tips for building an awesome presentation
DESCRIPTION
Some tips that will help you to create a presentation the way you always wanted it to be.TRANSCRIPT
You are the
PRESENTATION
We focus too much on reading out the slides
The fear that the audience will miss out
on something
Brain has Limited
PROCESSING POWER
Let’s play a game
UPSIRSFBIJFKNASANATO
If I give you 30 seconds can you remember this
string?
NO?
UPSI RSFB IJF KNA SAN ATO
How about now?
Still hard?
UPS IRS FBI JFKNASA NATO
And now?
Easy right?
And now?
Share ideas not points
Link ideas to tell a story
Number of slidesVs.
Number of points
1 Slide with 10 points=
10 slides with 1 point each
Open
STRONG
Remember, you can't do anything until you
get past the brain's BS filter!
Some strategies for starting strong
HASKINS
25% of smartphone owners of ages 18-44 say they can't recall the last
time their smartphone wasn't next to them.
Meet Fiona
Image Video Audio
Organize Your
INFORMATION
BEGINNING MIDDLE END
Use patterns to manageinformation
Yahoo Pattern Library
Pattern Tap
Polish it
UP
Use quality visuals
Want to depict a team?
Use this
Not this
Use Icons
Experiment withfonts
Font Fabric| Da Font
Use a colour scheme
Adobe Kuler
PowerPoint Inbuilt
PowerPoint is more powerful than
you thought
Yes, these are made inPowerPoint
Everything is a
REMIX
Reverse engineer good designs to suite
your need
An e-learning course inspired by Skype home
Whitespaceis your friend
Some
RESOURCES
Design Inspiration www.creativebloq.com/www.dribbble.com/www.smashingmagazine.com/www.envato.com/www.creativemarket.comwww.designspiration.net
Free Images & Icons www.unsplash.comwww.compflight.comhttp://openphoto.net/http://www.sxc.hu/http://www.morguefile.com/www.iconfinder.comwww.findicons.com
Free Fonts www.dafonts.com
www.fontfabric.com
www.google.com/fonts
www.fontspace.com
www.openfontlibrary.org
Presentation Inspirationswww.slideshare.net
www.noteandpoint.com
www.pitchenvy.com
www.community.articulate.com
Credits Word game: From Read Speeder a free online speed reading course
All images: From www.compfight.com under Creative Commons
Comic example: From http://theoatmeal.com
Cover image: Based on the LineCase –by blaz robar
PowerPoint Graphics: Based on a template by Hub Spot
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