1. Lessons From Presentation Zen
How to rock your
presentations!
Kathy E. Gill

2. Not Rocking!

3. Ditch this
(death by Powerpoint)

4. First: Step
Away From
The Computer.
photo by Nantaskart!- 2005

5. Second: Know your audience
photo by Carbon NYC - 2008

6. Third: Understand your role

7. What is
your
story?

8. Ideas.
Concepts.
Not Slides.

10. Architecture:
Story Board
Storyboard Design
Title & Story Cluttered
Images Principle Bad Graph
Intro Frames Image
1
Design Design
Good Graph
2 Text Text 3 Text
Design
Text 4 Text

11. Not This Structure!

12. Compelling
Imagery.

14. Three
Visual
Principles

15. 1. Simplify

17. Bullets
can kill

18. Minimize
lines and
words

20. Ensure
sufficient
contrast

21. Avoid
animation &
sound

22. 2. Signal-to-Noise

27. 3. Rule of Thirds

29. Salsa
Trumps

31. Before
&
After

32. From
Garr
Reynolds

34. From
Garr
Reynolds

36. From
Garr
Reynolds

38. Step Away From
The Computer.
photo by allietheoptimist- 2010

39. Know your audience
photo by Kevin Dooley- 2010

40. Understand your role
photo by sheiladeeisme - 2012

41. Then Simplify

42. Resources
• PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog)
• PresentationZen (book, Amazon)
• The Rule of Thirds
• Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)

46. Credits
Share&Share Alike; Attribution; Non-Commercial
Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto:
How to Succeed In Business, Tomatoes
Some materials developed by Meg McGough in 2009
Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/
@kegill