Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Rules of visual design

Design Tips for PowerPoint
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1st –– Backgrounds – Templates
Best fonts
Bullets –– 6 is max
Content is king!
Words on a slide –– 25 or less
Images –– key
Content and layout provided by Professor Keri Stephens
A picture is
worth a
thousand words
PowerPoint more
visual
than written
PowerPoint rules
Templates &
color schemes
Pick a good template
Match the mood
• Look professional
• Don’t get the blues
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medium blues
• navy blue OK
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Bluesy templates – yikes!
Azure
Lock & key
Blue
diagonal
Soaring
Use high contrast colors
GOOD
GOOD
Bright
on
dark
EVIL
GOOD
Dark
on
bright
EVIL
EVIL
Why high-contrast?
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Your PC screen is hi-res
everything looks great
don’t trust it!
big displays “wash out” colors
always TEST on final equipment
alter template’s defaults as needed
See for yourself
Which line is easier to read?
• Which line is easier to read?
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Which line is easier to read?
Which line is easier to read?
Be font savvy
Sans serif good
Arial
• Arial Black
• Futura
• Tahoma
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Serif bad
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Times New
Roman
• New York
• Courier
Which is easier to read?
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear
Less
named Pooh. He had a cat named
Stronger
Tigger and
visual
a law degree from Texas Tech. He
was
lines
complexity
allergic
to chocolate.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow bear
named Pooh. He had a cat named Tigger and
a law degree from Texas Tech. He was
allergic to chocolate.
Don’t waste bullets
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use
no
more
than
6
in a list
Observe the limit
words per slide
max
More
looks
busy
Avoid death by cheese…
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Weird sound effects
Most transitions
Flying text
Strange animations
Bad clip-art
Clip-art Hall of Shame
Content is King!
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Single phrases
Short lists
Quotes
Photographs
Video