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Best Practices for Creating Slide Decks
The document provides tips for designing effective slide decks. It recommends using widescreen slides, limiting content to one main idea per slide, including stories and examples to engage audiences, using consistent typography and font sizes that are easy to read, incorporating high-quality images while keeping text legible, and implementing simple designs without overcrowding slides with text or fancy elements. The key is focusing on the audience experience and message through clarity, visual hierarchy and white space.
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- 1. BEST PRACTICES FOR DESIGNINGSLIDE DECKS
- 2. LAYOUT & DESIGNTIPS
- 3. Use wide screenslides More space! (16:9)
- 4. Don’t include yourwhole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read. Don’t include your whole presentation on one slide. Your audience didn’t come to read.
- 5. Planning the presentation •Start with the takeaway • What do you want your audience to remember, feel, or ACT upon? • Then focus on • WHO is your audience • Talk to someone in your audience for feedback • WHY do they care • Your challenge: How to get them to care • STORIES • " We all love stories. We're born for them. Stories affirm who we are. We all want affirmations that our lives have meaning. And nothing does a greater affirmation than when we connect through stories.” - Andrew Stanton • Make your message stick • simplicity • unexpectedness • concreteness • credibility • emotion
- 6. Planning the presentation •Start with the takeaway • What do you want your audience to remember, feel, or ACT upon? • Then focus on • WHO is your audience • Talk to someone in your audience for feedback • WHY do they care • Your challenge: How to get them to care • STORIES • " We all love stories. We're born for them. Stories affirm who we are. We all want affirmations that our lives have meaning. And nothing does a greater affirmation than when we connect through stories.” - Andrew Stanton • Make your message stick • simplicity • unexpectedness • concreteness • credibility • emotion No….
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- 8. It’s too muchinformation to take in
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- 10. document slide Try tostick to one idea per slide
- 11. If including multiplepoints on one slide, keep bullets limited in length and quantity • Point one • Point two • Point three
- 12. If your slideis starting to get long…
- 13. break it upinto multiple slides. If your slide is starting to get long…
- 14. COPY & PASTE supportingpoints into a new slide
- 15. LIKE THIS! COPY &PASTE supporting points into a new slide
- 16. So your audiencestays with you LIKE THIS! COPY & PASTE supporting points into a new slide
- 17. As long asthe essential information is included, it doesn’t matter how long you slide deck is
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- 19. It calls attentionto the important points you’re making Use white space
- 20. Your slide design DOESNOT NEED to be fancy
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- 22. Use a consistentcolor palette
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- 24. Don’t use morethan 1 or 2 fonts
- 25. Easy to readtypefaces… Serif Sans serifOR
- 26. Decorative ScriptOR Not aseasy to read…
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- 29. Vary font weights toemphasize key takeaways and sizes
- 30. Make sure textis large enough to read ESPECIALLY FOR SMALLER SCREENS
- 31. Recommended font sizes* Headertext - 90pt Body text - 70pt
- 32. Recommended font sizes* *Thinkof these as a baseline. Adjust sizes as needed to fit your content! Header text - 90pt Body text - 70pt
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- 34. Images can befull size…
- 35. or only part ofthe slide.
- 36. Always make surethe text is readable on full screen images.
- 37. Always make surethe text is readable on full screen images. Here are a few ways to do that…
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- 39. Choose an imagewith plenty of white space
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- 41. Add the texton top of a solid colored shape
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- 43. 1. Add acolored rectangle on top of the image Reduce the opacity of the rectangle so the image peeks through, but the text is legible 2.
- 44. FIND GREAT PHOTOSAT unsplash.com pexels.com
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- 46. You DO NOTneed to be a designer to implement these tips!
- 47. TO MAKE YOURSLIDE DECKS, USE PowerPoint Keynote Google Slides
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- 49. FIND PRE-MADE, EDITABLETEMPLATES AT creativemarket.com canva.com
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