1. PowerPoint Presentation Design
Ms. Wear
Monday, October 01, 2012

2. Overview Color and font Slide content Purpose of PowerPoint
Design Do’s and Don’ts
Presentation Do’s
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3. Color Always choose high contrast colors for text and background.
Light on Dark
Dark on Light
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4. Service Delivery
The text colour choice is poor – not enough contrast with background making it hard to read
Local Government seeks to provide much-needed
services and peace dividends to its people. In order to
meet this goal, it needs to:
Provide its communities with a secure environment
Improve its own capacity to jointly identify, plan, prioritize, implement and monitor/evaluate humanitarian, recovery and development projects with its communities and partners
Coordinate existing UN and NGO activities (“service delivery”)
Reduce its dependency on external support through a gradual process of fund raising, capacity building, absorption & direct execution of projects
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5. Font Decorative fonts are hard to read.
Serif fonts are harder to read.
Sans-serif fonts are easiest to read.
For example:
Arial
Verdana
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6. Font Big text is easier to read than small text.
32 pt+ for text
24 pt+ for graphics
ALL CAPS CAN ALSO BE VERY HARD TO READ WHEN OVERUSED.
Don’t underline. It looks like a link.
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7. Font
Very large type that takes up a whole slide is hard to read and a little overwhelming.
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8. Slide Content Use pictures whenever possible.
Too many cute pics can be distracting.
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9. Purpose of PowerPoint PowerPoint slides should:
Organize your talk
Focus your audience
Summarize your main points
PowerPoint slides should not:
Contain ALL your content
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10. Design Don’ts Do not put too much information in one slide.
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11. Bad Example – Too much info
AWD Case Fatality Rate (%) Unacceptable Levels (>2%) Combined with Concentrated Displacement (May 3, 2007)
Galgadud, Dhuusamareeb (3.4%)
Hiran, Belet Weyne (3.6%)
Shabelle, Marka (3.4%,) Afgoye (5.3%), Brava (2.6%)
Loss of Livelihoods, Income & Assets Combined with Sharp Food Price Increases (between mid-March & end April)
Import Commodities Local Cereal
Central 11-25% no change
M. Shabelle % 9%
L. Shabelle 15-60% %
Hiran % no change
Bay % %
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12. Design Do’s Keep charts and graphs simple. 29 November 2018
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13. Too much information
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14. Simple is Better
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15. Design Don’ts Animation should be used sparingly Limit animation to
slide transitions
show multiple photos per page
Sound should generally not be used
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16. Design Do’s Use animation to show multiple photos on one slide
Animals:
Horse
Dog
Animals:
Horse
Dog
Cat
Animals:
Horse
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17. Design Do’s Use a consistent design throughout.
Expand one slide into two if it looks busy.
Have one concept per slide.
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18. Design Do’s Use the Slide Master. Write your content, then format.
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19. Presentation Do’s Always start with an overview slide.
Always end with a summary slide.
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20. Summary How to use font and color How to format slides
How to use slides to augment your presentation
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