1. A Presentation on Presentation Design

2. Presentation Basics To create your presentation: Research your content
Identify your audience
Choose a design
Write appropriate text
Add appropriate graphics and animation

3. Slide Design - Animation
Use consistent animation for text and graphics
Change the animation to emphasize a point, but do so sparingly

4. Slide Design - Theme Provides unity for presentation
Use a Microsoft-supplied theme for most presentations
Customize a theme for a unique presentation

5. Slide Design - Layout Vary slide layout to build audience interest
Use 2 to 4 layouts in a presentation

6. Slide Design - Bullets Use 2 to 6 bullets per slide
Write short and interesting bulleted text
Remind the presenter to explain text in detail

7. Slide Design - Text Use large fonts Body text level 1 – size 36 to 44
Minimum font size should be 26

8. Slide Design - Color
Use color for text, background, slide placeholders, and objects
Use contrasting (complementary) colors to improve readability For example: Use light text with a dark background