Tip 3: Space bars effectively
DATA VISUALIZATION 101: HOW TO DESIGN CHARTS AND GRAPHS
44. Hues vs. spectrum
Anthony Robinson shows how spectral colors make it much harder to tell the difference in
volume of tweets (which is quantitative data) during the 2012 presidential elections:
49. Resources
• Data Visualization 101: how to design charts and graphs
https://visage.co/content/data-visualization-101/
• Duarte, Nancy. Slide:ology : the art and science of creating great
presentations. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2008.
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u4824098
• Kosslyn SM, Kievit RA, Russell AG, Shephard JM. PowerPoint(®)
Presentation Flaws and Failures: A Psychological Analysis. Front
Psychol. 2012 Jul 17;3:230. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00230.
eCollection 2012.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822402
• Kosslyn, SM. PowerPoint for Martians?
http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/powerpoint/
• Rowh, Mark. Power up your PowerPoint: seven research-backed
tips for effective presentations.
www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/01/presentationas.aspx
50. Additional Readings
• Duke University Libraries Introduction to Data
Visualization: Chart Dos and Don'ts