1.
You
Suck at
Power
Point!
5 shocking design Mistakes
you need to avoid

2.
Approximately 350 PowerPoint presentations
are given every second around the world...
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3.
and approximately
99% suck.

4.
and approximately
99% suck.
But it’s not
PowerPoint
which sucks.

5.
It’s the speaker
(you) who needs
to use it properly.

6.
Let’s learn good presentation design
from other people’s mistakes with...

7.
5
SHOCKING
DESIGN
MISTAKES
YOU NEED
TO AVOID

8.
MISTAKE 1
TOO
MUCH
INFO

9.
Don’t vomit every piece of
information on your slides.

10.
If you’re going to put word for word what
you’re are going to say, hand over the slides
and take a seat instead.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
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BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

11.
YOU’RE NOT GIVING
A DOCUMENT,
YOU’RE GIVING
A PRESENTATION.
If your audience is reading what
you’re saying, then what’s
the point of you being there?

12.
A good trick is to
keep one
main point
per slide.
This helps you with
timing and prevents
your audience from
skipping ahead.
POINT
ONE
POINT
TWO
POINT
THREE
POINT
FOUR
POINT
FIVE
POINT
SIX

13.
Keep it
relevant.
Effective communication
is knowing what to cut out,
so be a merciless editor.
Less slides
means more
time for
interaction.
THREE X X POINT
SIX
POINT
ONE X POINT

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15.
Do the hard work
for your audience and
turn that data into
something which is
meaningful.

16.
MISTAKE 2
NOT
ENOUGH
VISUALS

17.
Deliver a bigger punch
with strong visuals.

18.
There are endless
sources of visuals you
can use to bring your
presentation to life.

19.
Design for this guy.

20.
Design for this guy.
If it’s unreadable, don’t use it.

21.
MISTAKE 3
CRAP
QUALITY

22.
Don’t bore your
audience with
childish visuals.
Invest time in
learning great
design.

23.
a quick tip on typeface:
DON’T USE
$!*#& FONTS!

24.
Tahoma
Microsoft Sans Serif
Arial
Verdana
Courier New
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Lucida Console
Comic Sans MS...
are $!*#& fonts

25.
Google ‘beautiful fonts’
and you’ll find plenty of handpicked fonts
by some of the best designers.

26.
Here’s an
example of a free
font that looks,
um, delicious.

27.
MISTAKE 4
visual
vomit

28.
Whitespace is a good thing.

29.
Be mindful of
spacing and
alignment.

30.
Always keep
everything
nice and tidy.
POINT 1

31.
Having a consistent use of colors,
images & alignment gives a cohesive
look to your presentation.
It also helps to separate your
presentation into recognizable sections.

32.
Use a collection of visual assets
that belong together...

33.
and always stick to a color scheme.
ColorLovers.com is a great
source of color schemes

34.
And the most shocking
design mistake...

35.
MISTAKE 5
LACK
OF
PREP

36.
Most presentations suck because
not enough time went into
making them. Period.
You need to craft the perfect story,
create beautiful looking slides to support it
and then rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.
... and not the night before.

37.
It’s all about being organized
and planning ahead.
Have a system for collecting your ideas
to rework them into a masterpiece.

38.
Design, don’t just slap
something together.
If your presentation sucks,
don’t blame PowerPoint.

39.
TOO
MUCH
INFO
NOT
ENOUGH
VISUALS
HORRIBLE
QUALITY
VISUAL
VOMIT
LACK
OF PREP
Let’s recap...
MISTAKES
TO!AVOID:

40.
I promise to never
design a presentation
that sucks ever again.
(you sign here)