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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
slide with a list of bullet points won’t work very well, because text doesn’t jog the memory. PowerPoint visual summary slide. The reason for this is that PowerPoint will stretch or shrink the image to fit the circle; if you include the entire slide, the image will be distorted. So I use a visual summary slide.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Whenever I know I'm about to sit in on a presentation that will utilize PowerPoint, I get nervous. I pray that they will wow me with a PowerPoint deck so amazing that I can't stop talking about it for days. The Agenda slide for said presentation, though, was the norm - a numbered list. Tags: Presentation Design
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Monday, May 18, 2009
With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. Keep in mind that we're talking here about in-person presentations, not PP 'decks' that are designed to be used as a written report. Not the PowerPoint's.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Not so much the content, but the design and delivery. If this information is listed in bullet point format, you've pretty much broken the first commandment effective presenting. Since a presentation can exist without visuals, utilizing visuals (like PowerPoint slides) to serve as a visual backdrop will enhance your presentation.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Let's check that bullet point off the list! Their audiences seem seduced by the glamorous design of the presentation -- or the pleasing, popular personality of the presenter. Here's how to play: Just for grins, let's cover some examples of logical fallacies that we often hear about PowerPoint -- the tool many love to hate.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Will PowerPoint presentations make the kitschy cut? After all, there's a certain black velvet quality to many PowerPoint presentations.as Burns from the Simpsons while presenting with a very 90's slide design is also an excellent kitsch-camp combo. What's on your kitsch list? What's Kitsch? What's Camp? Oh, let's face it.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Read on for insights into better PowerPoint, better speaking and better preparation. Angela DeFinis has written a great post on The Seven Deadly Sins of PowerPoint Design , where she outlines the problems with PowerPoint slides and how to fix them. PREVIOUS "DON'T MISS THIS" LISTS: The Don't Miss This List, Edition 4.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
You may not have heard of Bill Buxton yet, but the Canadian designer and computer scientist is well known in the field of human–computer interaction. Bill wrote a good book in 2007 called Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. are applicable to presentation design as well.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Audio pieces like the Superman theme, or Star Wars, came up in the list. Walter Murch, award winning Sound Designer and Editor for Hollywood, has worked on films like Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather II, and many others. Designing a Movie for Sound”. What was your favorite movie? What made it so memorable?
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
This is the ultimate sign that a presenter has given up on their presentation, at least from a PowerPoint design perspective. By default, PowerPoint presentations use a black font with a white background. You may think this is so obvious that I didn't need to list it, but it's happened to me (as a designer).
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