This document provides guidance on designing effective bullet-point-proof presentations. It recommends focusing on engagement, telling a clear story, using pacing and sequencing, limiting each slide to one point, using less text and white space, choosing relevant images, ensuring font size is large enough, questioning if bullet points are needed, and using free online tools and resources for images, fonts, colors and inspiration. The document also describes two activities for workshop participants - thinking about engagement and storytelling, and doing a group activity to storyboard and design sample presentation slides.

1. bullet-point-proof
presentations
Michelle Dalton
UCD Library
slideshare.com/mishdalton @mishdalton

2. today is about
#1 talking
#2 doing
#3 discussing

3. some caveats

4. design is subjective

5. design is subjective
very

6. trying
something
different

7. Activity #1

8. think about…
some things to

9. #1 engagement
#2 content

10. what story
are you
trying to
tell?

11. pacing,
sequencing &
storyboarding

12. one
point
per
slide

13. less is
more

14. templates?

15. white space

16. colour
colour

17. (ir)relevant
images

18. don’t worry that
your font size is
too large…

19. don’t worry that
your font size is
too large…
because it
isn’t!!

20. there are more
fonts than

21. •do you really
•need those
•bullet points?

22. using pdf

23. useful
resources

24. “wrappers”
powerpoint
prezi
canva
haikudeck
google docs (slides)
emaze
slidedog

25. images / fonts etc.
ccsearch.org
pixabay
freepik.com
dafont
1001freefonts
fontsquirrel

26. colour schemes
coolors
pictaculous
color hunter
colourlovers
design-seeds
adobe color cc

27. color hunter

28. inspiration

34. workshop

35. Activity #2
Groups of 3-4
Choose an abstract
Storyboard & design some
slides
Time = 15 mins
Debrief :)

36. What’s your story?
Engagement?
# of slides?
Sequencing?
Spacing/Layout?

37. What was new?
What was difficult?
What was easy?
Hint:
There are no right answers :-)

38. try something
different

39. questions?
michelle.dalton@ucd.ie
@mishdalton
slideshare.com/mishdalton
thank you :-)