The document provides tips for designing effective PowerPoint presentations, including using readable backgrounds, limiting the amount of text per slide, and formatting slides for proper readability from a distance. Key recommendations include avoiding textured backgrounds that interfere with readability, spreading content across multiple slides to avoid overcrowding, and following formulas for appropriate font and graphic sizes based on expected viewing distances. The document emphasizes clear, audience-focused design principles for presentations.

1. Principles of
PowerPoint Design
Tips on how to think like a designer
Readability Improvements
John Consultant
Presentation Skills
Fallon

2. Isn’t this the kind of slide
that you would like to
look at in a presentation
for an hour or more?
Bad Color Schemes

3. Backgrounds with Images
and small amount of text

4. Textured backgrounds may
interfere with the readability of the
text / images that may be on the
slide and disrupt the entire
message.
Textured Backgrounds

5. •People tend to put every word they are
planning to say on their PowerPoint slides
•This eliminates the need to memorize your
talk
•Ultimately this makes your slides over
crowded, wordy and boring
•You will lose your audience’s attention
before you even reach the bottom of your
first slide
Spread out content by adjusting the
paragraph spacing

6. 1. Stand Properly
2. Take a deep breath
Alignment… best is text to left

7. In learning to sing, your
first concern fending off
objects thrown from the
audience
Creating an order of importance

8. Grouping, not random

9. For text, use the formula--- font size times 2
This is the distance that the audience will be able
to see the font on the screen
Font Size 44 times 2 = 88 feet
For graphics (screen), use the formula--- screen size
times 8
This is the distance that the audience will be able
to see the graphics on the screen
Graphic (screen) size 6 ft. times 8 = 48 feet
Font / Graphic Size