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Making your slides lighter
The document discusses the concept of creating lighter presentation slides by reducing text and enhancing visual elements such as colors, borders, and alignment. It emphasizes that heavy slides can demotivate the audience and proposes methods to maintain content while making slides visually appealing. Ultimately, it advocates for clarity and simplicity in design to convey essential messages effectively.
Making your slides lighter
- 1. Making your slides LIGHTER byAlexei Kapterev
- 2. The audience oftencomplains about “heavy slides”
- 3. Mostly meaning bythat “slides with too much text”
- 4. ”Heavy slides” demotivatefrom the start. Nobody even thinks about reading them!
- 5. The one proposed cureis to remove some text — but what if we can’t? Can we still make the slide “lighter”?
- 6. YesW E CA N
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- 8. • Colours • Borders •Decorations • Alignment lines • Etc. LIKE…
- 9. EXAMPLE Let me giveyou an
- 10. What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team? 10 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring)
- 11. What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team? 10 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) It is quite heavy, right? Let’s try to make it lighter.
- 12. What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team? 11 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) For one thing, we don’t need that background.
- 13. 12 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team?
- 14. 12 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team? Ahh… Can you feel it? White is light.
- 15. 13 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team?
- 16. 13 Identify)Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in)Defining) Survey)Objectives • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* • Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports Survey)Monitoring) What%other%benefits%are%provided%by%the% National%Team? Lighter still
- 17. 14 • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports • Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered%issues% • Format*% • Response%format* What)other)benefits)are) provided)by)the)National)Team? Identify) Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in) Defining)Survey) Objectives Survey) Monitoring)
- 18. 15 • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports • Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered% issues% • Format*% • Response%format* What)other)benefits)are) provided)by)the)National)Team? Identify) Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in) Defining)Survey) Objectives Survey) Monitoring)
- 19. 16 What)other)benefits)are) provided)by)the)National)Team? Identify) Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in) Defining)Survey) Objectives Survey) Monitoring) • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports • Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered% issues% • Format*% • Response%format*
- 20. 17 What)other)benefits)are) provided)by)the)National)Team? Identify) Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in) Defining)Survey) Objectives Survey) Monitoring) • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports • Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered% issues% • Format*% • Response%format*
- 21. 17 What)other)benefits)are) provided)by)the)National)Team? Identify) Sample)Size) Approach Questionnaire) Development Assistance)in) Defining)Survey) Objectives Survey) Monitoring) • State%modeling%for% trip%generation%or% activity%modeling% • Travel%demands% forecasting%or%Long% range%plans •Sample%size% • Stratification%of% sample% • Missing%data% approaches% • Coverage%issues • Oversee%the% Integration%of%% sample%and% questions%%into%the% national%program,%% • Data%progress% reports • Consider%role%of% respondent%and% interview%mode% • Cognitive%issues% • Cognitive%testing% • Administered% issues% • Format*% • Response%format* Ok, now it is boring.
- 22. What other benefitsare provided by the National Team? Identify Sample Size Approach Questionnaire Development Assistance in Defining Survey Objectives Survey Monitoring • State modeling for trip generation or activity modeling • Travel demands forecasting or Long range plans • Sample size • Stratification of sample • Missing data approaches • Coverage issues • Oversee the Integration of sample and questions into the national program, • Data progress reports • Consider role of respondent and interview mode • Cognitive issues • Cognitive testing • Administered issues • Format* • Response format* Let’s add some pictures!
- 23. What other benefitsare provided by the National Team? Identify Sample Size Approach Questionnaire Development Assistance in Defining Survey Objectives Survey Monitoring • State modeling for trip generation or activity modeling • Travel demands forecasting or Long range plans • Sample size • Stratification of sample • Missing data approaches • Coverage issues • Oversee the Integration of sample and questions into the national program, • Data progress reports • Consider role of respondent and interview mode • Cognitive issues • Cognitive testing • Administered issues • Format* • Response format* And, finally.
- 24. Does it looklighter to you? As a bonus, it has more meaning!
- 25. It’s not justabout text. You can also remove: • Bright, dark, heavy colours • Heavy borders • Other “visual syntax”
- 26. Omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams Check him out, he’s a great industrial designer “
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