10 Rules for Designing Visually Engaging Slides
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This document outlines 10 rules for designing visually engaging slides: 1) Understand your audience; 2) Choose legible typefaces such as sans serif for easy reading and serif for blocks of text; 3) Use contrast to make information obvious; 4) Use high-quality images from stock sites; 5) Keep blocks of copy short for easy digestion; 6) Define a color scheme; 7) Use simple animations and transitions; 8) Organize information visually; 9) Do not read slides verbatim; and 10) Showcase your personality.
10 Rules for Designing Visually Engaging Slides
- 1. 10 RULES for Designing Visually Engaging Slides Andi Galpern, Product Designer @andigalpern I throw events for @cascadesf
- 2. Designing the web together @cascadesf cascadesf.com
- 3. Food for thought: Good design builds trust.
- 5. Rule #1: Understand Your Audience Who are these people?
- 7. Sans Serif easy to read serif. used for large blocks of copy
- 8. Rule #2: Choose a legible typeface. Serifs were created to make it easier to read large paragraphs of information. This sentence would be more difficult to read, had it been designed with a sans-serif typeface. Illustration Source: http://www.thepixelboutique.com/
- 9. Rule #2: Choose legible typefaces. Antique Olive Baskerville Futura Garamond Helvetica Neue Proxima Nova Sabon
- 10. Rule #3 Contrast is your new best friend.
- 11. Make it obvious with contrast. (not really obvious… but ok.)
- 12. Make it obvious with contrast.
- 17. Rule #4: Use high-quality images You never know what you are going to get on stock photo sites.
- 18. Rule #4: Use high-quality images
- 19. Rule #4: Use high-quality images Free Stock Photography Stock Xchng http://www.sxc.hu Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/ creativecommons/
- 20. Rule #4: Use high-quality images http://www.haikudeck.com
- 21. Rule #5 Use short blocks of copy.
- 22. Rule #5: Use short blocks of copy Nobody wants to read a giant runon-sentence filled with endless copy where we often wonder, what is the point of this slide and we have to dissect the message because it’s not obvious. blah blah blah.
- 23. Rule #5: Use short blocks of copy Make information easy to digest. • Keep it short and simple. • Use columns. • Get to the point.
- 24. Rule #6 Define Your Color Scheme.
- 25. Rule #6: Define your color scheme
- 26. Rule #6: Define your color scheme
- 27. Rule #6: Define your color scheme colourlovers.com
- 28. Rule #7 Use simple animations and transitions.
- 29. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions
- 30. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions Let’s make everybody dizzy!
- 31. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions
- 32. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions Weeeeeee!!!!!
- 33. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions
- 34. Rule #6: Use simple animations and transitions WHOAAA!!!!
- 36. Rule #8: Organize information visually
- 37. Rule #8: Organize information visually
- 38. Rule #9 Do not read your slides.
- 40. Andi Galpern, Product Designer, @andigalpern I throw events for @cascadesf