A simple slideshow meant to highlight some slide design ideals. I presented this to two audiences while employed by UCSB to assist others in their goal of presentation improvement.

1. Basic Slide Design
Bren School, UCSB

2. Remember why you are doing this

3. There are not really any rules to slide design

4. There are not really any rules to slide design
Here are some rules...

5. Avoid the bullet

6. Avoid the bullet
they lead to boring...
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7. Purpose of the Methodology
• Tracking key environmental issues across their
product supply chains.
• Provide Patagonia decision-makers with a
condensed metric that indicates impact of product
water use through a rigorous, repeatable, and
transparent process.
• Product water footprints are influenced by the
production methods, production locations and
water productivities of the supply chain.

8. Tracking key environmental
issues across their product
supply chains.
PROJECT
PURPOSE OF THE METHODOLOGY
DATE CLIENT
MAY 19, 2009 PATAGONIA

9. Tracking key environmental
issues across their product
supply chains.
Product water footprints are influenced by the
production methods, production locations and
water productivities of the supply chain.
PROJECT
PURPOSE OF THE METHODOLOGY
DATE CLIENT
MAY 19, 2009 PATAGONIA

10. Tracking key environmental
issues across their product Provide Patagonia decision-makers with a
supply chains. condensed metric that indicates impact of
product water use through a rigorous,
repeatable, and transparent process.
Product water footprints are influenced by the
production methods, production locations and
water productivities of the supply chain.
PROJECT
PURPOSE OF THE METHODOLOGY
DATE CLIENT
MAY 19, 2009 PATAGONIA

12. Know your presentation constraints and equipment

13. Know your presentation constraints and equipment
Avoid cheesy clipart

14. Hopefully this purple haze is gone by defense time
Know your presentation constraints and equipment
Avoid cheesy clipart

15. FONT CHOICE

16. Gill Sans Times New Roman
FONT CHOICE
Courier New Helvetica Neue

17. “Find out the age of the oldest person in
your audience and divide it by two. That’s
your optimal font size.”

19. FONT SIZE
FONT SIZE
FONT SIZE
FONT SIZE

21. CONTRAST

23. YELLOW
BLUE

24. Simultaneous Contrast

25. COLOR WHEEL
Complementary Colors
Analogous Colors

28. Create white space

29. A woman may not be
feminine all the time...

30. 65.3 mg 65.3 mg 60.1 mg 35.7 mg 12.8 mg 5.4 mg
65.3 mg 60.1 mg 35.7 mg 12.8 mg 5.4 mg 2.9 mg
60.1 mg 35.7 mg 12.8 mg 5.4 mg 2.9 mg 2.9 mg
35.7 mg 12.8 mg 5.4 mg 2.9 mg 2.9 mg 1.3 mg
12.8 mg 5.4 mg 2.9 mg 2.9 mg 1.3 mg 1.3 mg

31. Draw the viewer’s
-- Presentation Zen http://www.presentationzen.com

32. Draw the viewer’s attention
-- Presentation Zen http://www.presentationzen.com

33. Split complex ideas across slides

34. (1)

35. (1)
•Obtained from remote sensing data
•Assumed as 1 meter depth for ease of calculation

36. (1)

37. (1)
•Theoretical ratio of chlorophyll
a to unit mass of alga
•Ratio varies greatly based on
season, location, composition
•0.01 is scientifically acceptable
average (Reynolds, 2006)
(Montagnes et al,1994)

38. Images are absorbed easier than text
-- Architecture 2030: http://www.architecture2030.org

39. Forms of Energy
Types:
• Energy of motion (translation, rotation, vibration, oscillation)
• Energy of position (in force fields)
1 Mechanical Energy:
a) Gravitational potential energy
b) Kinetic energy
2 Internal Energy (Heat)
3 Electromagnetic Energy:
a) Electricity
b) Electromagnetic radiation
4 Chemical potential energy (molecular bonds)
5 Nuclear potential energy (nuclear bonds)
Energy, Technology & the Environment – Winter 2010 – Session 1

40. The Forms of Energy
mechanical energy
internal energy
electromagnetic energy
chemical potential energy
nuclear potential energy

41. Use your own photos

42. Use your own photos
hi AECOM!

43. OPACITY

44. OPACITY

45. •break these rules

46. •break these rules
you are what makes the presentation