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PowerPoint slide design

New evidence that bullet-points don’t work

October 7, 2009

At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work.
The research is the work of Chris Atherton, a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. There’s been a tremendous amount of interest in them, [...]

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Here’s a quick way to make over a bullet-point slide

August 13, 2009

It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it).
BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning Guide, you’ll see that this slide format dovetails nicely with the planning system I describe in the Guide.
First let’s look at [...]

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How to create a “new” presentation from pre-existing slides

June 13, 2009

In a perfect world, every new presentation would be prepared from scratch, tailored exactly to the specific audience. But in reality, you sometimes have to cobble together a “new presentation” from pre-existing material.
How can you create an effective presentation in the shortest possible time using pre-existing slides from different sources?
There are two phases to this. [...]

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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Most promising new technology

January 24, 2009

This is the fourth post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009? The first three posts are:
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Does Design Matter?
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Six most recommended tips
Here are the links to all the contributions to the PowerPoint Design [...]

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How to make an effective PowerPoint presentation

January 20, 2009

Hi there, if you’ve reached this page by searching on Google for “How to make an effective PowerPoint presentation” you’ll also be interested in my Guide How to make an Effective PowerPoint Presentation.
I asked a number of experts for their tips on how to make an effective PowerPoint presentation. Follow these tips and you’ll be [...]

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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills

January 16, 2009

This is the second post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009″. In the first post I explored the issue “Does Design Matter?”.
And here are the links to the PowerPoint Design in 2009 resources:

A list of all the blogposts with a one or two sentence summary of each [...]

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PowerPoint Slide Design: Does Design Matter?

January 13, 2009

I asked a number of number of experts on powerpoint slide design for their thoughts on whether design matters. There were definite opposing view points.
PowerPoint slide design doesn’t matter
Andrew Lightheart:
In terms of impact, slides have as much impact as the the fonts and the layout of a document.
Dave Paradi believes that the vast majority of [...]

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3 reasons to use less stock photos in your presentations

January 9, 2009

Here’s what I would like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009 – less stock photos of people.
I’m guilty too. Last year I loved istockphoto. It saved me so much time. I loved recommending it to our course participants and showing them how quickly they could find the photo they wanted.
My New Year’s [...]

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The Top 7 PowerPoint slide designs

January 6, 2009

The PowerPoint revolution has sparked the evolution of different styles of PowerPoint design. I’ve identified seven different styles to inspire you – do add others in the comments.
If you’re just getting started with creating non-bullet point slides, I recommend the assertion-evidence or PresentationZen style. Then start mixing and matching between styles to provide variety for [...]

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15 ways to improve your presentations in 2009

December 31, 2008

This is a big meaty post with 15 ways to improve your presentations. These ideas are designed to challenge you to stretch yourself. With each idea I’ve pointed you to further resources from fellow presentation bloggers or from my own archives.
Choose one or two to work on at a time. Bookmark this post, so that [...]