Learning to Design PowerPoints like a Badass
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Tips, tools and tricks to help make presentations stand out about the crowd. Inspiration taken from @jessedee, @slidesthatrock and Don McMillan.
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Learning to Design PowerPoints like a Badass
- 3. Inspiration + talent ≠ good design
- 4. Good design is driven by constraints, considerations,and consistency.
- 6. Please don’t write out everything you’re going to say on a slide. The odds are the people you’re giving the presentation to are going to be reading and not listening to a thing you’re saying. Although this eliminates the need to memorize your talk, it makes the slides crowded, wordy and boring. Plus, your audience reads slides faster than you can talk, so you’ll lose your audience’s attention before you even reach the bottom of your first…
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- 10. world hunger • In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty" • Every year 15 million children die of hunger • For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years • Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days! • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
- 12. www.solstice-mobile.com 3 SECONDS People should get your message in
- 14. DON’T FORGET: People remember 10% of what they hear…
- 15. DON’T FORGET: …but up to 65% of what they hear and see
- 17. • Contrary • To • Popular • Belief • Having • A • Bunch • Of • Bullet • Points • Isn’t • Making • Your • Slide • Any • Shorter. • Avoid • Excessive • Bullet- • Pointing, • Only • Bullet • Key • Points. • Too • Many • Bullet-Points • And • Your • Key • Messages • Get • Lost
- 18. some animation is fine… But too much is distracting and can get REALLY annoying (and give the people in the room a seizure)
- 23. CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY STOP IT. NOBODY LOOKS LIKE THIS
- 24. www.solstice-mobile.com CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY Look for stock photos with natural lighting and people who aren’t looking at the camera. Try to find a visual twist on whatever you’re talking about
- 25. DISOWN YOU if you use clipart, we will
- 33. www.solstice-mobile.com CONTRAST EXAMPLES Contrast makes slides look slick and organized
- 34. www.solstice-mobile.com REPETITION EXAMPLES Repeat colors, fonts and images styles
- 35. www.solstice-mobile.com ALIGNMENT EXAMPLES Line up text, images and watch your margins
- 36. www.solstice-mobile.com PROXIMITY EXAMPLES Group similar or related elements together
- 38. build a story around your audience No context or meaning?You’re giving a boring presentation. Make your audience the main characters (and heroes) of your story.
- 39. cut your intro and ‘about us’ section People only care who you are AFTER they hear what you have to say.Don’t waste precious time on intros.
- 40. keep the presentation short and sweet When was the last time you heard someone complain a presentation was too short? Cut,cut,cut.
- 41. customize your presentation for every audience Every audience is different,your presentation should be too.One- size-fits-all presentations are like one-size-fits-all clothes; they never fit right and usually make you look bad.
- 42. simplify your graphics, drawings and tables People shut off their brains when they see complicated drawings and tables.Highlight what’s important.
- 43. use readable fonts,and don’t emphasize everything Don’t make people strain to read your words.And remember: when you emphasize everything, you emphasize nothing.
- 44. www.solstice-mobile.com don’t read from your slides Newsflash: your audience can read. If there are words in front of people, they’re going to read that and stop listening to what you’re saying.
- 45. 39 www.solstice-mobile.com CONFIDENTIAL & PROPRIETARY
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- 50. WHAT THEY MEAN remember: it’s not about the numbers. It’s about