new rules for power point presentations (revised)
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Slide deck from recent presentation in my grad school class, Delivering Training. Teaching fellow trainers-in-training how to give better presentations. Watch video from April 13 training session recorded on April 15, 2009 at http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Viewer/?peid=b4d26217a51d4084882eca5dcbd0f1b6TRANSCRIPT
Presentation Slide Design Presentation Slide Design for the Non-Designerfor the Non-Designer
The New Rules of Presentations
Christina Quick HendersonPYTD 510, Delivering Training
Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book
1) What is your past training using PowerPoint (or Apple Keynote)?
2) Based on your experience at work or school, what are the traditional “rules” for using PPT?
an inconvenient truthAl Gore
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New New RulesRules of of PresentationsPresentations
1) Design Right-Brained Slides.2) Tell Stories.3) Use Pictures.
Great Book!
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Left -Brained Slides• People can’t listen and read effectively at the
same time.• Watching presenters read directly from their
slides is really, really boring.• Slide after slide of bulleted text puts people to
sleep.• Garr Reynolds calls this “Death By
Powerpoint.”7
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Death by PowerPoint
Rule #1 Design Right-Brain Slides
Read Me!
11Rule #2 Tell Stories
Photo: Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette
Buy Me!
Rule #3 Use Pictures
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Vision trumps all other senses.
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Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
Show Faces
Find Beauty
DownsizedDramatizeDramatize
Use Surprise
Be Funny
Image by Kathy Sierra, via Creating Passionate Users Blog
2%2% of the of the worldworld
owns owns 50%50% of the wealth. of the wealth.
Use a Metaphorical Image
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The poorest The poorest 50%50% of the of the worldworldThe poorest The poorest 50%50% of the world of the world
owns owns 1%1% of the wealth. of the wealth.
New New RulesRules of of PresentationsPresentations
1) Design Right-Brained Slides.2) Tell Stories.3) Use Pictures.
Principles of Graphic Design for Principles of Graphic Design for the Non-Designerthe Non-Designer
The New Rules of Presentations Part II
Christina Quick Henderson
Coming Soon!
PYTD 510, Delivering Training
Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book