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TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
COMMON MISTAKES
IN PRESENTATION
SLIDES DESIGN
Made by Matukhin D.L.
Associate Prof.
EEI TPU
Slide Design
• Goals:
– Convey the necessary information
– Be readable/understandable
– Be interesting (enough)
• Avoid:
– Over stimulation
– Booooring
Logos
• We know you had support
• Don’t need to list all of them every slide
• If on first slide, don’t obscure
title/authors
• Maybe save it for last slide
Outline
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Title Slide
Introduction
Outline
Results
Conclusions
Outline Slides
• Previous slide didn’t “help” audience
• If use outline slide, make it USEFUL
– Everyone (hopefully) introduces their
topic
– Everyone explains their work, gives
results
– What is specific to YOUR talk?
• Talk length correlates to outline need
– Talk is 45 minutes, maybe!
– Talk is 5 minutes… probably not.
README.TXT
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Do not attempt to put all the text, code, or explanation of what you are talking about
directly onto the slide, especially if it consists of full, long sentences. Or paragraphs.
There’s no place for paragraphs on slides. If you have complete sentences, you can
probably take something out.
If you do that, you will have too much stuff to read on the slide, which isn’t always a
good thing.
Like the previous slide, people do not really read all the stuff on the slides.
– That’s why it’s called a “presentation” and not “a reading” of your work
Practice makes perfect, which is what gets you away from having to have all of you
“notes” in textual form on the screen in front of you.
Utilize the Notes function of PowerPoint, have them printed out for your reference.
– The audience doesn’t need to hear the exact same thing that you are reading to
them.
– The bullet points are simply talking points and should attempt to summarize the
big ideas that you are trying to convey
If you’ve reached anything less than 18 point font, for God’s sake, please:
– Remove some of the text
– Split up the text and put it on separate slides
– Perhaps you are trying to do much in this one slide?
Reading a slide is annoying.
You should not simply be a text-to-speech converter.
Font Size
• You are close to your monitor
• Your audience is far from the screen
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Squint City
• If you find yourself saying “you probably
can’t read/see this, but…”
– Then you probably have a BAD SLIDE!
– There are exceptions, but very few
• Test on real screen in conference room
– Not just your computer screen 15” away.
This is a really long title
for this single slide, I
should have just
summarized
• Hard to read
• Many people don’t read the title anyway
• Should have been “Long Slide Titles”
Know Slide Boundaries
• People can’t read text that runs off the side
slide
Bullets Aren’t Everything
• How many
– Levels of
• Hierarchy do
– You think
» You need
* To express
- Your point?
Speelchick
• How samrt will poeple thikn yuo
are?
• Watch for:
– there/their/they’re
– too/to/two
– its/it’s
Picture This
• There are exceptions, but in general
– Don’t have only text on most of your slides
– Try to draw diagrams wherever applicable
• (Well-drawn) pictures easier to understand
System Architecture
32
FPGA
32
main
memory
CPU
data cache
There’s a CPU, a RAM and an
FPGA and they’re all connected
- The FPGA connects to the
CPU’s data cache
- The bus is 32 bits wide
- Blah blah blah blah
You have to visualize it
yourself
System Architecture
Example Diagrams
• Previous slide(s) used “animation”…
Animation
Can
Be Very
Use it sparingly
(it can be annoying)
Distracting
• Use only where it is USEFUL
• Know if presentation system will handle
– Different versions of PowerPoint, Macs, etc.
• Or use multiple slides to safely animate
– Flip-book style
Line ‘Em Up
• This is a bad drawing
• Put in some effort
FPGA
CPU
I See A Ghost
• More contrast on monitor than projector
• Different projectors == different results
• Colors to avoid with white are:
– Light Green
– Light Blue
– Pale Yellow
Usually can’t read this…
• Your slides should have good contrast
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Side note: if printing slides, may want to choose white background to save
ink!
Equations
• Ummm… okay…
Use Simple Examples
• This isn’t one. It doesn’t help.
