Articles: Design - 2 views
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nettiemarie on 03 Aug 14great idea toremember
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Use the same font set throughout your entire slide presentation
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I've been terrible about using the same font throughout. I always went for either cutesy for attention or used something out of the ordinary for emphasis. It really does make sense to keep the font all the same.
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consistent visual theme throughout
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). Never simply stretch a small, low-resolution photo to make it fit your layout – doing so will degrade the resolution even further.Avoid using PowerPoint Clip Art or other cartoonish
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line art. Again, if it is included in the software, your audience has seen it a million times before. It may have been interesting in 1993, but today the inclusion of such clip art often
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“chart junk
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love this term... keep it simple only put on the slide what is needed get rid of the "junk"
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Unity. Slides with
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visual unity
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convert each bullet point into a separate image
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what an interesting idea... gives the audience a visual and that will stick with them better then reading text
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The slides themselves were never meant to be the “star of the show”
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So true but how often forgotten. If your slides can speak for themselves, why are you even there to present them? (a question I often posed to my students in hope they'd speak more off the slides than read them)
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Background image has too much salience (text hard to see)
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This is such an easy fix. A good eye will catch this artful contrast. Creating a good PowerPoint is truly an art. Using stock themes and clip art images is cliche, as stated, and truly detracts from the message.
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People should be able to comprehend each one in about three seconds.
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This is a good rule of thumb to try to embrace. The image should strike the emotion of the audience.
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including a healthy amount of white space sharpens viewers’ focus by isolating elements
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Too often avoided, white space does help to focus the eye. Again, a well planned presentation would recognize this element of design.
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there’s beauty and clarity in restraint
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It goes back to simplicity - Keep it Simple - Make your message known through the visual imagery and not the extraneous list of bulleted information.
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If you use more than two lines anywhere, then they’re definitely leaning text heavy.
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Another good rule of thumb I tend to make my bullets just ideas and never complete sentences, but sometimes they do get a little wordy.
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Re-write the highlighted phrases if they are inconsistent with the other simplified bullet points.
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Great technique to pare down extra words to just what's necessary. An easy technique to share with students also.
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This approach
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boring an audience with bullet point after bullet point is of little benefit to them
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when we have too many bullets, the audience focuses on them and not on us
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prepare a written document which highlights your content from the presentation and expands on that content
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expand your verbal information while keeping the number of slides to a minimum
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Use high-quality graphics including photographs
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Have a visual theme, but avoid using PowerPoint templates
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Color evokes feelings. Color is emotional. The right color can help persuade and motivate.
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Use the same font set throughout your entire slide presentation
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people comprehend better when information is presented in small chunks or segments
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Don't overload your audience all at once. Present in smaller chunks of information.
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so that your audience isn’t staring at a wall of text
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the star, of course, is your audience)
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The less clutter you have on your slide, the more powerful your visual message will become.
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if you plan to keep most of the lights on (which is highly advisable) then a white background with black or dark text works much better.
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By getting out of the Slide View and into the Slide Sorter view, you can see how the logical flow of your presentation is progressing.
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your audience should focus intently on what you’re saying, looking only briefly at your slides when you display them.
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have plenty of “white space” or “negative space.” Do not feel compelled to fill empty areas
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Some animation is a good thing, but stick to the most subtle and professional
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choose fonts deliberately.
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I have to choose fonts in class that show the accents and punctuation best and clearest. That is not Arial, even though I like Arial for most of my correspondence. I've found that Comic Sans actually works best for me. I know, it was 'dissed' in one of the articles, but it does work well for me!
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