Make%20PowerPoint%20Look%20Good!

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• Make PowerPoint Look Good!
• (...because friends don't let friends use bad
  design)

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Agenda

• Design Guidelines
• Resources
• For More Information ...

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Agenda

• Please feel free to interrupt me at any time.
• This session is for YOU, not me.

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The Bottom Line
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The Bottom Line

• What is the purpose of your presentation?

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The Bottom Line

• What is the purpose of your presentation?
• Don't do anything that detracts from that.

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The Bottom Line

• What is the purpose of your presentation?
• Don't do anything that detracts from that.
• That's it.

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Too Many Words!

• A common mistake among presenters is the
  assumption that a multimedia presentation can be
  treated the same as a report. The problem is
  that reports are meant to be read by one
  individual at a time, while most multimedia
  presentations are given to a larger audience
  while the presenter stand in front of them and
  talks.
• The purpose of a PowerPoint in that case should
  be to reinforce, rather than usurp, the role of
  the speaker. The audience should be looking to
  the presenter for information first, with only
  the key points or relevant visual aids being
  shown on the screen.
• Unfortunately, PowerPoint has the nifty feature
  of shrinking the text to make it fit, no matter
  how much you write. This means amateur
  PowerPointers decide to write until they run out
  of room, but don't really run out of room. The
  result is something like what you see before you
  now text that is too small to read for all but
  the front row of the audience.
• This can be confusing, annoying, or at best, the
  audience will ignore the text completely. But if
  the audience is ignoring your text, then why did
  you bother to write it in the first place?

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6x6x6 Rule
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6x6x6 Rule

• Not really evil.

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6x6x6 Rule

• Not really evil.
• 6 lines of text/slide.

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6x6x6 Rule

• Not really evil.
• 6 lines of text/slide.
• 6 words/line.

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6x6x6 Rule

• Not really evil.
• 6 lines of text/slide.
• 6 words/line.
• 6 seconds to understand.

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Too Many Colors!
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Too Many Colors!

• Can you read this?

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Too Many Colors!

• Can you read this?
• Does it hurt your eyes?

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Too Many Colors!

• Can you read this?
• Does it hurt your eyes?
• Are you uncomfortable?

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Color Scream Scheme
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Color Scream Scheme

• Pick a color scheme with high contrast.

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Color Scream Scheme

• Pick a color scheme with high contrast.
• Keep those colors for the whole thing.

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Animations Sounds
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Animations Sounds

• This is my college roommate.

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Animations Sounds

• This is my college roommate.
• This is also an in-joke.

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Animations Sounds

• This is my college roommate.
• This is also an in-joke.
• I think it's funny.

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Animations Sounds

• This is my college roommate.
• This is also an in-joke.
• I think it's funny.
• But it shouldn't be here.

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Transitions
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Transitions

• Transitions spice up a presentation.

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Transitions

• Transitions spice up a presentation.
• PowerPoint provides a wide variety of them.

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Transitions

• Transitions spice up a presentation.
• PowerPoint provides a wide variety of them.
• There's a strong temptation to use all of them.

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FlamingText.com

http//flamingtext.com/
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Flickr.com/creativecommons

http//flickr.com/creativecommons
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PresentationZen.com
http//presentationzen.com/
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Sources

• http//slideshare.net/tosime/how-to-get-your-slide
  s-noticed
• http//www.presentationzen.com/
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/gabu-chan/57991648/
• http//www.flickr.com/photos/dominicsayers/2375916
  38/in/photostream