- Came from aerospace engineering - seen A LOT of really bad presentations (and a few good ones)
- The following are my personal suggestions based on what I've seen and how I design presentations
Note: Presentation is structured in a "don't do this, do this" two-slide format
- Looks a lot nicer to create your own design; more eye-catching
- Ensures all your slides don't look the same
- Template doesn't have very nice text sizes or colors
- Bullet points are often unnecessary as long as you use indentation or color to separate out lines or paragraphs
- Catches the reader's eye more
- People misuse bullet points often for items that aren't actually lists
- There's nothing worse than half your audience being unable to read your slides
- Often if you're text is too small, it means there's too much and it's too busy
- If you get a chance before a big presentation, go in ahead of time and put your slides up on the screen and make sure you can read them
- There's almost never a reason to use them and they often look childish
- Detracts from the actual content and distracts your audience
- Looks a lot like presentations from middle school
- Should never read your slides directly
- Slides are meant to enhance what you are saying, and the users can read, so you don't need to dictate them
- If you find yourself reading them, you also probably have too much text
- There are alignment tools in PowerPoint and Keynote...use them!
- Slides look hastily put together if you don't take the time to align items
- Makes a slide look much cleaner
- If you don't know what they are, it's slides that are divided into 2 or 4 parts, where each part is basically it's own slide
- One slide per slide
- Makes text difficult to read, overwhelms a viewer