Presentation Slide Design for the
Non-Designer The New Rules of Presentations Christina Quick Henderson PYTD 510, Delivering Training Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book

1) What is your past
training using PowerPoint (or Apple Keynote)? 2) Based on your experience at work or school, what are the traditional “rules” for using PPT?

an inconvenient truth Al Gore

New Rules of Presentations 1)
Design Right-Brained Slides. 2) Tell Stories. 3) Use Pictures.

Great Book!

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Left -Brained Slides <ul><li>People can’t
listen and read effectively at the same time. </li></ul><ul><li>Watching presenters read directly from their slides is really, really boring. </li></ul><ul><li>Slide after slide of bulleted text puts people to sleep. </li></ul><ul><li>Garr Reynolds calls this “Death By Powerpoint.” </li></ul>7

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Rule #1 Design Right-Brain Slides

Read Me!

Photo: Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Rule #2
Tell Stories

Buy Me!

Rule #3 Use Pictures

Vision trumps all other senses.

Rule #10: Vision trumps all
other senses.

Show Faces

Find Beauty

Downsized Dramatize

Use Surprise

Be Funny Image by Kathy
Sierra, via Creating Passionate Users Blog

2% of the world owns
50% of the wealth. Use a Metaphorical Image

The poorest 50% of the
world The poorest 50% of the world owns 1% of the wealth.

New Rules of Presentations 1)
Design Right-Brained Slides. 2) Tell Stories. 3) Use Pictures.

Principles of Graphic Design for
the Non-Designer The New Rules of Presentations Part II Christina Quick Henderson Coming Soon! PYTD 510, Delivering Training Title Inspired by Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book