Lessons From Presentation Zen 4 April 2009 Presentation Camp Seattle 4 April 2009 Presentation Camp Seattle Craft Your Story Visually
First. Step away from the computer. photo by riotjane
Second. Who is your audience? photo by Carbon NYC
Third. What role are you playing? photo by Khalid Almasoyd
What is your story?
Ideas. Concepts. Not Slides.
Architecture: Story Board Text Design 2 Good Graph Design 3 Text Storyboard Images Design Principle 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 PropertiesVisitors Microsoft508,000 Google494,000 Yahoo476,000 Wikipedia164,000 New York Times68,000 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 PresentationZen (book, Amazon)Amazon The Rule of Thirds Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)youtube
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