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What made it great?
Where?
Who?
Ian Jukes David Warlick Steve Jobs Dick Hardt
Based on the article Avoiding Seven Deadly Multimedia Design
and Presentation Sins by Thomas H. Cunningham.
Letter fonts are too ornate
Thereare toomany different fonts There are too many DIFFERENT font styles And there are too many different font
colors
Avoid the temptation to use fancy fonts Choose one that is easy to read!
Limit to one or two letter fonts Limit to one or two letter styles Limit to one or two letter colors
Be Consistent!
If you must use an ornate font, use it with only a few words
Use ornate fonts correctly
OLD ENGLISH
Old English
Font sizes and/or graphics are too small
Font sizes and/or graphics are too small
Font sizes and/or graphics are too small
Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter
Font sizes and/or graphics are too small
Image Source: Flickr User InSectHunter
Do not rely on default font sizes
Sometimes they will be too small for people in a large room to read
Think of the people in the back row
Try the 10-foot rule
Too Busy!
The background and text color combinations do not have
enough contrast for legibility.
Make sure that designs and colors in the background don’t conflict with the text
Avoid the color red for text
Never crowd too much information onto a single screen.
Doing so distracts the participant’s attention and forces them to really concentrate in order to merely understand your presentation. It’s best to focus the items in your presentation to only include important points.
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K.I.S.S. Usually less is more!
Keep screens simple and clear
Do not crowd text
Give more information as you speak than is presented on your slides
Follow the eight-by-eight rule of thumb
Generally:
No more than eight words per line
No more than eight lines of text per screen
Use key words
Use contrast
Not leaving a screen up long enough for participants to take notes
Leaving a screen unchanged for too long
If you will not refer to onscreen information for a while, insert a blank slide
Use the handout feature so participants don’t have to take copious notes
Build suspension by progressively revealing information
Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects Overusing special effects
Be consistent in the use of special effects (flying text, dissolving, etc.)
Avoid “eye candy” except to add emphasis
What’s more important:Your message or your special effects?
Presentation is all text, no pictures Using only text can be a real drag.
Today’s audience demands a more visual presentation. They want to be entertained while you are teaching them. That’s just the way it is.
Don’t forget that you’re
working with a visual media!
Use pictures, charts,
graphs, and cartoons!
Color Wheel
Photos!
Google Images:
http://images.google.com/
Flickr Storm:
http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
Photos!
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http://www.flickr.com/
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http://www.creativecommon.org/
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Darren Draper
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