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- 1. Lunch & Learn November 12, 2014 Grab some lunch and join us for our first company-wide “Lunch & Learn”
- 2. Improving communication through good design thoug ht ful planning by Ehsan Noursalehi
- 3. Illinois Launch Everything I know, I learned from presenting to Al Goldstein
- 4. Alright big shot, so you want to present your idea huh? You need to prepare.
- 5. 1. Know the venue. The venue dictates everything.
- 6. 2. Don’t make me think. It is your responsibility to do the hard work.
- 7. My Awesome Self Explanatory Graph • This took my whole team a few weeks to make • I spent 30 secs talking about the graph, without telling you anything about how we made it • I didn’t label the axis • I didn’t tell you why to care about this graph • Only my team understands why this graph matters
- 9. Be a salesman. Assume I know nothing. No one knows what you know. Tell us why to care.
- 10. not 3. Visual Aids Are for Notes
- 11. The Standard PowerPoint Slide • It sucks that the default PowerPoint style is so bad for effective verbal communication • PowerPoint makes it to easy to just type up your notes as bullets on the screen instead of figuring out what your big idea is • You have to put in real effort to figure out what you are really trying to say
- 12. The Standard PowerPoint Slide • It sucks that the default PowerPoint style is so bad for effective verbal communication • PowerPoint makes it to easy to just type up your notes as bullets on the screen instead of figuring out what your big idea is • You have to put in real effort to figure out what you are really trying to say notes the big idea
- 13. Notes Visual Aid The Standard PowerPoint Slide Know what you want to communicate • It sucks that the default PowerPoint style is so bad for effective verbal communication • PowerPoint makes it to easy to just type up your notes as bullets on the screen instead of figuring out what your big idea is • You have to put in real effort to figure out what you are really trying to say vs.
- 15. Notes Notes
- 16. 16 Great Recession $134 Billion Dodd Frank | Card Act | Bank Regulation
- 17. 4. Gestalt Principles Psychological principles of human perception. An intro to similarity and proximity.
- 18. Similarity Things that are similar are perceived to be more related than things that are dissimilar
- 21. Title for this Section Here is some content that explains what I am trying to say. Notice how it is clearly communicated by similarity that this means something different than those bullets to the right My Idea This is really just some filler content. You don’t have to read it. Stop reading it already. Here are some bullets over here. See how the similarity of these three bullets makes it obvious that they are more related than the content to the left side? Similarity: The Gestalt Principal that things that are similar are perceived to be more related than things that are dissimilar This is really just some filler content. You don’t have to read it. Stop reading it already. Stop wasting your time!
- 22. Proximity Things that are close to one another are perceived to be more related than things that are spaced farther apart
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- 25. Testing Proximity Testing Proximity A sample body of text I want you to read in detail. Not really, just kidding. Up to you. A sample body of text I want you to read in detail. Not really, just kidding. Up to you. A sample body of text I want you to read in detail. Not really, just kidding. Up to you. A sample body of text I want you to read in detail. Not really, just kidding. Up to you. Testing Proximity Testing Proximity
- 26. 5. Sketch First
- 28. 6. Make it simple
- 29. 7. Make it simpler
- 30. Improving communication through good design thoug ht ful planning by Ehsan Noursalehi