Design Tips for PowerPoint

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Design Tips for PowerPoint

• 1st Backgrounds Templates
• Best fonts
• Bullets 6 is max
• Content is king!
• Words on a slide 25 or less
• Images key
• Content and layout provided by Professor Keri
  Stephens

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A picture isworth athousand words
PowerPoint morevisual than written
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PowerPoint rules
Templates color schemes
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Pick a good template

• Match the mood
• Look professional

• Dont get the blues
• medium blues
• navy blue OK

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Bluesy templates yikes!
Azure
Bluediagonal
Soaring
Lock key
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Use high contrast colors
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
Brightondark
Darkonbright
EVIL
EVIL
EVIL
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Why high-contrast?

• Your PC screen is hi-res
• everything looks great
• dont trust it!
• big displays wash out colors
• always TEST on final equipment
• alter templates defaults as needed

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See for yourself

• Which line is easier to read?
• Which line is easier to read?

Which line is easier to read? Which line is
easier to read?
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Be font savvy

• Sans serif good
• Arial
• Arial Black
• Futura
• Tahoma

• Serif bad
• Times New Roman
• New York
• Courier

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Which is easier to read?
Lessvisualcomplexity
Strongerlines
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named
Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree
from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear named
Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and a law degree
from Texas Tech. He was allergic to chocolate.
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Dont waste bullets

• use
• no
• more
• than
• 6
• in a list

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Observe the limit

• 25

More looksbusy
words per slidemax
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Avoid death by cheese

• Weird sound effects
• Most transitions
• Flying text
• Strange animations
• Bad clip-art

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Clip-art Hall of Shame
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Content is King!

• Single phrases
• Short lists
• Quotes
• Photographs
• Video