This document summarizes key points from a talk by Garr Reynolds on improving presentations. It recommends engaging the audience with clarity, quality content, and significance. Preparation, design, and delivery are keys to success. Presenters should use simplicity with images, whiteboard text, and handouts instead of reading slides or including too much data.

1. HOLA AMIGOS!
THE ART OF PRESENTATION
Percepts from Garr Reynolds talk at Google

2. BAD PRESENTATIONS
can kill
GOOD IDEAS
How NOT to suck at presenting your ideas

3. –Garr Reynolds
“Humans are completely incapable of reading and comprehending
text on a screen and listening to a speaker at the same time.
Therefore, lots of text (almost any text!), and long, complete sentences
are bad, Bad, BAD.”

4. ENGAGEYOUR AUDIENCE

5. BUT NOT LIKETHIS!

6. LISTENERS DEMAND…

8. < = >

9. Clarity
Quality Content
+
+
Significance
=

10. KEYSTO SUCCESS
Preparation
Design
Delivery

11. NEVER START WITH YOUR LAPTOP
–Benjamin Franklin“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”

12. Use this instead

13. Rough Sketch
(Whiteboard text)
Image
(Slides)

14. USE HANDOUTS
DO NOT PUT TOO MUCH DATA

15. USE HANDOUTS

16. IT’S
ALL
ABOUT
SIMPLICITY

17. #1
WE’RE ALL Designers

18. #2
DON’T read your slides

19. #3
is a tool. Period.

20. GRACIAS