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Effective Presentations: design fundamentals

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.

Preslav Mihaylov

June 04, 2018
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  1. Effective Presentations:
    design fundamentals
    P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018

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  2. AGENDA
    ________________
    Q&A
    Act 1:
    purpose
    Act 2:
    clarity
    Act 3:
    impact

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  3. Act 1:
    purpose

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  4. design?

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  5. , not .
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  6. clarity + impact
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  7. clarity

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  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
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  9. Direct Compile vs. Virtual Machine
    Program
    Virtual Machine
    Computer A Computer B Computer C Computer D

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  10. impact

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  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

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  12. Every second animal
    in US shelters is
    killed each year

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  13. design matters.

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  14. vs
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  15. read
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  16. present
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  17. support,
    not replace.

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  18. Act 2:
    clarity

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  19. simplicity

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  20. OS SHELL USER

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  21. simplicity simple

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  22. non-essential
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  24. empty space

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  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

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  26. no more than a sec

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  27. bad slides

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  28. time
    you them

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  29. good slides

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  30. time
    you them

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  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


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  32. colors

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  33. contrast
    to emphasize

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  34. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  35. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  36. color harmonies

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  37. Monochromatic

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  38. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  39. Analogous

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  40. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  41. Complementary

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  42. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  43. Achromatic +1

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  44. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
    First half revenue

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  45. color.adobe.com
    LIVE DEMO

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  46. derive from .
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  47. Effective Presentations:
    why care & how to start
    P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018

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  48. canva.com
    LIVE DEMO

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  49. Act 3:
    impact

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  50. create impact
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  51. 1000 words
    =
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  53. common mistakes

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  54. full-screen, please

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  56. one image, please

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  58. high-res, please

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  60. no clichés, please

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  62. empty space, please

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  63. If you want to win,
    you have to play

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  64. legal, please

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  66. Icons on slide made by SimpleIcon from www.flaticon.com

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  67. attribute if needed

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  68. create impact
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  69. where does he look

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  70. Mastering others
    is strength,
    mastering yourself
    is true power


    Lao Tzu

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  71. Mastering others
    is strength,
    mastering yourself
    is true power


    Lao Tzu

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  72. resources

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  73. pexels.com
    pixabay.com
    freepik.com

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  74. fonts 101

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  75. sans-serif

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  76. serif

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  77. to start with

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  78. Montserrat

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  79. Effective Presentations:
    delivery
    P. Mihaylov, Ocado Technology 2018

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  80. Helvetica

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  81. from gamer to developer
    P. Mihaylov, American College Sofia 2017

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  82. Rockwell

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  83. If you can’t
    measure it, you
    can’t improve it
    Peter Drucker


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  84. Montserrat
    formal
    Helvetica Rockwell
    informal
    neutral

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  85. matters
    SIZE

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  86. finally…

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  87. learn by .
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  89. Simon Sinek
    Ken Robinson
    Bryan Stevenson

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  90. Steve Jobs

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  91. MacWorld 2007
    MacWorld 2008
    Stanford Speech

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  92. Conferences

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  93. learn by .
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  97. 356labs.com

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  98. takeaways

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  99. , not .
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  100. Icons on slide made by Smashicons and Freepik from www.flaticon.com

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  101. non-essential
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  102. Thanks
    for being awesome
    /preslavmihaylov
    blogging at pmihaylov.com
    [email protected]

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