It is important to limit the content on support visuals, as mentioned in the PowerPoint Slim-Slide Diet. But slide seduction is just as important as slide reduction. Just like with any other form of enticement, effective wording will change the perspective of your audience. Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Design of the visual support
The PowerPoint Slim-Slide Diet
Imagine that the slides in your presentation gain weight as you add more text or clutter. So, you just keep feeding these images your high-calorie content and, before you know it, your presentation has become a bloated blob of blubbering babble! Sound familiar? Well, SLIDE-REDUCTION is possible! There is a way to slim your slides into speaking-shape! Continue reading
Distractions and Distortions
Clip art images, if filled with many details, can actually become a distraction when the visual stays in view too long. Continue reading
The Note Giveth and the Note Taketh
There are two ways to offer an audience an opportunity to have “notes” on your presentation. You can create note-GIVING handouts that already contain key information; or, you can design handouts that leave some area or space for note-TAKING by the audience. Continue reading
What’s in a Handout?
If you decide to give handouts, the content becomes an important issue. The handouts should always be “different” from the presentation.
Don’t fall into the trap of printing out a hard copy of your visuals for the audience to take away with them. This presents a problem, especially when the presentation is designed conceptually. Continue reading
Seek Simplicity in Templates
The templates you find in most graphic software programs offer a variety of graphic elements, geometric shapes, and other interesting components to carry a design theme throughout the presentation.
When you work with templates, check to see if the design is generic or specific. Continue reading
Media Design
This category features comments related to the visual design elements used to support the presentation.