Lessons from PresentationZen, PresentationCamp Seattle

2. First. Step away from the computer. photo by riotjane - 2008

3. Second. Who is your audience? photo by Carbon NYC - 2008

4. Third. What role are you playing? photo by Khalid Almasoyd - 2008

5. What is your story?

7. Ideas. Concepts. Not Slides.

8. Architecture: Story Board Text Text Design 2 Good Graph Design 3 Text Text Storyboard Images Design Principle 1 Cluttered Image Bad Graph Text Story Frames Title & Intro Design 4

9. Design Tips: Four Visual Principles

10. 1. Simplify

12. 80%

13. Avoid animation & sound

14. 2. Signal-to-Noise

18. 3. “White” Space

20. 4. Rule of Thirds

22. Before & After

23. Top Global Web Properties

24. Top Global Web Properties Web Properties Visitors Microsoft 508,000 Google 494,000 Yahoo 476,000 Wikipedia 164,000 New York Times 68,000

29. In A Word: Simplify

31. Share&Share Alike; Attribution; Non-Commercial Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto: How to Succeed In Business, Tomatoes Gates via Flickr ; World’s Worst via Flickr Some materials developed by Meg McGough Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/ @kegill