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Only the essence. Few words. Items in order. No extraneous data you'll ignore ... Anecdote from Presentations Magazine. 9/5/09. Hale - Huff - Patience. 21. Your ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Design Guidelines


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Design Guidelines
  • Guidelines to help avoid common presentation
    mistakes

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Design Guidelines
  • Simplicity is your friend
  • Lots of white
  • Organized
  • Path for the eye
  • Rule of seven
  • Color and contrast
  • Typography
  • Content

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Simplicity is your friend
  • Content is center stage
  • Draw attention to presentation, not special
    effects
  • Text
  • Graphics
  • Sound
  • Background
  • Colors
  • Consistency - slides, bullets, fonts

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Simplicity Is Your Friend
  • Content (and speaker) is center stage
  • Draw attention to presentation, not special
    effects
  • Text, graphics and background
  • Sound
  • Colors
  • Consistency - slides, bullets, fonts

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Lots of White Space
  • Too much filler will overwhelm the viewer
  • Makes your eyes tired
  • You wont bother to read it
  • If you have a lot of information to share in a
    slide, consider either using PowerPoint to
    display the point and you discuss it, or break
    things up in to several slides
  • You need a place for the viewer to focus on as
    you discuss a point - otherwise, he or she could
    just read it themselves ...

6
Lots of White
  • Dont want to overwhelm audience
  • Place for focus
  • Keep things short
  • Break up into several slides

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Organized
  • Audience feels movement to a conclusion
  • Easy to see progress
  • Pace of slides (rehearse)
  • Too fast, exhausts them
  • Too slow, put them to sleep

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Path for the Eye
?This versus This (nothing dominant) ?



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Rule of Seven
Thou shall not use more than SEVEN lines Thou
shall not use more than SEVEN words per line
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Color
  • Green
  • Growth and movement
  • Blue
  • Calm
  • Red
  • Power, energy, danger
  • One to three colors is PLENTY
  • Yellow
  • Positive
  • Purple
  • Spiritual
  • Brown
  • Neutral

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And Contrast
  • Dark background
  • Light background
  • Black
  • Red
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Purple
  • Yellow
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Purple

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Colors for Presenting
  • Dark Room dark background
  • Light Room light background
  • 35 mm slides dark background
  • Overheads light background
  • Handouts light background

This one has a dark background to show the
difference
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Colors for Presenting
  • Dark Room dark background
  • Light Room light background
  • 35 mm slides dark background
  • Overheads light background
  • Handouts light background

This one has a light background to show the
difference
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Typography - Font (44 pt)
  • Smallest font 28-30 points (32 pt)
  • Rubric says minimum for this assignment is 36 pt
  • Large for emphasis Titles
  • Simple fonts - Arial, times
  • Avoid script
  • Limit 1 or 2 fonts
  • No more than 3 sizes

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Typography - Style
  • Dont hyphen-ate
  • Errors check, recheck, someone proof
  • Avoid italics least likely to be read

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Typography - UPPER CASE
  • DONT USE ALL CAPITALS FOR LARGE BLOCKS OF TEXT.
    READERS READ FASTEST WHEN SENTENCES ARE PRINTED
    IN UPPER AND LOWER CASE - THE WAY THEY NORMALLY
    ARE SEEN IN PRINT. HEADLINES ARE IN ALL CAPS
    BECAUSE IT REQUIRES THE READER TO SLOW DOWN,
    GIVING EMPHASIS TO A FEW WORDS.

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Typography - Title Case
  • Dont Use All Caps for Large Blocks of Text.
    Readers Read Fastest When Sentences Are Printed
    in Upper and Lower Case - The Way They Normally
    Are Seen in Print. Headlines Are in All Caps
    Because It Requires the Reader to Slow Down,
    Giving Emphasis to a Few Words.

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Typography - Sentence Case
  • Dont use all caps
  • Readers read fastest when
  • Sentences are upper and lower case
  • The way they normally are seen in print
  • Headlines are in all caps
  • It requires the reader to slow down

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Content
  • Only the essence
  • Few words
  • Items in order
  • No extraneous data youll ignore
  • Relate graphics to content

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Design Summary
  • Less is more!
  • Anecdote from Presentations Magazine

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Your Assignment
  • Read the text on page 194 and 195 regarding
    storyboarding
  • Complete a storyboard for your presentation -
    there is a blank one on the shared drive
    (Communication Project)
  • Copy and paste TODAY to student inbox
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