Advice from Presentation Zen By Garr Reynolds:
- Make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them.
- No more than 6 words on a slide
- Don’t use cheesy images
- No transitions, spins, or dissolves
- Create a written document
- put up slide
- trigger an emotion reaction in the audience
- image and words are associated together
Questions to ask yourself when thinking about your presentation:
- How much time do I have?
- What’s the venue like?
- What time of day?
- Who is the audience?
- What’s their background?
- What do they expect of me (us)?
- Why was I asked to speak?
- What do I want them to do?
- What visual medium is most appropriate for this particular situation and audience?
- What is the story here?
- What is my absolutely central point?
Two questions: what is my point? what does it matter? (why should the audience care?) Can it pass the elevator question?
3 parts to my presentation: my slides, my notes, and my handouts
Steps:
- brainstorming
- grouping and identifying the core
- Story boarding off the computer
- story boarding in the slide/sorter/light table view
Concepts of the Zen aesthetic
simplicity
naturalness
elegance
suggestive rather than the descriptive
naturalness
empty space
stillness, tranquility
eliminating the nonessential
