Effective Presentations: design fundamentals

This is the third and final talk I gave in front of Ocado Technology on the topic of delivering effective presentations.

This one is about design, particularly slide design.
How often do you encounter slides which are cluttered with bullet points and images that bring no value? I'd guess more than it has to.

Well, in this presentation, I am giving you the basic principles and tools behind great slide design that will make your slides among the top 10% (or even more) in the WORLD. This is not exaggerated. It's just that presentations we see nowadays, honestly, suck!

So, it's time to cure the planet from bad slides.

Transcript

1. Effective Presentations: design fundamentals P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018
2. AGENDA ________________ Q&A Act 1: purpose Act 2: clarity Act 3: impact
3. Act 1: purpose
4. design?
5. , not . Icons on slide made by Daniel Bruce and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
6. clarity + impact Icons on slide made by Daniel Bruce and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
7. clarity
8. Direct compile vs. Virtual Machine • A virtual machine is an emulation of a computer system • With a virtual machine, the code is compiled to an intermediary language • Upon execution, the VM code is being compiled runtime to the specific platform • This makes the code you write cross-platform • (continues on next page)
9. Direct Compile vs. Virtual Machine Program Virtual Machine Computer A Computer B Computer C Computer D
10. impact
11. There are 70 million homeless dogs in the US • Of this 70 million, only about six to eight million enter the nation’s shelters • Around 10 percent of animals entering shelters have been sprayed or neutered • Only about half of the ones entering shelters are being adopted each year • The other half are being euthanized because there is a lack of space and adopters
12. Every second animal in US shelters is killed each year
13. design matters.
14. vs Icons on slide made by Smashicons and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
15. read Icons on slide made by Smashicons and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
16. present Icons on slide made by Smashicons and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
17. support, not replace.
18. Act 2: clarity
19. simplicity
20. OS SHELL USER
21. simplicity simple ≠
22. non-essential Icons on slide made by Sergiu Bagrin from www.flaticon.com
24. empty space
25. Linux Distributions • Linux – The name of the kernel. • Linux Distribution – The set of tools using the Linux kernel to form a complete OS. • The most famous distributions – Slackware, Debian, Red Hat. Image of every Linux distribution (2009) http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/09.03/gldt93.png
26. no more than a sec
27. bad slides
28. time you them
29. good slides
30. time you them
31. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “ ”
32. colors
33. contrast to emphasize
34. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
35. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
36. color harmonies
37. Monochromatic
38. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
39. Analogous
40. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
41. Complementary
42. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
43. Achromatic +1
44. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun First half revenue
45. color.adobe.com LIVE DEMO
46. derive from . Icons on slide made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com
47. Effective Presentations: why care & how to start P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018
48. canva.com LIVE DEMO
49. Act 3: impact
50. create impact Icons on slide made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com
51. 1000 words = Icons on slide made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com
53. common mistakes
54. full-screen, please
56. one image, please
58. high-res, please
60. no clichés, please
62. empty space, please
63. If you want to win, you have to play
64. legal, please
66. Icons on slide made by SimpleIcon from www.flaticon.com
67. attribute if needed
68. create impact Icons on slide made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com
69. where does he look
70. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power “ ” Lao Tzu
71. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power “ ” Lao Tzu
72. resources
73. pexels.com pixabay.com freepik.com
74. fonts 101
75. sans-serif
76. serif
77. to start with
78. Montserrat
79. Effective Presentations: delivery P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018
80. Helvetica
81. from gamer to developer P. Mihaylov, American College Sofia 2017
82. Rockwell
83. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it Peter Drucker “ ”
84. Montserrat formal Helvetica Rockwell informal neutral
85. matters SIZE
86. finally…
87. learn by . Icons on slide made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
89. Simon Sinek Ken Robinson Bryan Stevenson
90. Steve Jobs
91. MacWorld 2007 MacWorld 2008 Stanford Speech
92. Conferences
93. learn by . Icons on slide made by Zlatko Najdenovski from www.flaticon.com
97. 356labs.com
98. takeaways
99. , not . Icons on slide made by Daniel Bruce and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
100. ≠ Icons on slide made by Smashicons and Freepik from www.flaticon.com
101. non-essential Icons on slide made by Sergiu Bagrin from www.flaticon.com
102. Thanks for being awesome /preslavmihaylov blogging at pmihaylov.com preslav@pmihaylov.com