craft your story visually
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Principles of Presentation Zen; lecture for MCDM COM546.TRANSCRIPT
Lessons From Presentation Zen
19 April 201119 April 2011
Craft Your StoryVisually
First: Step Away From The Computer.
photo by Nantaskart!- 2005
Second: Who Is Your Audience?
photo by Carbon NYC - 2008
Third: What Role Are You Playing?
What is
your story?
Ideas.Concepts.Not Slides.
Architecture:Story Board
TextTextDesign
2Good GraphDesign
3
Text Text
StoryboardImages
DesignPrinciple
1
Cluttered Image
Bad Graph
Text
Story Frames
Title &Intro
Design
4
Design Tips:Four
Visual Principles
1. Simplify
Avoid animation & sound
2. Signal-to-Noise
3. “White” Space
4. Rule of Thirds
Before &
After
Top Global Web Properties
Web Properties Visitors
Microsoft 508,000
Google 494,000
Yahoo 476,000
Wikipedia 164,000
New York Times
68,000
Top Global Web Properties
2009 Flood
• Initial estimated damage at $125 million
•Three deaths
•27 commercial shellfish areas closed
•8,000 residents in seven water systems told by officials to boil their water
2009 Flood
• Estimate $125 million
• Three deaths
• 27 shellfish areas closed
• 8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water
2009 Flood
• Estimate $125 million
• Three deaths
• 27 shellfish areas closed
• 8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water
In A Word:
Simplify
Resources
•PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog)
•PresentationZen (book, Amazon)
•The Rule of Thirds
•Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)
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Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto:How to Succeed In Business, TomatoesGates via Flickr; World’s Worst via Flickr
Some materials developed by Meg McGough in 2009
Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/@kegill
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