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Results
• You have
lots of cool
results
– No one can
read this
– No one can
understand this
• Graphs are
your friend…
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0 .2 4 9 1 0 3 5 5 0 .7 9 7 0 8 6 5 4 0 .3 9 8 2 5 6 6 1 0 .4 8 9 4 8 7 6 0 .2 2 0 7 9 4 5 6
0 .6 5 7 2 9 2 6 1 0 .4 6 9 0 1 0 6 3 0 .3 6 4 7 1 1 9 1 0 .0 4 6 9 7 2 3 3 0 .6 3 4 6 8 0 5 9
0 .4 8 2 0 5 3 9 6 0 .5 2 6 5 7 5 0 6 0 .7 0 5 0 3 4 2 6 0 .3 5 2 8 0 1 7 6 0 .4 0 9 3 5 3 1 3
0 .4 6 3 2 8 1 3 7 0 .0 7 7 4 3 6 5 0 .7 1 5 1 7 4 4 4 0 .9 3 9 4 6 6 2 0 .4 6 8 4 3 6 3 8
0 .0 9 7 6 2 7 1 7 0 .7 0 8 8 4 8 6 7 0 .8 1 4 0 7 5 3 9 0 .2 4 5 7 1 7 1 1 0 .7 2 4 9 7 8 1 9
0 .0 0 7 7 3 3 1 5 0 .3 9 9 0 6 4 4 7 0 .4 2 3 4 4 9 3 9 0 .9 0 7 7 6 9 7 6 0 .2 2 2 0 9 0 0 6
0 .1 5 8 5 7 6 6 3 0 .4 1 8 1 1 9 7 0 .5 6 4 8 8 1 6 5 0 .9 1 4 0 5 8 4 1 0 .3 5 7 8 3 4 9
0 .5 9 2 4 2 4 5 5 0 .1 7 8 9 4 3 8 9 0 .6 1 9 2 6 6 7 2 0 .0 2 9 7 8 3 4 6 0 .5 0 7 8 9 1 7 2
0 .4 1 2 8 5 7 5 7 0 .7 1 4 7 0 3 9 8 0 .3 1 9 0 6 9 8 8 0 .7 9 6 5 8 4 2 6 0 .2 1 5 8 7 6 4 7
0 .8 8 5 5 5 8 6 0 .4 6 5 3 4 5 5 6 0 .3 7 0 1 1 6 4 0 .1 2 4 5 2 5 3 8 0 .3 3 4 1 5 4 9 7
0 .2 8 2 3 1 4 6 7 0 .1 7 5 0 9 8 9 4 0 .8 5 8 0 1 0 2 4 0 .7 2 9 8 4 6 3 5 0 .9 4 7 3 1 2 3 8
0 .8 2 3 7 0 9 5 1 0 .0 3 2 3 5 3 6 2 0 .9 5 6 2 2 2 9 9 0 .2 7 7 2 6 2 9 7 0 .7 6 6 1 9 8 7 9
0 .8 6 2 4 5 5 7 8 0 .2 1 0 9 4 8 1 1 0 .9 3 2 7 2 2 8 7 0 .4 8 2 6 5 5 0 5 0 .0 4 9 6 0 6 4 6
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0 .3 5 9 2 8 2 1 2 0 .1 4 8 7 8 6 3 4 0 .4 4 2 0 1 4 1 7 0 .2 3 2 5 1 6 1 2 0 .8 3 3 7 5 1 5 4
0 .7 2 0 9 9 8 0 6 0 .7 5 2 1 2 2 9 3 0 .8 1 0 6 1 2 5 9 0 .2 3 7 5 6 2 8 4 0 .4 8 5 1 8 9 9 6
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Graphs Can Also Be The Enemy
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Conclusion
• If your talk is more than 5 minutes,
nice to summarize work & results
– Bring people back if they zoned out
– Remind them why you’re great
• Give “selling” points here
– 30x performance increase with only 10%
area penalty
– Described novel method to create clean
fuel from used cat litter
Bad Presentations
• Audience won’t see your work is great
• But will make fun of you from back row
What does that
slide say?
Dunno, I’m playing
minesweeper
Those are some
NASTY colors…
Please let it
be OVER…
Hey – it
matches my tie.
zzz
Good Presentations
• Interesting topic, explained at audience’s level
• Slides are understandable and easy to see
• Good presentations reflect well on speaker!
I understood
this one!
You should
with a PhD…
Let’s talk to them
But it’s outside
at the break
Interesting
my main area
I wonder if this
technique would
work for my problem
I never thought
of that!