Adding Visuals to
Your Presentations
CCR Colloquium
19 March 2008

Presentations are audiovisual
(like it or not)

How do we prepare?
Intellectual Audio Visual
90%
8%
2%

How do we react?
Yawwwn... Hmm... Wow!!
90%
8%
2%

Visual Design
adds
C T
PA
I M

Slides = Slides
Documents = Documents

It’s better to
do each well
than to try and do
them both at once.

Bullet points don’t bore people.
People speaking from bullet
points bore people.

There is no excuse for clip art.

A typical academic slide
• Lots of textually dense
bullets and long passages
• Repetitive points
(instead of reinforcing)
• Weak graphics,
subordinated to text
• Assembled as an
afterthought

Be Memorable