Wanda Wagner

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Powerpoint Presentation Design GUIDELINES

• Wanda Wagner
• Director of Educational Technology
• BPS

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Overview

• Outline/Story Board
• Keep It Simple
• Color Font
• Balanced Design
• Rules

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Outline Story Board

• Dont compose as you create - storyboard it
  first
• Make sure the purpose of each slide is clear
• Decide on text first and then illustrate your
  point with visual

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Outline Story Board

• Compose in outline mode
• Create story board
• Text
• Graphic
• Layout
• Add visuals after outline

Story Board
Page
Transitions/Timing
Graphic
Background/Color
Transitions/Timing
Graphic
Background/Color
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K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple, Sweetie

• Remember its a talk, not a paper!
• Establish the purpose clearly
• Summarize main points
• Give details orally (talking points)
• Audience determines tone, words, images

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K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple, Sweetie

• Six bullets per slide maximumsix words per
  bullet
• Dont make audiences read
• Keep points concise
• Keep font size large

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K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple, Sweetie
Visuals should relate to and enhance information

• Presenters who use visuals are 43 more
  effective in persuading audience members to take
  a desired course of action then presenters who
  dont use visuals.
• 3M, University of Minnesota, School of
  Management, 1986

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COLOR

• Red power, excitement
• Blue calm, slows pulse
• Green interaction
• Brown passive
• Yellow happy
• Purple immature
• Isolation effect
• we remember items in contrasting colors

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Dark Type on Light Backgrounds is Hard to Read
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Light Type on Dark Backgrounds is Easier to Read!

• Caution Save on ink!
• Print handouts in black and white
• Option from Print dialog box

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The Truth About Fonts
72 Point They cant miss it!
36 Point Can be used for details
24 Point Very wee hard to see
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Balanced Design TEXT

• Titles can be centered
• Never center bullet points like this
• Makes for ragged look
• Makes text harder to follow

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Balanced Design TEXT

• Titles can be left-aligned
• Always left-align bullet points like this
• Keep things neat and easy to follow

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Balanced Design VISUALS
Use a text box to cite the source of any images.

• Centered visuals leave little room for text

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Balanced Design VISUALS

• Place visuals off-center
• More room for text
• More interesting
• Left placement leads eye to text
• Eye gravitates toward geometric shapes

Use a text box to cite the source of any images.
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Balanced Design GRAPHICS

• Use different backgrounds for different topics
• Use backgrounds to enhance the information on the
  slide

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Balanced Design ANIMATIONS

• Beware of too much of a good thing

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Balanced Design ANIMATIONS

• Major ideas use similar transitions
• Dont rush! Give the audience a chance to absorb
  new info

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Rules CAPITALIZATION

• Avoid ALL CAPITALS
• Follow standard capitalization rules
• Capitalize the first word of each bullet

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Rules PROOF READING

• Spell check
• Grammar check
• Proofread
• Read out loud

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Rules CITING SOURCES

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Who said this? When? Is it from a book or
magazine or speech?
Who is the artist? When was it created? Where
did you find this picture?
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Rules CITING SOURCES

• Add picture captions
• Cite source of images
• Cite all sources using MLA guidelines
• Books, Magazines, Journals
• Web sources
• Encyclopedia (book and electronic)

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Summary

• Outline Story Board
• Keep It Simple Bullets Visuals
• Color Font
• Balanced DesignText, Visuals, Graphics
  Animations
• RulesCapitalization, Proofreading Citations