Presentation sharing tips for designing TOP presentations that engage your audience. By Rachel Boyd, Auckland, New Zealand http://rachelboyd.com

1. PowerPointed
5 Tips for Designing TOP Presentations
Rachel Boyd

3. Presentations
are a form of
communication

4. Yet since the 1990’s
•we have been delivering boring presentations using
dozens of bullet points

5. Creating (un)engaging content
•This slide is an example of what we have come to
typically expect from a PowerPoint presentation
•There is a lot of text (often small text) crammed on a page
that conveys a lot of information
•Plus, we’ve got bullet points
•Probably lots of them!
•Presenters read line by line what’s on the slide

6. HELP!

7. How can we change this?

8. Who
can we
learn from?

12. “The brain doesn’t pay attention to
boring things, and I am as sick of
boring presentations as you
are.” - Dr John Medina
Brain Rule #4

14. Vision
trumps all
other senses
Brain Rule #10

17. “95% of presentations
SUCK”
- Guy Kawasaki

18. “Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating.
It’s actually
99%”
- Guy Kawasaki

20. Tips?

21. 1. Start analogue

22. Planning your
presentation?

23. Planning your
presentation?
DO NOT start here

26. 2. Tell stories

29. “Forget about PowerPoint
and statistics...

30. to involve people
at a deeper
level, you need to
tell stories”
- Harvard Business Review

31. 3. Simplicity

34. Assume people can read.
Don’t read aloud your text

35. One idea per slide

36. Slides are free!

37. Animate your audience
NOT your slides

38. 4. Bullet Points

39. Vision
beats all other
senses so...

40. Absolutely no
bullet
points!

42. Start with a
blank canvas

43. 5. Go Visual!

44. Powerful images
trigger
emotions

45. Fact:
We have better
recall for visual
information

46. http://www.brainrules.net/vision

47. Use photos
not clipart

48. http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net

49. How
can you improve
your next
PowerPoint?

50. More?
http://www.presentationzen.com/
Search “death by PowerPoint” on You Tube

51. Image References
Image: 'Forward'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16805519@N00/344846593
Image: 'eye'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78315839@N00/1074000287
Image: 'Mouthing off'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21257461@N05/2336528544
Image: 'Maggi sleeping on the way home'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35237095252@N01/2973020567
Image: 'The limits of growth'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60364452@N00/4460258790
Image: 'who am i?'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70387215@N00/3707187124
Image: 'Free Eye and Snowflaked Lashes Creative Commons'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/313994091
Image: 'Apple Aluminum MacBook (Late 2008)'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83542829@N00/2971294143
mage: 'Have a Very Bokeh Christmas'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92694860@N00/4209735621
Image: ':: Learn how to . . . ::'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66548401@N00/3368336791
Image: 'Happy Pasta'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40645538@N00/2201247567