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Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

I create…

a product you see from a story you don’t except for when I present

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

That’s a lot for one document

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Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Presentations are part of implementing your solution

what tends to happen

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Craft for that moment after your present

For Content For Messaging For Visuals

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Saving Grace: Pattern recognition

means:

means:

means:

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

The Obvious

Project NameName[Logo/Affiliation]

•Professionality

•Ownership

•Documentation

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

A Good Story…

•Hooks you

•Takes you along for the ride

•Has an arch to it

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Table Of Contents

You know. But the audience sees it on its own.

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Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Create Patterned Content:

Rename to be action items of the slide itself

Create consistencyStructural Consistency is in built -- use it!

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Explaining yourself

•The Facts

•The Endorsements

•The Logic

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Break it up.We “read” in chunks. Create visual boxes of content.

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

A picture is worth 1000 words... right?

... But it needs a message to have words to start

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Add Images

RelevantFits in the spot Has Markers

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

The punchline.

This isn’t all that convincing.

Is this enough?You Should Care!You Should Care!

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Connect the dots.

Contact me to get involved!

-x- will change the situation THIS is why we need to act

-y- will magnify the impact

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Template Workaround

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Do it in stages.

Change font sizes Change text box colours Add graphic box elements

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

So, the moral of the story is...

‣ Add more slides

‣ Make some text smaller

‣ Go take new photographs

‣ Repeat things

‣ Clearly emphasize what we’re to DO

Phnom Penh NerdNight Oct 28 2013Ariana Koblitz: Overcoming Visual Presentation Angst

Thanks, guys!

In particular, thank you to:The Noun Project, for the use of icons under the CC act in particular, the hand shake by Jake NelsenZe Interwebz, for letting me find and use images free under CC