Craft Your Story Visually

Lessons From Presentation Zen
19 April 2011 Craft Your Story Visually

First: Step Away From The Computer. photo by Nantaskart! - 2005

Second: Who Is Your Audience? photo by Carbon NYC - 2008

Third: What Role Are You Playing?

What is your story?

Ideas. Concepts. Not Slides.

Architecture: Story Board Text Text Design 2 Good Graph Design 3 Text Text Storyboard Images Design Principle 1 Cluttered Image Bad Graph Text Story Frames Title & Intro Design 4

Design Tips: Four Visual Principles

1. Simplify

Avoid animation & sound

2. Signal-to-Noise

3. “White” Space

4. Rule of Thirds

Before & After

Top Global Web Properties

Top Global Web Properties Web Properties Visitors Microsoft 508,000 Google 494,000 Yahoo 476,000 Wikipedia 164,000 New York Times 68,000

2009 Flood
Initial estimated damage at $125 million
Three deaths
27 commercial shellfish areas closed
8,000 residents in seven water systems told by officials to boil their water

2009 Flood
Estimate $125 million
Three deaths
27 shellfish areas closed
8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water

In A Word: Simplify

Resources
PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog)
PresentationZen (book, Amazon )
The Rule of Thirds
Life After Death With Powerpoint ( youtube )

Credits Share&Share Alike; Attribution; Non-Commercial Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto: How to Succeed In Business, Tomatoes Gates via Flickr ; World’s Worst via Flickr Some materials developed by Meg McGough in 2009 Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/ @kegill

Craft Your Story Visually

by Kathy Gill on Apr 19, 2011

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