What does the Research say?
The stuff that underpins
Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations
Geoff Brown & Viv McWaters

What we see ...

What if ‘business-as-usual’ in presentation design
was applied to the real world?
We would see this ...

Instead of this ...

2 Parts

Part 1 : The Dans
Dan
Dan
Dan

Part 2 : The Johns
Dr John

Story

Story Visually Wired

Story

What can we learn from Dan?

What can we learn from Dan?
Pink
Dan

Whole-Minded approach

Emotions

What can we learn from Dan?
Dan Pink
Roam
Dan

But I’m not visual!

Pictures like these …

What can we learn from Dan?
Dan Pink Dan Roam
Heath
Dan

cky
sti

to overcome …

Curse of
Knowledge

So, Keep it …

Simple

?

Story

Story
Find the Core

Story
Paint a Picture
Find the Core

Story
Emotional
Find the Core Paint a Picture

Story
Curse of
Knowledge

Visually Wired

What we learn from John?
The Doctor

There is hope …

Professor John Sweller’s Rule
We cannot listen & read at the
same time

10%
We remember 10% of what we hear

65% We remember 10% of what we
hear

So, if you want

Apply these …

Professor John Sweller’s Rule
We cannot listen & read at the
same time

Remember this
picture …

Thankyou!
Part 1 Slides by Geoff Brown & Viv McWaters
Part 2 Slides some are adapted by Geoff Brown from Garr Reynolds – www.presentation.com
All images from iStockphoto & Google Images
Slides 3, 4, 5, 41, 42, 53-56 adapted from a Garr Reynolds slideshow - http://www.slideshare.net/garr/brain-rules-for-presenters