Creating effective slides: Design, Construction, and Use in Science
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2013
- A lecture given by Jean-luc Doumont on April 4, 2013 - Clark Center Stanford Univeristy
Those of us who frequently attend presentations probably agree that most slides out there are ineffective, often detracting from what presenters are saying instead of enhancing their presentation. Slides have too much text for us to want to read them, or not enough for us to understand the point. They impress us with colors, clip art, and special effects, but not with content. As a sequence of information chunks, they easily create a feeling of tedious linearity. Based on Dr Doumont's book, Trees, maps, and theorems about "effective communication for rational minds," this lecture will discuss how to create more effective slides. Building on three simple yet solid principles, it will establish what (not) to include on a slide and why, how to optimize the slide's layout to get the message across effectively, and how to use slides appropriately when delivering the presentation.
- Get your audience to / pay attention to / understand / be able to act upon/ a message
- If you have to make a presentation at 1 o’clock and it is 9 in the morning, forget about slides
- A template is not a logo and a footer and a blue band that wastes so much space on top of that, a template is a way to specify where the content should come and how the content should look once it comes there. That means as long as you don’t have content, there should be nothing
- Don’t put the logo on each page but only on the first and latest page
- A wonderful test of readability: print your own slides before you give the talk [on handouts] six per pages
- Using a laser pointer hinders you of impressing the audience with your body
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-With each slide, convey one message. State the message verbally (subject, verb), develop it visually.
-Be concise, both verbally and visually.
-Using a laser pointer hinders you of impressing the audience with your body.
-Preparation: practice your presentation at least once without your slides. (Imagine just before starting [the talk] your computer dies: would you have been able to give the talk? If yes: you are a speaker, if no: you are a museum guide).
The Jean Luc Doumont three laws :
1. Adapt to your audience
2. Maximize the signal / noise ration
3. Use effective redundancy
The "must ask" questions before giving a presentation are
1. Who is coming
2. How many people
3. What kind of people
4. What do they want from me
5. What do we want from them
6. How much time will I be speaking
7. Which is the room of the presentation
Lastly, use the title area for communicating the message of the slide (32').
P.S Why not to use a laser pointer on 50'
Wonderful presentation! Mr. Doumont theatrical style is funny and engaging. And the information very useful!
Amazing lecture by Prof. Jean-Luc Doumont😍
Wow, so much great information in this presentation. I've got this bookmarked.
Thank you so much for this insightful and useful talk.
Time is always a pressure factor during any presentation ... usually we only have 30 min maximum to present anything ..
but stills nice and clear advices thank you for posting
Excellent, Jean-Luc ... what a pity that we do not have you visiting us again at PUC in Chile
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot and wish I can contribute to the great cause, one slide at a time...😁
This should be the first video that pops when you search "How to make slides"
Excellent advice!
This was an amazing presentation, huge respect!
Message wasn't clear, increase your signal-to-noise ratio.
The problem in many organizations is that the corporate communication department creates an awfully cluttered template with a big logo, a legalese blurb that takes precious space on the slides, and an awkward colored bar for the title. Then you have to struggle to fit content on remaining space, because using the ugly template is mandatory.
amazing!!
thought-provoking video...
If you are interested in learning more about this topic, I created a course called Expert Presenter which covers the creation of effective science slides along with how to present scientific information. For general information on better presentations and more effective communication you can listen to the free podcast The Public Speaker.
i really wanted to look at his promoted facebook, but i couldnt find it :(
I love the content and the delivery of this presentation!
But.... if you close your eyes, I hear Klaus from "American Dad"
I was forced to sit through this in one of my college lectures and that's all I could think of haha.
That was wonderful! I'm so tired of seeing powerpoint presentations that are just plain RUDE to the audience
Preaching by example, as Prof Doumont does, goes a long way
I think a big key step is knowing what you're talking about
wonderful :)
why is this video blurred?
It's eye wash to many veteran speakers. Nice talk.
I would like the video with subtitles (English of course)
+Gomaster Great! Let me know when you've finished transcribing the entire video!
I found that slides as "notes to yourself" is actually not a bad idea, for lectures (as opposed to conference presentations). I do not project them, but they help in planning the blackboard, force me to break up the material into digestible pieces, and can be handed out as pdf to the students later as study help.
shout out to all the um students who need to write the report for tonight
watching this for virology :0
He looks vaguely like Christoph Waltz..
No one gives true secrets of them. There are lots of professional tricks he used to design these slides but none of them mentioned. Such as: perception, color palettes, character types and sizes, places he put figures, writings, and many more. Good presentation. Probably you will be better after this presantation. But probably, still you will design bad slides.
I attended his workshop lately and he did mention a lot of the things you mentioned here. It is a 7 hours workshop and can't be covered in 90 mins video :)
Focus on One slide one message
Practice presentation without Slides
Put only needed information in each slide
Nothing is better than anything on slide
So selective with your information
Keep removing unnecessary information and reward yourself for that 😂
well in several areas i do NOT agree... e.g. If there is a bullet you dont want - well get to know PowerPoint before using it.. the idea of making the bullet "invisible" is just stupid - remove the formatting that brings the bullet... like with every tool it is not the tool but the fool trying to use it without knowledge...
It's very easy to Show bad slides - but why not give students EASY TO FOLLOW rules for good-to.read.and.-understand slides, like. not more than 4 bullets, max 6 words per bullett etc etc... much scientific talk with pretty small extract for the listener (besides the really good presentation skills.. but again: the recommendations are pretty General... ) PPT can be a Blessing or a curse - like a car you are driving - depends whether you can or cannot drive a car properly ;-)