Guidelines for Making PowerPoint Slides

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Guidelines for Making PowerPoint Slides
Clutter is a failure of design. -Nancy Duarte,
slideology
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Confession

• This presentation stole shamelessly from the book
  
• slideology
• the art and science of creating great
  presentations
• by Nancy Duarte
• I highly recommend reading it.

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Design Elements
Arrangement
Movement
Visual Elements
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Arrangement
Contrast
Space
Flow
Proximity
Hierarchy
Unity
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Arrangement
Contrast
Space
Flow
Proximity
Hierarchy
Unity
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Contrast Focuses Attention
United States Russia China United
Kingdom France Israel India Pakistan North Korea
Size
Shape
Shade
Color
Proximity
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Flow How Information is Processed
Text
Perspective
Photo
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Hierarchy Links between Elements

• Parent
• Child
• Strengthen the NPT
• Protects countries right to make fuel
• Strengthen IAEA
• Spreads nuclear technology
• Is incapable of warning of military diversions

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Unity The Grid System








3 Column
4 Column
5 Column








text
image
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Visual Elements
Aa
Background Color Text Images
BbCc
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Background A Container for Content
Dont allow it to compete with your content
Nonproliferation Regimes at Risk
Keep it simple and clean
Move away from default templates
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Color Look for Contrast
Dark Background
Light Background
Formal Larger venues
Informal Smaller venues
Fit the organization and target audience Fit
the topic of the presentation Be complementary
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Text Glance Media

• Simple text
• Low word count
• Crisp thoughts
• Big Ideas
• Clear mnemonic

3 seconds
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Text Messages in Fonts
Font Personality
Georgia Formal, practical
Times New Roman Professional, traditional
Courier Plain, nerdy
Serif
S
Sans Serif
Arial Stable, conformist
Tahoma Young, plain
Century Gothic Happy, elegant
S
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Bullets Kill Audiences, Too

• Use them sparingly
• Write them as headlines
• Use parallel structure
• Avoid sub-bullets

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Images 1,000 Words
Photos to tell a story, show cause effect,
engage audience emotionally Shapes to symbolize
relationships and interactions Icons to depict
statistical information
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Highlight Whats Important
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Movement Function over Form

• Use Animation for
• Change in relationship
• Direction
• Change in object
• Sequence
• Emphasis
• Adding value to content

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Three Rs

• Reduce your text
• Record your script
• Repeat your story

Clean it up!
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Parallel Structure How to Correct?
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The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

• Thirteen years after its official opening for
  signature, the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
  (Treaty of Pelindaba) has entered into force.
• In the aftermath of French testing in Algeria,
  the United Nations General Assembly adopted in
  1961 a resolution calling for a zone free of
  nuclear weapons in Africa.
• The Pelindaba Treaty covers the entire African
  continent, as well as the surrounding islands,
  and establishes a legally binding obligation to
  not only refrain from developing, producing, or
  otherwise acquiring nuclear weapons, but also to
  not test, allow, assist, or encourage testing,
  dump radioactive waste, or station nuclear
  weapons on the territory of any of the member
  states of the treaty.

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NP Topics for Slide Design

• Proliferation dynamic supply demand
• Proliferation dynamic vertical horizontal
• Nuclear fuel cycle and diversion to NW
• Nuclear trafficking networks
• Global pandemics
• Disease surveillance
• CBW Routes of entry