Presentation for the February Design Interest Meetup in Newcastle upon Tyne. The theme of the night was presentations.

1. Vicky Teinaki
ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT
HER NEW SLIDEDECK
“Everything you
always wanted
to know about
presentations* *
* BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK„
*

2. WARNING
double entendres ahead.

3. “What is Sodomy
Death By Powerpoint?”

5. http://www.infocus.com/labs/all/visual-communication-collaboration/worst-ppt-slide-contest-winners

6. Death to the slideument!

7. “What Are Sex Perverts
Are the Alternatives?”

8. LIVE DRAWING
e.g. Bill Verplank
Image from Johnny Holland

9. GOOD OL’ ORATORY
e.g. Bruce Sterling
Image from Johnny Holland

10. PREZI
e.g. Peter Morville

11. USING VISUAL AIDS
e.g. Jason Bruges

12. “How Long Is Too Long?”
*
** THIS WASN’T IN THE MOVIE, BUT C’MON!

13. It depends.
<20 minutes
(concentration falls off after 10)
Weinschenk, Susan (2012) 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People, New Riders, Washington.
Medina, John (2009) Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School, Pear Press.

14. TED
= 18 minutes

15. “Why Do Some Women
Have Trouble Reaching
an Orgasm Presentations
Fail While Others
Work?”

17. Misguided
Technical failures
Confused
Ill prepared….

19. “Are the Findings of
Doctors and Clinics Who
Do Sexual Research &
Experiments Accurate
all those studies
about what how to do
presentations useful?”

20. Nancy Duarte { PRESENTATION DESIGN } Garr Reynolds
INFOGRAPHICS VISUAL THINKING
Edward Tufte Dan Roam

22. “What Happens
During Ejaculation
Preparation for a
Presentation?”

25. Less is

26. OH HAI POST-ITS
(it’s about ideas)

27. Imagery
Cliches are a dime
a dozen like school
dinners: acceptable, but
only just.

28. Don’t just Google, buy or CC attribute

29. Like school dinners:
passable, but hardly
inspiring
NC-BY-CC by Dylaphant07 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylaphant07/373580686/

30. PRACTICE
MAKES
INCREDIBLE
AWESOME AMAZING

31. “Are Transvestites
Homosexuals Slidedecks
Powerpoints?”

36. “Does aphrodisiacs
‘One More Thing’ Really
Work?”

37. Have two natural ending points.
“…luckily, I’d embedded two natural places to end my talk. I
had an ending that made the talk complete and I stopped there.
What I didn’t have time to get to was the inspirational ending
that would have had them on their feet and screaming (well, they
did end up on their feet, they just weren’t screaming.)”
—Nancy Duarte on a talk that overran

38. Duarte, Nancy (2011) ‘Communicate Like MLK and Change the World’ http://blog.duarte.com/2011/01/communicate-like-mlk-
and-change-the-world/

39. http://www.fabulouslyfierce.com/shop/dont-panic-in-pink/

40. Apologies to Woody Allen,
fans of Woody Allen,
anyone who was insulted,
and anyone who is all of the
above.

41. Further Reading
Nancy Duarte Slide:ology (2008), Resonate (2011)
Garr Reynolds Presentation Zen (2007)
Edward Tufte Beautiful Evidence (2006), Envisioning Information (1990)
Dan Roam Back of the Napkin (2009)
Susan Weinschenk 100 Things Every Presenter
Needs to Know About People
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