Adding Visuals to Your Presentations

CCR Colloquium19 March 2008

Presentations are audiovisual(like it or not)

How do we prepare?

2%

8%

90%

Intellectual Audio Visual

How do we react?

2%

8%

90%

Yawwwn... Hmm... Wow!!

Visual Designadds

IMPACT

Slides = Slides

Documents = Documents

It’s better to do each well

than to try and do them both at once.

Bullet points don’t bore people. People speaking from bullet

points bore people.

There is no excuse for clip art.

A typical academic slide

• Lots of textually dense bullets and long passages

• Repetitive points (instead of reinforcing)

• Weak graphics, subordinated to text

• Assembled as an afterthought

Be Memorable