Save Our Slides: Presentation Design That Works
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 104
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 104
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Save Our Slides: Presentation Design That Works teaches how to craft slides that communicate effectively by using rules of good slide design.
Save Our Slides is the first undergraduate and professional text to articulate a detailed, systematic set of visual design rules for PowerPoint and to do so in a colorful, engaging way.
Save Our Slides provides strategies for:
- minimizing text use
- avoiding poor color combinations
- selecting appropriate clip-art
- working with photographs
- and more!
Introduction
A Crime Story
How It All Went So Very Wrong
A Few Simple Rules
Rule 1: Templates and Themes: Choose Wisely
Designer’s Notebook: Templates and Themes
Rule 2: Text: Reining in Wordiness
Exercise: The Joy of Keywording
Rule 3: Fonts: Use Sans Serif Typefaces
Designer’s Notebook: Fonts
Rule 4: Images: Keep It Classy
Rule 5: Color: High Contrast
Exercise: Putting It All Together
Rule 6: Animation: Easy Does It
FAQ: Animation
Rule 7: cApiTaLIzaTiOn: Dial It Back
FAQ: Capitalization
Presenter’s Checklist
Stand and Deliver
Body Talk
Hide and Seek
Video Victory
Auto In-correct
Beautiful Bookends
It’s Transition Time
Dr. William “Billy” Earnest is an Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He has Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught as an Assistant Instructor from 1997 until 2001. Not surprisingly, his doctoral work focused on the effectiveness of electronic slides as a communication medium.
From 2002 to 2005 he was on the faculty of UT’s prestigious McCombs School of Business, where he lectured in Business Communication. While there, he was nominated for a Texas Exes Outstanding Teaching Award.
Courses he has taught regularly include:
- Media and Professional Presentations
- Business Communication
- Persuasion
- Presentational Speaking
- Intercultural Communication
- Lying and Deception in Human Interaction
Billy hails from Wichita Falls, Texas, home of his Alma Mater, Midwestern State University. From 1990 to 1995, he was an Atlanta-based systems analyst, technical writer, and corporate trainer for Electronic Data Systems.
He and his 95-lb. ball of furry joy, Dylan D. Dawg, are proud to live in South Austin.
Save Our Slides: Presentation Design That Works teaches how to craft slides that communicate effectively by using rules of good slide design.
Save Our Slides is the first undergraduate and professional text to articulate a detailed, systematic set of visual design rules for PowerPoint and to do so in a colorful, engaging way.
Save Our Slides provides strategies for:
- minimizing text use
- avoiding poor color combinations
- selecting appropriate clip-art
- working with photographs
- and more!
Introduction
A Crime Story
How It All Went So Very Wrong
A Few Simple Rules
Rule 1: Templates and Themes: Choose Wisely
Designer’s Notebook: Templates and Themes
Rule 2: Text: Reining in Wordiness
Exercise: The Joy of Keywording
Rule 3: Fonts: Use Sans Serif Typefaces
Designer’s Notebook: Fonts
Rule 4: Images: Keep It Classy
Rule 5: Color: High Contrast
Exercise: Putting It All Together
Rule 6: Animation: Easy Does It
FAQ: Animation
Rule 7: cApiTaLIzaTiOn: Dial It Back
FAQ: Capitalization
Presenter’s Checklist
Stand and Deliver
Body Talk
Hide and Seek
Video Victory
Auto In-correct
Beautiful Bookends
It’s Transition Time
Dr. William “Billy” Earnest is an Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He has Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught as an Assistant Instructor from 1997 until 2001. Not surprisingly, his doctoral work focused on the effectiveness of electronic slides as a communication medium.
From 2002 to 2005 he was on the faculty of UT’s prestigious McCombs School of Business, where he lectured in Business Communication. While there, he was nominated for a Texas Exes Outstanding Teaching Award.
Courses he has taught regularly include:
- Media and Professional Presentations
- Business Communication
- Persuasion
- Presentational Speaking
- Intercultural Communication
- Lying and Deception in Human Interaction
Billy hails from Wichita Falls, Texas, home of his Alma Mater, Midwestern State University. From 1990 to 1995, he was an Atlanta-based systems analyst, technical writer, and corporate trainer for Electronic Data Systems.
He and his 95-lb. ball of furry joy, Dylan D. Dawg, are proud to live in South Austin.