The document provides tips for creating effective presentations, emphasizing the importance of unique slide designs and avoiding default themes. It advises against overwhelming the audience with too much information, suggesting one main detail per slide for clarity. Additionally, it highlights the significance of readability, appropriate font choices, and proper image handling to maintain a professional appearance.

1. A Few Secrets for Making a
Presentation That Doesn’t
Suck!
A Few Secrets To Making A
Presentation That Doesn’t Suck...

2. 1) Built in Theme
This just
makes it
BORING.

3. Viewers will immediately think you haven't put any
time and effort into the making of the slide.
That Guy Must Be Lazy!

4. Make your slide
unique, and take
time doing so.
Wow! That Slide is So Unique! It
Must’ve Taken A Long Time To
Make!

5. Unless you
want to
make a
presentation
faster than
The Flash.

6. Choosing one of the default themes should be
used ONLY as a last resort if all else fails.

7. 2) Too Much Info
You're giving a presentation, NOT a
document.
Blah Blah
+ Blah
=Meh

8. Don’t vomit every bit of
information out onto your slides.

9. Keep one main detail per slide.
Detail

10. Keep the data short, and relevant. This helps
your audience from skipping ahead of any
important facts buried in the flood of
insignificant words.

11. If your slide takes longer than 15 seconds for the
audience to comprehend, it’s too complex.

12. 3) Readability
Here, we have a really
captivating image of
space, but it’s laying
waste to the readability
of our text. Even if we
make the text bold and
try different color
variations, it still comes
up short. Outlining
tends to do best in
these circumstances if
you don’t want to do
anything better. This slide
has a lot of
info.

13. You can create a color bar
behind the text which will
increase the readability by
a great deal, while still
keeping a simple yet
stylish look.

15. 4) Text
The biggest
mistake that people
make with fonts in
presentations is
assuming that the first
three font styles listed
above are boring. This
causes them to jump to
something similar to
the font on the bottom
because it feels more
unique and interesting.

16. The first three aren't boring…
They're safe.

17. Never be afraid of standard-looking fonts.
Using them can help ensure that your design
remains inside the realm of clean and
professional and away from scattered and
unorganized.

18. 5) Squash and Stretch Photos
NEVER squash or stretch your pictures to fill
the space of your presentation.

19. This makes it look BAD.
That’s a
slug if
you
didn’t
know.

20. You don’t always need to fill in every blank
space on your slide.
Just don’t
leave it this
blank.

21. If you want to enlarge it or shrink the
picture, do it in equal proportions.

22. Try not to get photos blurry either by
enlarging it too much.