This document provides tips for creating effective presentations. It emphasizes focusing each slide on a single key idea, using visuals like images instead of heavy text, and employing good design principles for slide layout. Proper use of fonts, whitespace, and visual hierarchy helps audience understanding. The document cautions against long blocks of text that prevent audiences from listening to the presenter. Effective presentations require simplicity and clarity in both visuals and speaking.

1. A few keys to
a good talk..
Steven Hamblin

4. What is the problem?
What is the solution?
Why does it matter?

5. Kill your darlings.

8. Visual Design in Science

9. Design is thinking made visual.
-Saul Bass

10. Stop making slides that are

11. FULL
OF
TEXT.
Stop making slides that are

12. This has the visual impact of alphabet soup.

13. simplicity is not easy

14. 3-5 seconds
to grasp the slide’s point

16. Deal with

17. one

18. idea

19. at a time.

20. Deal with

21. Deal with
one

22. Deal with
one
idea

23. Deal with
one
idea
at a time.

24. Design 101

25. dynamic design

26. Use high
resolution images.

27. Seriously.

28. Informational Hierarchy
tells you where to look and what is important.
It deals with:
Font choice
Colour
size
placement
grouping
weight &
scale

29. Before & After
This is an
example of
great
informational
hierarchy

30. A little bit about fonts
1. Comic Sans - just don’t do it. Ever.
2. Don’t use more than two fonts.
3. Choose either a serif or sans serif font.
Don’t mix them.

31. About invisible lines:
Or here.
Our eyes like
it when there
is something
here.

32. About invisible lines:
Not here.

37. This is not good.

38. This
is
better.

39. Giving your talk

40. The audience is
there to hear you talk.

41. The audience is
there to hear you talk.

42. Not to watch you read a slide that is

43. FULL
OF
TEXT.
Not to watch you read a slide that is

44. Chilean Exports
• Fresh fruit leads Chile's export mix - Chile emerges as major supplier of fresh fruit to world
market due to ample natural resources, consumer demand for fresh fruit during winter
season in U.S. and Europe, and incentives in agricultural policies of Chilean government,
encouraging trend toward diversification of exports and development of nontraditional
crops - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report
• Chile is among the developing economies taking advantage of these trends, pursuing a
free market economy. This has allowed for diversification through the expansion of fruit
production for export, especially to the U.S. and Western Europe. Chile has successfully
diversified its agricultural sector to the extent that it is now a major fruit exporting nation.
Many countries view Chile's diversification of agriculture as a model to be followed.
• Meanwhile, the U.S. remains the largest single market for Chile's fruit exports. However,
increasing demand from the EC and Central and East European countries combined may
eventually surpass exports to the U.S., spurring further growth in Chile's exports.
• If you’ve read this far, your eyes probably hurt and you’ve been reading this tedious longwinded text instead of listening to me. I’m insulted- can’t you see I’m doing a presentation
up here? Look at me! Congratulations, however, on having such good eyesight.

45. “Quite Possibly The World’s Worst
PowerPoint Presentation Ever”

46. If they can’t hear you,
they can’t listen.

47. Don’t be a zombie.