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Design a Presentation

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• Design 101
• The Presentation Templates and Examples

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Design 101: The Presentation

1. Review all design concepts from Stage 7 (Create a Poster)
2. The KEY to a good presentation is movement.
   • It's all about movement.
   • "Movement is life" --World War Z
   • People will last only about 4 seconds waiting for a website to load, and if it doesn't load by then, they'll move on.
   • Movement has to happen every 5 - 10 seconds in your presentation.
     • A slide changes
     • Text appears/disappears
     • Images appear/disappear
   • This example (cut down from a full presentation) has FIVE times more movement than slides.
     • 11 slides
     • 50 movements.
   • This full example (from a PCA presentation) has (coincidentally) FIVE times movement as slides
   • 25 slides
   • 124 movements
   • That's one movement every ~7 seconds.
3. Control the flow of words on screen
   • No more than 30 words on screen at any time
   • When words appear, discuss those words.
   • People WILL read ahead rather than listen to you talk, so control text flow.
4. All text must be bulleted and fragmented
   • No full sentences
   • You should be able to speak 1-3 sentences per bullet point.
   • However, quoted material must be on screen word-for-word and read outloud word-for-word
5. Have an image on every slide
   • Images keep the audience focused
   • Images keep their eyes off of you
6. If using Graphs and/or Tables
   • Explain Graphs and/or Tables the MOMENT they appear.
   • Don't wait.
7. Sources (at least 1 per minute)
   • You should be quoting or paraphrasing sources at least once per minute

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Template for the Presentation with Examples

• We use a flowing table of contents (TOC) for all presentations.
• The TOC is on every page after the title and informs the viewer of
  • What was discussed
  • What is being discussed
  • And what is next
  
  
  
  
  
• Left Side TOC
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• Enumerated Left Side TOC on title slide
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• Enumerated Left Side TOC in presentation
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• Right Side TOC
• (Layout: Usually TOCs are on the left; she chose right-side because many asian languages are traditionally written top-down right-to-left)
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• Bottom TOC / Title slide
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• Bottom TOC in presentation
• (Creates a conceit of a desktop and uses the "taskbar" as a TOC)
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