How to create a good presentation''''' Some rules'

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How to create a good presentation.....?Some
rules.

• Markus Wolkenhauer
• Group seminar AK Butt
• Mai 2004
• Schloss Ringberg

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Content

• 1. Introduction
• Learning and Visualization
• 2. Technical
• Layout for text and graphic
• Fonts and font sizes
• Contrast and Colours
• 3. Summary

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Learning
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Learning
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Visualization
Pictures, Graphs are recognised faster
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Why visualization?

• Focus the attention of the audience
• Emphasize integral parts
• 2 different input channels (visual and audio)
• Informationen easier and faster recognizable
• Reduced effort of speech
• Completion and enhancement of spoken word

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Layout

• Uniform layout
• One presentation one font
• 1/3 of slide area should be blank

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Information density

• One slide every 2-3 minutes
• One topic/message per slide
• One graph or table per slide

• Magical number seven
• Maximum of 7 lines / sentences
• Maximum of 7 words per line

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About text

• Keywords instead of sentences
• Not more than 3 font sizes
• Double linebreak

• Only one method for emphasizing
• ? italic or underline or colour or larger
• ? not combined

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Fonts
? Font without serifes (Arial, Comic)
? Font with serifes (Times New Roman)
? Spaced font (Courier)
? WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS
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Font size

Titles
Subtitles, normal text


Normal text
To small

Rule of thumb distance lt 300 fontsize
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Contrast
Colours are dependant from used output media
Contrast and brightness
Contrast and brightness
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Colours
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Colour effects
Good readable over long distances
Good readable - bad readable
Coloured text seem to be unimportant
Signal
Signal
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Colours and contrast

• Reduced number of colours and contrast
• Use large contrasts
• Dark colours for important parts
• Avoid large white areas
• Use light background instead
• Gradient background gradient contrast

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Graphics
Line thickness

• As simple as possible
• Maximum of 6 different colours
• Yellow is not good visible
• Avoid green and red graphs beside

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Summary

• Visualize
• Limited information density
• One topic / graph / table per slide
• Magical number 7

• 3. Large contrasts good visibility
• Use fonts gt 18 pt

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At last..........
Check presentation with output media !