Lessons From Presentation Zen

4 April 2009Presentation Camp Seattle4 April 2009Presentation Camp Seattle

Craft Your StoryVisually

First.Step away from the computer.

Second. Who is your audience?

photo by Carbon NYC - 2008

Third. What role are you playing?

photo by Khalid Almasoyd - 2008

What is

your story?

Ideas.Concepts.Not Slides.

Architecture:Story Board

TextTextDesign

2Good GraphDesign

3

Text Text

StoryboardImages

DesignPrinciple

1

Cluttered Image

Bad Graph

Text

Story Frames

Title &Intro

Design

4

Design Tips:Four

Visual Principles

1. Simplify

80%

Avoid animation & sound

2. Signal-to-Noise

3. “White” Space

4. Rule of Thirds

Before &

After

Top Global Web Properties

Web Properties Visitors

Microsoft 508,000

Google 494,000

Yahoo 476,000

Wikipedia 164,000

New York Times

68,000

Top Global Web Properties

2009 Flood

• Initial estimated damage at $125 million

•Three deaths

•27 commercial shellfish areas closed

•8,000 residents in seven water systems told by officials to boil their water

2009 Flood

•Estimate $125 million

•Three deaths

•27 shellfish areas closed

•8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water

2009 Flood

•Estimate $125 million

•Three deaths

•27 shellfish areas closed

•8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water

In A Word:

Simplify

Resources

•PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog)

•PresentationZen (book, Amazon)

•The Rule of Thirds

•Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)

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Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto:How to Succeed In Business, TomatoesGates via Flickr; World’s Worst via Flickr

Some materials developed by Meg McGough

Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/@kegill