How to Make Awesome Slides
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The document provides 10 tips for creating awesome presentation slides: (1) A slide should convey one main idea rather than act as a document. (2) Avoid stock templates and make your own slides to show effort. (3) Choose a color scheme and 3-5 colors that match your theme. (4) Select 3 fonts that match your theme and avoid common stock fonts. (5) Use images to convey messages as people remember images better than words. (6) Include icons to represent complex ideas simply. (7) Leave white space to help focus the audience. (8) Visualize statistics rather than just presenting numbers. (9) Include signposts to help navigate slides. (10) Keep animations to a
How to Make Awesome Slides
- 2. Hey!
- 3. Wanna learn how to make Yeah, ya do! AWESOME SLIDES?
- 4. well, I’m gonna give you 10 TIPSto show you how
- 5. 1 A SLIDE IS NOT A DOCUMENT
- 6. • I am very knowledgeable and I have a lot of things to say. • Because I am so clever I put lots of information on my slides. • Putting lots of information on my slides also shows people that I am talking about serious things. • I don’t have a lot of time for graphics because they distract people from the important and clever things I’m saying. • I think it’s important to put as much information as possible on the slides to make sure that people understand everything. • Another good thing about having lots of information on your slides is that you can just read out loud so you don’t have to worry about remembering what you want to say. • Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, blah. INTRODUCTION
- 7. • I am very knowledgeable and I have a lot of things to say. • Because I am so clever I put lots of information on my slides. • Putting lots of information on my slides also shows people that I am talking about serious things. • I don’t have a lot of time for graphics because they distract people from the important and clever things I’m saying. • I think it’s important to put as much information as possible on the slides to make sure that people understand everything. • Another good thing about having lots of information on your slides is that you can just read out loud so you don’t have to worry about remembering what you want to say. • Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, blah. INTRODUCTION this is not a slide
- 8. • I am very knowledgeable and I have a lot of things to say. • Because I am so clever I put lots of information on my slides. • Putting lots of information on my slides also shows people that I am talking about serious things. • I don’t have a lot of time for graphics because they distract people from the important and clever things I’m saying. • I think it’s important to put as much information as possible on the slides to make sure that people understand everything. • Another good thing about having lots of information on your slides is that you can just read out loud so you don’t have to worry about remembering what you want to say. • Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, blah. INTRODUCTION it’s a document
- 11. Your audience should be WATCHING
- 12. not READING
- 14. like BILLBOARDS
- 15. people should get the message in 3 SECONDS
- 16. Stick to per slide ONE IDEA
- 22. they’re BORING
- 23. and UGLY
- 24. they look like you made NO EFFORT
- 25. MAKE YOUR OWN so
- 26. How??
- 27. 3 CHOOSE THE RIGHT COLOR SCHEME
- 28. choose colors that MATCH YOUR THEME
- 31. Choose about 4-5 COLORS Warm and comforting Sober and corporate redecorating the kitchen
- 32. From here ADOBE KULER Free Resource
- 33. 4 CHOOSE THE RIGHT TYPE OF FONT
- 34. like colors, your type should MATCH YOUR THEME
- 35. the wild west
- 36. SPORTS
- 38. select about 3 FONTSand stick with them
- 41. Times New Roman DON’T USE THESE Arial Calibri Papyrus Mistral
- 42. BEBAS NEU TRY THESE Chunk Five Open Sans Archisto Streetwear
- 44. play with type to create DIFFERENT EFFECTS
- 45. PLAY WITH TYPE D I F F E R E N T E F F E C T S to create
- 46. PLAY WITH TYPE Different Effects TO CREATE
- 47. WHATEVER YOU DO…
- 48. never use Comic Sans
- 49. unless you’re a 9 year-old girl giving a presentation about unicorns
- 50. From here FONT SQUIRREL Free Resource
- 51. 5 A PICTURE THOUSAND WORDS IS WORTH A
- 52. people remember IMAGESmore than words
- 53. of sensory receptors are in your eyes70 PERCENT f e 50 PERCENT of your brain is involved in visual processing
- 54. e b b AFTER 72 HOURS 10% e e35% 65% m m
- 55. choose to convey your message STRONG IMAGES
- 59. 6 BE ICONIC
- 60. icons help you represent COMPLEX IDEAS
- 62. HEAVY INDUSTRY n
- 63. PENGUINS !
- 64. build yourself an ICON LIBRARAY ABCDGHIJLMNOPQRSTU VXabdefghjlmqrstuy tuvwy1 ! " # $ % g
- 65. From here Free Resource THE NOUN PROJECT
- 67. is any area where there is WHITE SPACE NO TEXT OR GRAPHICS
- 68. it helps your audience FOCUSon your message
- 69. it doesn’t actually have to be white. See??
- 72. WHY DO THIS…
- 73. WHEN YOU CAN DO THIS?
- 75. SIGN POSTS use
- 76. help the audience navigate your slides REPEATED PATTERNS
- 78. MAGIC SHOW it’s not a
- 80. so keep them to a MINIMUM
- 81. no more than about .5 SECONDSm per animation
- 82. SUMMARY
- 83. Thanks