How to make good presentations

How To Make Good
Presentations
and how to make sure your audience
doesn’t fall asleep...

Ine Dehandschutter
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www.matuvu.nu

2012

Wednesday 11 July 12

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Hi,
I’m Ine,
a designer & photographer
@ matuvu


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I Learned A Thing.
Or 2...
(Which I want to share with you!)


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Most Made Remarks On
Bad Presentations

1. too much text,
2. reading of screen, boring
3. too complicated to understand
4. lack of preparation/practice
5. too much animation


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Basics


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Know Your Audience


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Outline Your Content


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Blahblahblah

Add The Story


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Add A Sauce Of Design


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Make It Sharable


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1/ Audience


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Know It Before
You Enter The Stage
It saves your day.


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2/ Outlines


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K.I.S.S
Keep it STRAIGHT & SIMPLE!


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Most Of Us Remember
Only 3 Things
So don’t try to fit in 30...


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1 Slide = 1 Idea
You’re giving a presentation,
you’re not handing out a document!


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The 10-20-30 Rule
Guy Kawasaki says:
10 slides, 20 minutes, 30 fontsize


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This Is A 72point
Fontsize
This is a 30 fontsize


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This Forces You To Think
In Billboards Terms
You’re giving a presentation,
you’re not handing out a document!


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Stick To Your Time
Always
If you get a 20min talk
prepare for 18.


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3/ The Story


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Structure Of A Story
beginning, middle, end vs tension


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Basically Your Story Needs:
1. a problem
2. a solution

inbeween some crises
and atleast 1 joke


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Use This Structure For Your Outline
It works faster


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The Joke Is Essential!
You can drop all the other stuff.


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On The Jokes
3 ways to integrate jokes:

1. Tell it
2. Integrate it in the slide + talk
3. Only show it in your slide
and have the audience notice it.


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Connect With The Audience
You you need to make a personal connection
with the audience.

A joke is a good way.
Asking interaction is another.
(Hard in Belgium!)

Add eye contact, don’t read your slides


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4/ Design


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Use A Comprehensive Structure
Make sure people ‘get’ the underlying structure
through your design (same titles, same structure)


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Align!

Make sure everything is aligned the same way.


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STRONG
Soft

Contrast
Use contrasting slides.
What works on your computer doesn’t on projector


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Add A Nice Touch
Not Only

Arial
Helvetica
Times New Roman

Use 1 Or 2 Personal Fonts
It shows emotion.
Use it for your titles.


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Go Big!!!

Use Big Fonts
Take the age of oldest person of the audience
and devide it by 2 = min. fontsize


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Drop The Bullets!
Only place where to use it:
at the start or in the summary


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Use Images To Tell The Story
They add emotion to your story
iStockphotography.com, Flickr.com, Veer.com


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45%
Make Numbers Comprehensible
No need for complex graphs, use simplicity


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45%
Information Is Beautiful
Transform complex knowledge into simple stuff


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Drop The Animation
Use it scarcely.
It takes time in the making, and doesn’t add much.


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No To Animation

Drop The Animation
Use it scarcely.
It takes time in the making, and doesn’t add much.


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K.I.S.S
Keep it simple. Really simple.


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Yes To Subtle

K.I.S.S
Keep it simple. Really simple.


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5/ Share


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PR-aspect
Every presentation has a big PR purpose
for your company.

1. Tell who you are
2. Don’t overdo
3. Add share elements


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Start Slide
With clear info on your presentation
and who you are + links to sites


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End Slide
Small thank you + your name + contact info +
links to sites


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Twitter
If you have an internet savvy audience or it’s a key
conference: add your twitter name on all slides


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Share Afterwards
Share your presentation afterwards, make sure your
links are clickable. ( Check slideshare.com)


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Mistakes


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What Are The Biggest
Mistakes?
Too many words
No practice
Technical hassle
(bad internet connection,
missing adaptor)

Be prepared :)


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Recap...


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Remember
Know your audience
Outline the content
Add the story
Add a sauce of design
Share


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Rock Those Stages!


Thank You
Ine Dehandschutter

www.matuvu.nu
@matuvu
www.linkedin.com/in/matuvu

www.slideshare.com/matuvu


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