This is the smaller slidedeck of a three hour talk about getting back to the right way of doing presentations.

1. Presentation

3. Design
State of Presentations today
Why it matters?
3 4 5
1 2
Introduction
Preparation
Q&A

4. Best / Worst
PRESENTATION

5. If keeping someone’s attention
in a lecture was a business, it
would have an 80% failure rate.
Dr John Medina
Brain Rules

6. 

8. Look back
in time…

11. Have only one main idea per slide

Insert only seven lines of text maximum

Use only seven words per line maximum
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The main question is… does this work?

Is this method really good advice?

Is this the appropriate overhead visual

And this slide adheres to the rule!
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13. MIS – DON’T
LEGI – TAKE
FOR BILITY
UNICATION. COMM

15. cannot
The brain
multitask

16. …attentional ability
is not capable of
multitasking

19. Wired

20. Stop your PowerPoint™
before it kills again.
Kathy Sierra

21. PowerPoint™ has become a full-
blown epidemic.
…the victims are company
values such as collaboration,
innovation, passion, vision, and
clarity.
Marty Neumeier

22. The use of the PowerPoint™ presentation
has been a disaster. It should be ditched.
Prof. John Sweller

23. Should it?

24. =

25. You

27. Conceptual
Age

28. Logic
+
Emotions
Image: www.wired.com

29. Symphony Meaning
Design
Empathy
Story
Play

30. Design

31. Story

32. Story
aka Preparation

35. HOW
H
E
R
E

36. In the beginners mind there are
many possibilities, in the expert’s
mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki

37. Start with an open mind

38. …and a pencil

39. Do you know
this guy?

40. Most good ideas can
do pretty well with a
stick in the sand.
Alan Kay

41. Lets get some
exercise…

42. What is the purpose of my talk?
How much time do I have?
What time of the day is it?
What do they expect of me?
Why was I asked to speak?
Who is the audience? What's their background?
Which is the most appropriate visual medium?
What is my absolute central point?

45. Strike a
balance

46. Structure all this…

47. Design

48. What is
Design

49. Look around you

53. Lets take this small test…
a. Times New Roman
1. Redux
2. Redux b. Arial
c. Courier New
3. Redux

54. Design has been

55. Utility
+
Significance

56. Not
decoration

58. Don’t be
by method and
knowledge

59. If you are not prepared to be wrong,
you will never come up with anything
original.
Sir Ken Robinson

65. In the field of design there is the
belief that with more constraints
better solutions are revealed.
John Maeda
Laws of Simplicity

66. Design
Principles

67. C
Contrast
R
Repetition
A
Alignment
Proximity
P

68. Good Design Is As Easy
as 1-2-3
1. Learn the principles.
They’re simpler than you might think.
2. Recognize when you’re not using them.
Put it into words – name the problem.
3. Apply the principles.
You’ll be amazed.

69. Good Design
is as easy as…
1 Learn the principles.
They’re simpler than you might think.
2 Recognize when you’re not using them.
Put it into words – name the problem.
3 Apply the principles.
You’ll be amazed.

70. Good Design
is as easy as…
1 Learn the principles.
They’re simpler than you might think.
2 Recognize when you’re not using them.
Put it into words – name the problem.
3 Apply the principles.
You’ll be amazed.

71. Simplicity

72. Our lives are frittered away by detail;
simplify, simplify.

73. Any intelligent fool can
make things bigger
and more complex ... it
takes a touch of genius
to simplify.

78. Thoughtful
Reduction

79. Simplicity means the achievement
of maximum effect by minimum
means.
Dr Koichi Kawana

80. Occam’s Razor

81. Asymmetry

82. Making Magic of Teaching: The Zen Way
Workshop to enhance presentation design and
delivery skills
Dr Mukesh Chaturvedi & Mohit Chhabra
Aug 30, 2008
Presented by Crucial Moments

83. Making Magic of Teaching: The Zen Way
Workshop to enhance presentation design and delivery skills
Dr Mukesh Chaturvedi & Mohit Chhabra
Aug 30, 2008
Presented by Crucial Moments

84. Making Magic of Teaching
The Zen Way
Workshop to enhance presentation design and delivery skills
Dr Mukesh Chaturvedi
Mohit Chhabra

85. PowerPoint & Visuals

86. Vision trumps all other senses.
Dr John Medina
Brain Rules

87. “
Studies show that recognition
doubles for a picture compared
with text

88. 10%

89. 65%

91. Powerpoints

93. Presentation Excellence is never
accidental! (Work your buns off!)
Tom Peters

95. mohit@chhabra.co.in
mohit@vocalite.co.in
+91 98103 97578