Just a follow-up to my last post. There are a lot of books out there that have some great tips on improving your presentations. Here are some good places to start:
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
- Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck: and How you can make them Better
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
And some awesome online resources:
- Presentation Zen – the blog
- 5 Rules for More Effective Presentations by Michael Hyatt
- An Introvert’s Guide to Better Presentations by Matt Haughey
- 10 Simple Tips for Creating Better-looking Presentations by Wouter Walmink
- 10 tips on how to make slides that communicate your idea, from TED’s in-house expert by Aaron Weyenberg
What books, blogs, or other stuff would you add? Please add em in the comments!
I have no artistic talent, so I really need things that break techniques down into clear, granular rules and explain them with concrete language. Things I have found helpful in this regard:
Ned Potter’s presentations on slide design; http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/5-easy-way-to-create-fabulous-slides in particular
Google’s new Material Design spec is my new jam – http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html – does a brilliant job of combining concrete rules with theoretical principles (plus has a color palette, with hex codes!)
_The Non-Designer’s Design Book_ – exactly what it says on the tin
Tools that tell me what font pairings and color schemes would be good, like http://www.typegenius.com/ and http://design-seeds.com/
I am never, ever, going to be the person with boldly creative slides that make you go “wow, I’ve never seen that before and it’s awesome”. But tools like this let me maintain a level of professionalism I’m happy with, despite the aforementioned lack of artistic talent. Yay!
Awesome, Andromeda – these are great additions. Thanks!
Thank you! Timely resources for a workshop I’m resurrecting for next week.
Yay for timely resources! You are welcome 🙂