You Suck At PowerPoint! by @jessedee
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This document provides a summary of common mistakes in PowerPoint presentation design and tips to avoid them. It identifies the top 5 mistakes as including putting too much information on slides, not using enough visuals, using poor quality visuals, having a disorganized "visual vomit" style, and lack of preparation. The document emphasizes telling a story over slide design, using whitespace on slides, consistent formatting, and spending significant time preparing presentations.
You Suck At PowerPoint! by @jessedee
- 1. Y ou Su ck at P er ow ! P oint Mi stakes esign void cking dd to a 5 sho ou nee y
- 2. Approximately 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second around the world... !@#$% &#$*! #$%^& @#$% @#&^$ *$@# !@#&^
- 4. and approximately 99% suck. But it’s not PowerPoint which sucks.
- 5. It’s the speaker (you) who needs to use it properly.
- 6. Your slides are an aid and not a crutch.
- 7. Unfortunately if they suck, so do you.
- 8. Let’s learn good presentation design from other people’s mistakes with...
- 9. 5 SHOCKING DESIGN MISTAKES YOU NEED TO AVOID
- 10. MISTAKE 1 TOO MUCH INFO
- 11. Don’t vomit every piece of information on your slides.
- 12. If you’re going to put word for word what you’re are going to say, hand over the slides and take a seat instead. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
- 13. YOU’RE NOT GIVING A DOCUMENT, YOU’RE GIVING A PRESENTATION. If your audience is reading what you’re saying, then what’s the point of you being there?
- 14. A good trick is to keep one main point per slide. This helps you with timing and prevents your audience from skipping ahead. POINT POINT POINT POINT POINT POINT ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX
- 15. Keep it relevant. Effective communication Less slides is knowing what to cut out, means more so be a merciless editor. time for interaction. POINT POINT POINT ONE X THREE X X SIX
- 16. iiwejfwjoiwijfop pfoqp020r97234 u823492492asdsk weoifweiojwioe Don’t over do it with senseless data. qjepoqiepour93 49i1294238573498 2pqieqjfowiehjp whfpiwjef[weif[w
- 17. Do the hard work for your audience and turn that data into something which is meaningful.
- 18. MISTAKE 2 NOT ENOUGH VISUALS
- 19. Deliver a bigger punch with strong visuals.
- 20. There are endless sources of visuals you can use to bring your presentation to life.
- 21. A good place to start is: iStockPhoto.com: Compfight.com: Royalty free Creative Commons ($$$) (free-ish*) If you’re going to use standard Microsoft clipart there’s no hope for you, sorry. *with conditions
- 22. You don’t have to use cheesy stock photos.
- 23. You don’t have to use cheesy stock photos. Seriously, is it that much fun to work in a call center?
- 24. You don’t have to use cheesy stock photos. Seriously, is it that much fun to work in a call center? Whichever visuals you use just remember to...
- 25. Design for this guy.
- 26. Design for this guy. If it’s unreadable, don’t use it.
- 27. MISTAKE 3 CRAP QUALITY
- 28. Don’t bore your audience with childish visuals. Invest time in learning great design.
- 29. There are two shortcuts to great design
- 30. Buy it: Good design costs money. Invest in professional images and typeface. A little $$$ can give you significant advantage.
- 31. Steal it: You can reverse engineer almost any good design. Take apart your favorite presentations, infographics, websites and figure out how it’s done and remix it into something new. EverythingIsARemix.info is a great place to start to learn how to steal great design
- 32. a quick tip on typeface: DON’T USE $!*#& FONTS!
- 33. Tahoma Microsoft Sans Serif Arial Verdana Courier New Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Lucida Console Comic Sans MS... are $!*#& fonts
- 34. Google ‘beautiful fonts’ and you’ll find plenty of handpicked fonts by some of the best designers.
- 35. Here’s an example of a free font that looks, um, delicious.
- 36. While 95% of your colleagues use PowerPoint, it doesn’t need to be your only option. For 22 years PowerPoint has been the standard for delivering presentation. But not anymore. Experiment with different presentations tools and see which one produces the best results
- 37. MISTAKE 4 visual vomit
- 38. Whitespace is a good thing.
- 40. and keep everything nice and tidy. POINT 1
- 41. Having a consistent use of colors, images & alignment gives a cohesive look to your presentation. It also helps to separate your presentation into recognizable sections.
- 42. Use a collection of visual assets that belong together...
- 43. and always stick to a color scheme. ColorLovers.com is a great source of color schemes
- 44. And the most shocking design mistake...
- 45. MISTAKE 5 LACK OF PREP
- 46. Most presentations suck because not enough time went into making them. Period. You need to craft the perfect story, create beautiful looking slides to support it and then rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. ... and not the night before.
- 47. An outstanding 1 hour presentation can take 30 hours or more of prep time.
- 48. Ya, exactly.
- 49. It’s all about being organized and planning ahead. Have a system for collecting your ideas to rework them into a masterpiece.
- 50. 86% of top executives say that communicating with clarity directly impacts their career and income. Source: www.distinction-services.com
- 51. Yet only 25% Spend more than 2 hours on ‘high-stakes’ presentations Source: www.distinction-services.com
- 52. Design, don’t just slap something together. If your presentation sucks, don’t blame PowerPoint.
- 54. Let’s recap... MISTAKES TO AVOID: TOO NOT MUCH ENOUGH INFO VISUALS HORRIBLE VISUAL LACK QUALITY VOMIT OF PREP
- 55. But wait! A nicely designed presentation is not the most important part.
- 56. Yes the best speakers grip an audience by telling a story and showing some slides to support that, but...
- 57. Yes the best speakers grip an audience by telling a story and showing some slides to support that, but... the boldest among them do away with slides entirely and go naked.
- 58. Before you become a master presentation designer you must be a great storyteller first. One of the best resources to help you with this is Resonate by Nancy Duarte.
- 59. I promise to never design a presentation that sucks ever again. (you sign here)
- 60. Now go on tiger, we need you to not suck.
- 61. Thank Please share this presentation. You. Together let’s rid the world of PowerPoint that sucks. Jesse Desjardins twitter.com/jessedee slideshare.net/jessedee Download this presentation ->